Sentences with phrase «archaeologists on»

Spend a whole day climbing the pyramids, exploring the underground caches, and marveling at the friezes and stone art, some of which are being actively discovered by archaeologists on site.

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.

Traffic's history (and future) comes alive as Tom Vanderbilt joins a traffic archaeologist on the well - worn streets of Pompeii and, later on, seats us at the helm of the most sophisticated traffic computer network in the United States: the Los Angeles Department of Transportation's Automated Traffic Surveillance and Control, where a single engineer attempts to keep L.A. gridlock at bay on Oscar night.

This evening, enjoy a lecture by a local archaeologist on the importance of Petra and the ongoing excavations at this UNESCO World Heritage site.

Not exact matches

He's also a swashbuckling archaeologist, and goes missing on the hunt for the Holy Grail.

If you read the original story this article is based on it says, «The archaeologists, Erez Ben - Yosef and Lidar Sapir - Hen, used radiocarbon dating to pinpoint the earliest known domesticated camels in Israel to the last third of the 10th century B.C. — centuries after the patriarchs lived and decades after the kingdom of David, according to the Bible.

As a matter of fact, based on linguists, Bible scholars, historians and archaeologists are the places to go to find the facts of Christianity.

(iii) you are a complete blowhard who has never studied one subject of university level biology, never been on an archaeological dig, never studied a thing about paleontology, geology, astronomy, linguistics or archaeology, but feel perfectly sure that you know more than the best biologists, archaeologists, paleontologists, doctors, astronomers botanists and linguists in the World because your mommy and daddy taught you some comforting stories from Bronze Age Palestine as a child.

That being said, not many people are aware of these anomalies on our planet since there is no formal teaching which questions religions and / or deductions of our archaeologists; for this reason, we can not blame anyone who has been raised with strict religious doctrine wishing to display their religious symbol.

Imagine, for example, that an archaeologist has unearthed dozens of carefully cut stone blocks of precisely the same size neatly aligned on top of one another.

They have obviously never met a biologist or an archaeologist, they are just parroting the false assertions given to them on their church website.

Archaeologists have found new evidence about the time frame of the biblical texts, based on what's essentially a shopping list.

Maybe archaeologists will dig up something that will shed light on the contradiction, or maybe there's some other piece of evidence that I'm unaware of.

Huffington Post: Evidence Suggests Flood, Noah's Ark Existed, Says Robert Ballard, Archaeologist Who Found Titanic Robert Ballard, one of the world's most famous underwater explorers, has set his sights on proving the existence of one of the Bible's most well known stories.

«The world is divided on this question,» explains James Cuno, with «museums, private collectors and art dealers» on one side, and «archaeologists, academics, and source nation cultural ministers» on the other.

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...

Every time an archaeologist finds an object with the words Mary or Jesus on it they immediately assume it is Mary the mother of Jesus and Jesus the Christ.

According to archaeologists, rice originated fifteen thousand years ago on the Indian side of the Himalayas.

While archaeobotanists and archaeologists today have a much clearer picture of the range of foods used by ancient peoples of Mesoamerica in their daily subsistence and dietary practices, the information on the nature, extent, structure, and timing of chili pepper use or consumption in the archaeological record remains scant.

Landfill as a means of waste disposal goes back to the dawn of civilisation, with archaeologists having discovered sites in the vicinity of the Minoan capital of Knossos on Crete dating back to 3,000 BC.

Chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces before he became an archaeologist, Yadin had used his new field to pump up the volume on Israel's ancient roots, warrior spirit and right to exist.

Scavenging K would be «like coming to someone's house and finding Coke cans on the floor,» says Mario Martin, an archaeologist and expedition researcher directing this part of the dig.

Archaeologists realized the carving must be part of Templo Mayor, the Great Temple of the Aztec Empire, known to lie somewhere below the city center based on colonial - era accounts and previous limited digging projects.

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.

The block on excavations has been the latest in a series of obstacles for archaeologists working in Egypt — the home of perhaps one - third of the world's antiquities, which reveal a vanished culture in unmatched detail (see «New research in an ancient land»).

Many archaeologists working in Egypt are reluctant to speak about Hawass on the record out of fear that he could regain influence in the country.

An Archaeologist at The Australian National University (ANU) has discovered a prehistoric Bronze - Age barrow, or burial mound, on a hill in Cornwall and is about to start excavating the untouched site which overlooks the English Channel.

«For a while, everybody could [seem] right,» says Ted Goebel, an archaeologist at Texas A&M University who has worked at sites on both sides of the Bering Strait.

Today, Egypt's most famous archaeologist can be found tucked away on the ninth floor of a faded apartment block in the Mohandessin district of Cairo.

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.

Libby collaborated extensively with Oriental Institute archaeologist Robert Braidwood in conducting C - 14 tests on artifacts of known age from Mesopotamia and Western Asia, including wood from an Egyptian mummy's casket.

David Madsen, an archaeologist at the University of Texas at Austin known for reserving judgement on when the Americas were first colonized, is convinced.

When these monkeys bang rocks together, they make stone flakes that resemble those archaeologists believe humans made two million to three million years ago.This video was reproduced with permission and was first published on October 19, 2016.

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.

Pigments are known to have enriched other Greek statues and temples, but despite two centuries of searching, archaeologists had found no trace of them on the Parthenon's many sculptures, until now.

They were able to map out each piece — and this week, on - the - ground archaeologists are working to reconstruct the site exactly as it was before the fire.

Archaeologists have determined that artwork found in limestone caves on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is far older than previously thought.

Abdul Amir Hamdani, an Iraqi archaeologist at Stony Brook University in New York, spoke with a colleague in Mosul familiar with the situation and reports that Islamic State forces occupied Nimrud for several days before bulldozing it from noon to late evening on 5 March.

IANES archaeologists from Tübingen examined the images on the embossed gold applications and categorized them from an art - historical perspective.

Archaeologist João Zilhão of the University of Bristol in England and his colleagues found 50,000 - year - old perforated painted seashells and pigment containers on the Iberian Peninsula in southwestern Europe, a region that was inhabited solely by Neandertals at the time.

Even more astounding, Overstreet also found stone tools and cut marks on the bones, offering archaeologists a rare glimpse into the brief period when humans and mammoths crossed paths.

She has appeared in magazines all over the world; as the Buffalo jeans girl on a 21 - meter billboard in Times Square; as an archaeologist in a Levi's ad.

We follow Alda as he meets with archaeologists unearthing stonework from caves in the Dordogne region in southern France and as he participates in behavioral studies on both chimps and children with primatologists at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center of Emory University in Atlanta.

Drs. Harmand and Lewis co-directed the fieldwork and analysis of the findings as part of an international, multidisciplinary team of archaeologists, paleontologists, geologists, paleoanthropologists; there are 19 other co-authors on the paper.

«Most people thought ancient society was peaceful, and that Bronze Age males were concerned with trading and so on,» says Helle Vandkilde, an archaeologist at Aarhus University in Denmark.

Exactly how the conflagration there unfolded can never be known, but Harvard archaeologist Steven LeBlanc believes the scenario he pieced together based on oral legends of similar battles of the Hopi, who live about 150 miles to the west, is plausible.

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.»

The reason Palaeolithic humans were thought to have lived solely on wild meat, says Revedin, is that previous plant evidence was washed away by overzealous archaeologists as they cleaned the tools at dig sites.

Archaeologists have found clever ways to uncover ancient humans» impact on today's jungles, from ancient collagen in bones to laser scanning by aircraft.

Archaeologists largely believe that the first Americans arrived by a land bridge from Asia about 15,000 years ago, and some went on to develop Clovis tools (see «A history of the first Americans in 9 1/2 sites»).