Sentences with phrase «archaeologists led»

In 2010, a team of archaeologists led by University of Alaska Fairbanks» Ben Potter discovered the ancient cremated remains of a three - year - old child at the Upward Sun River site in the Tanana River Valley of central Alaska.

A team of archaeologists led by John Woods of the University of Chicago has spent several summers searching for it.

Chinese archaeologists led by Qiang Ji of Nanjing University found the well - preserved fossil, including impressions of soft tissue and fur, in the Jiulongshan Formation in Inner Mongolia.

The Woods Hole researchers worked on the project with Greek archaeologists led by Theotokis Theodoulou of the Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities.

Miles Russell, a Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at Bournemouth University and one of the archaeologists leading the dig, said, «The discovery is of great significance as it is the only time where evidence of a villa and the villa's occupants have been found in the same location in Britain.

«Finding a battle is not like finding an object,» says Clemens Reichel, the University of Chicago archaeologist leading the U.S. team.

But when the archaeologist leading the excavation died in 1999, work stopped.

Yet there is no doubt that «Prometheus,» set about a hundred years from now and starring Noomi Rapace («The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo») as an archaeologist leading a space mission to capital - T Trouble, is an «Alien» - derived life form.

Benjamin Clement, the archaeologist leading the dig, described the site as a «real little Pompeii», whose remains had been remarkably well preserved, and the discovery as «undoubtedly the most exceptional excavation of a Roman site in 40 or 50 years».

Not exact matches

Archaeologist Alisha Gauvreau, a doctoral student from the University of Victoria and a scholar with the research institute Hakai, led a team that excavated the site in late 2016.

Wirlu - murra elders have led a team of anthropologists and archaeologists on an expedition into the outback as part of a three - year cultural mapping initiative sponsored by Fortescue Metals Group.

Archaeologists in Israel may have just made a significant discovery leading to further evidence that King David was an actual historical figure as described in the Bible, and not a mythical one.

Yosef Garfinkel, a highly respected archaeologist in Israel, said that the Tel Dan Stela (pictured above, left) «led to the collapse of the minimalist paradigm in which David was little more than a myth.

The late Dr. William Rathje was an American archaeologist who became a world - leading garbage expert.

Uppsala archaeologist Price is two years into a decade - long, $ 6 million project to reveal the economic, social and environmental factors that led to the Viking Age.

However, the Coyolxauhqui relief sparked such national excitement that archaeologists were permitted to embark on long - term excavations, first led by Eduardo Matos Moctezuma of Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History.

«Having more Greenlandic archaeologists would be very important for Greenland so that they can set their own priorities,» says Konrad Smiarowski, a graduate student at the City University of New York in New York City who leads the dig here.

The latest work, led by geneticists Iñigo Olalde and David Reich at Harvard Medical School, involved 103 researchers at dozens of institutions, including Bronze Age archaeologists.

The replicas are «worthless... so we can break them and use them in ways that we can't with the real artifacts that are priceless,» explains archaeologist Metin I. Eren, who leads the lab.

The Rochester team, which included several undergraduate students, collaborated with archaeologist Thomas Huffman of the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa, a leading expert on Iron Age southern Africa.

Lead researcher Damian Evans, an archaeologist at the University of Sydney, says the true extent of the city is apparent only from above.

There, the team of archaeologists from Tübingen led by Pfälzner, discovered a pristine king's grave in 2002.

Recent excavations led by University of Sheffield archaeologist Mike Parker Pearson have led him to suggest the two sites were built as a single complex of complementary stone and wood circles linked by a river route.

One group of archaeologists, led by Anthony Harding, president of the European Association of Archaeologists and a professor at the University of Exeter, wrote an open letter to the Bosnian government denouncing the pyramids as a «cruel hoax on an unsuspecting archaeologists, led by Anthony Harding, president of the European Association of Archaeologists and a professor at the University of Exeter, wrote an open letter to the Bosnian government denouncing the pyramids as a «cruel hoax on an unsuspecting Archaeologists and a professor at the University of Exeter, wrote an open letter to the Bosnian government denouncing the pyramids as a «cruel hoax on an unsuspecting public.»

According to the team of University of Copenhagen archaeologists, who led the excavations, the discovery is further evidence that the region often seen as a «marginal zone» was capable of supporting a variety of resources, including a population of wild sheep, 14,500 years ago.

A team of archaeologists, led by Cat Jarman from the University of Bristol's Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, has discovered that a mass grave uncovered in the 1980s dates to the Viking Age and may have been a burial site of the Viking Great Army war dead.

Fifty metres wide and 25 metres deep, the sinkhole is a gateway to the mysterious Koonalda caves.Walshe, an archaeologist from the South Australian Museum, is leading a group of researchers and members of the Mirning people, the traditional Aboriginal owners of the land, into the caves.

Excavations led by archaeologists Martin Biddle and Birthe Kjølbye - Biddle at St Wystan's Church in Repton in the 1970s and 1980s discovered several Viking graves and a charnel deposit of nearly 300 people underneath a shallow mound in the vicarage garden.

These relics of ancient South Americans add to evidence from nearby sites challenging the longstanding view of Clovis people as the first Americans (SN: 8/11/12, p. 15), a team led by geochronologist Christelle Lahaye of the University of Bordeaux 3 and archaeologist Eric Boëda of the University of Paris X reports March 4 in the

Miracle and Tonko Rajkovaca, a native Bosnian and fellow Cambridge archaeologist, are leading a team of researchers in piecing together a map of who lived in the area, using clues found in the Bosnian landscape including a scattering of stone tools going back some 100,000 years.

The new finds reveal a vast range of body sizes for ancient members of the human evolutionary family, reports an international team led by archaeologists Fidelis Masao and Elgidius Ichumbaki, both of the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania.

A team led by archaeologist Damian Evans beamed a laser pulse 200,000 times per second from the helicopter toward the dense forest below.

Locals then developed their own variations on Middle Paleolithic tools, says a team led by archaeologists Kumar Akhilesh and Shanti Pappu, both of the Sharma Centre for Heritage Education, India, in the city of Chennai.

Archaeologists around the world are condemning the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology for laying off 18 researchers, in particular one of the world's leading archaeobotanists, Naomi Miller, who has been in the field for 30 years.

«They added charcoal and a liquid, possibly urine, to the mixture, so they knew how to combine substances and were able to experiment,» says archaeologist Christopher Henshilwood of the University of Bergen in Norway, who led the study.

During a four - year excavation of an Etruscan well at the ancient Italian settlement of Cetamura del Chianti, a team led by a Florida State University archaeologist and art historian unearthed artifacts spanning more than 15 centuries of Etruscan, Roman and medieval civilization in Tuscany.

In 2016, a team led by University of Victoria archaeologist April Nowell and her colleague Cam Walker, a biological anthropologist with Archaeological Investigations Northwest Inc. in Portland, Ore., used CIEP to analyze tools found at a 250,000 - year - old animal processing site in Jordan's Shishan Marsh.

University of Victoria archaeologist April Nowell led a team that identified protein residues on tools used to butcher animals 250,000 years ago at a site in Jordan.

The evidence of early human occupation stunned Tom Dillehay, an archaeologist at Vanderbilt University in Nashville who led the new study.

In a paper published online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team led by David Meltzer, an archaeologist at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, in Texas, looks at the dating of 29 different sites in the Americas, Europe, and the Middle East in which impact advocates have reported evidence for a cosmic collision.

This led many archaeologists to conclude that the Clovis were not the first Americans, and that there was a pre-Clovis culture.

Under the tutelage of lead archaeologist Jaime Awe, Moyes came to appreciate the intricacy and depth of the Maya's relationship to the underworld.

In 1989 Hortensia de Vega led a team of archaeologists from Mexico's National Anthropology Institute in the excavation of a large mound at the edge of modern Yautepec.

Recent genetic research of people across the globe suggests that roughly 45,000 to 20,000 years ago, one of the most dramatic population booms after humanity dispersed from Africa occurred in southern Asia, leading to «the highest population densities in the world in prehistory,» explains Michael Petraglia, an archaeologist at the University of Oxford in England.

University of York archaeologist Geoff Bailey recently led a major study of the ancient Red Sea coastline.

In April Oxford archaeologist Paul Pettitt and two colleagues — Paul Bahn, one of Britain's leading Ice Age art specialists, and Sergio Ripoll, an archaeologist at the National University of Distance Learning in Madrid — descended into a cave at Nottinghamshire's Creswell Crags, a limestone gorge frequented by Ice Age hunters.

Leading Australian archaeologist Mike Morwood, co-discoverer of the extraordinary human «hobbits,» has died.

«It looks like seafaring capabilities and seafaring technology have a much greater antiquity than conventional wisdom among archaeologists would lead one to expect,» says James O'Connell, an archaeologist at the University of Utah.

A team led by Julie Schablitsky, an archaeologist with the University of Oregon, searched the Alder Creek area 30 miles west of Reno, Nevada, and located a site where they suspect the Donner family had camped out for five months.

A study led by physical geographer at Southampton Professor Tony Brown, in collaboration with archaeologist Dr Laura Basell at Queen's University Belfast, has found that sites popular with our early human ancestors, were abundant in foods containing nutrients vital for a balanced diet.