Sentences with phrase «archaeologists do»

The problem is, even scientists and archaeologists don't know what our ancient ancestors ate.

Much as archaeologists do, astronomers must peel away the strata of time to unearth clues to the birth of galaxies.

And if archaeologists do turn up any fishy remains, she says, it's hard to know just what kind of fish it was.

Archaeologists do not excavate «facts»; they excavate material remains — city ruins, wall foundations and potsherds.

When an archaeologist does a dig at a site and finds a piece of broken pottery, what does he say?

I won't get into all that except to say that many other climate archaeologists did not and do not agree with his choice of proxies and still support the existence of a Little Ice Age and a Medieval Warm Period.

Not exact matches

The research can be exciting, but archaeologists need to be incredibly patient, as do most scientists.

What it's about: Archaeologist and professional swashbuckler Indiana Jones (played by Harrison Ford) is hired by the United States government to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis do.

mzh «I do not buy those archaeologist comes up with an approximate number and they say this piece of stone or bone is millions or zillions of years»

Did you know that whenever an Archaeologist has tried to disprove Bible details about history, the Archaeologists were proved wrong when they dug into details and searched?

We, of course, did not find any artifacts that said «King David» or King Solomon» but we discovered at the site signs of a social transformation the region underwent, including the construction of a large edifice in a plan known to archaeologists as «the four - room house» which is common in Israel but is rare to non-existent elsewhere.

The National Geographic Society, in a 1988 letter to the Institute for Religious Research, stated «Archaeologists and other scholars have long probed the hemisphere's past and the society does not know of anything found so far that has substantiated the Book of Mormon.»

However, little has been done since her work 60 years ago and there are now suggestions by archaeologist Bryant G Wood that she missed crucial pottery evidence and some radiocarbon dating that could point to a Joshua date.

Consider this... a person goes to college, gets a four year degree in archaeology (or some antiquities preservation analog); spends summers sifting through sand and rock and gravel, all the while taking graduate level classes... person eventually obtains the vaunted PhD in archaeology... then works his / her tail off seeking funding for an archeological excavation, with the payoff being more funding, and more opportunities to dig in the dirt... do you think professional archaeologists are looking hard for evidence of the Exodus on a speculative basis... not a chance... they know their PhD buys them nothing more than a job at Tel Aviv Walmart if they don't discover and publish... so they write grants for digs near established sites / communities, and stay employed sifting rock in culturally safe areas... not unless some shepard stumbles upon a rare find in an unexpected place do you get archeological interest and action in remote places... not at all surprising that the pottery and other evidence of the Exodus and other biblical events lie waiting to be discovered... doesn't mean not there... just not found yet...

While doing restorations at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a team of archaeologists removed a large marble structure that had been in place for nearly five centuries, hiding the surface of the «burial slab.»

Archaeologists of the future will excavate these dogs and assume we worshipped them, and maybe we do.

When I was little I wanted to be an archaeologist (as well as a White House telephone switch operator and dentist which makes perfect sense, don't you think?)

Was there any kid who, upon learning what an archaeologist was, didn't want to be one?

«Participants could dig with their hands in fish tanks filled with sand for artefacts such as coins and tiles as well as learning how to «bag» these finds exactly as archaeologists would do and even experiment in putting broken pieces back together.»

Findings in the new paper don't demonstrate that the Birka woman was a Viking warrior, writes archaeologist Judith Jesch in a Sept. 9 post on her Norse and Viking Ramblings blog.

Some archaeologists say that the study does not prove the scale of the British Beaker invasion, but agree that it is a major work that typifies how huge ancient - DNA studies are disrupting archaeology.

A: If you talked to other archaeologists, they would think that a lot of [underwater archaeologists] do this because we like to scuba dive and that we aren't trying to answer research questions.

«As a species we evolved the way we did as a result of living in very dynamic landscapes that selected for adaptability,» says archaeologist Geoff Bailey of the University of York in the UK, who along with Geoffrey King of the Paris Institute of Earth Physics in France has spent over 20 years amassing evidence for the theory.

She often wears a red T - shirt reading «Don't Shoot — I'm an Archaeologist» in more than a dozen languages.

David Anthony, an archaeologist at Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York, says this type of model doesn't match the complex linguistic and archaeological evidence.

Shelley Bolderson was scraping mud from a trowel one day in an Anglo - Saxon midden in St. Neots, United Kingdom, when she realized she didn't want to be an archaeologist any longer.

If you don't have hand axes, maybe you have fire,» says Michael Chazan, an archaeologist at the University of Toronto.

Surely archaeologists, geologists and palaeontologists have done their bit.

I remember when an archaeologist, who shall remain nameless, called underwater archaeology «that silly stuff you people do, bringing up amphoras.»

Archaeologists believed that the images at White Shaman were essentially unrelated, each depicting an individual ritual, and at first glance, the mural did seem chaotic: Swarms of indecipherable markings surrounded figures painted one on top of the other.

Herb Maschner, an Arctic archaeologist at the University of South Florida in Tampa, agrees and says the careful excavation methods and analysis serve as a good example of what archaeologists need to do to answer questions about ancient people living in central Alaska where the conditions for preserving bones and artifacts are «notoriously» bad.

«Archaeologists are aware of the importance of usewear analysis,» says Shen, «but it is time - consuming, and few researchers have actually done it.»

But all archaeologists agree that farming did not emerge until after people had begun settling in villages and populations had begun to increase.

Don't believe it, says archaeologist Steve Tuck from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

«I wouldn't be surprised if H. floresiensis or a closely related lineage was responsible for the Sulawesi artifacts,» says Harvard University archaeologist Christian Tryon, who did not participate in the new excavations.

Archaeologists would want to mount a rescue dig — exactly what anthropological geneticists are doing these days.

These new findings, published this week online by the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science, are an important key to the puzzle of how technology emerged as humans dispersed across the globe, says archaeologist Ofer Bar - Yosef at Harvard University, who, like Straus, did not participate in this study.

When asked if he looks askance at these amateur archaeologists, McManamon doesn't mince words.

For now, Gibson says, archaeologists can do little to help stop the destruction.

Only when the Ice Age ended 12,000 to 13,000 years ago and mammoths and other large prey vanished, archaeologists theorized, did humans systematically take up seashore living — eating shellfish, devising fishing gear, and venturing offshore in small boats.

But João Zilhão, an archaeologist at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom who has often tussled with White and other researchers over the evidence from the Grotte du Renne, says that the new study «prove [s] the exact opposite of what [its] authors claim.»

Our new understanding of climate and sea - level change sheds light on something that has long puzzled archaeologists: How did modern humans colonize the far reaches of the globe so quickly after their exodus from Africa?

The late archaeologist Peter Beaumont of the McGregor Museum in Kimberley, South Africa, who did many excavations at the site between 1978 and 1996, had claimed there was evidence for fire in various spots, in 1.6 - to 1.7 - million - year - old layers.

«So this shines a spotlight on a huge area of ignorance: what people were doing when sea level was lower than at present,» says Geoff Bailey, a coastal archaeologist at the University of York in England.

Archaeologists have long thought that people in the Old World were planting, watering, weeding, and harvesting for a good 5,000 years before anyone in the New World did such things.

Yet despite its size and importance, archaeologists still don't understand how this vast, lost culture began, how it ended, and what went on in between.

Most archaeologists would tell you it couldn't have been humans, who didn't leave conclusive evidence of their presence in the Americas until about 14,000 years ago.

«It is one thing to show that broken bones and modified rocks could have been produced by people, which [this paper does],» says Don Grayson, an archaeologist at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Archaeologists will tell you that what they do is not about the dead but the living — connecting the former world with the current one.

Bradley is one of a growing number of academics in the United Kingdom who are doing their digging in the masses of unpublished «grey literature» generated when commercial archaeologists are brought in to excavate before any sort of construction.