Sentences with phrase «archaeologists study»

Archaeologists study how man influenced his living environment in the past and what the consequences were.

«Archaeologists study earliest recorded human burial site in Ireland.»

Archaeologists studying the children's skeletal remains noted signs of what they call green - bone burning — bone that has burned with flesh still attached.

The manner in which artefacts are found, how deeply the are buried and where they are placed in relation to each other can provide a lot of information to archaeologists studying a site.

It adds up to a detailed picture that most archaeologists studying the Norse have embraced.

Archaeologists studying ancient shipwrecks recently put this technique through the paces at three different shipwreck sites dated to the second and third centuries C.E. off the coast of Sicily in Italy.

Archaeologists studying totoaba bones from Rancho Punta Estrella — a site in Baja California occupied by humans 10,000 years ago and then again 5000 years ago — used a special bone from the fish's inner ear, called an otolith, to help them reconstruct the totoaba's early environment.

Intensive archaeologists studies in this area attempt to reconstruct hominin movements and -LSB-...]

First there was the border reporting, which mostly played out in many long road trips, crisscrossing the state, talking to people, going on ride - alongs with the Border Patrol, chatting up military contractors at security conferences, camping out with archaeologists studying rock art, and so on.

Not exact matches

Genesis is a complete slap in the face to any professional archaeologist that has studied human history.

(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.

The research of the archaeologist, historian and philologist supplies him with material for the study of religious groupings from the beginnings of history to the present day.

When therefore we set out to study the events out of which it arose, and the part that its Founder played in them, we are not like archaeologists digging up the remains of a forgotten civilization, or palaeontologists reconstructing an extinct organism.

@tallulah13 apparently google is not the most defining answer to scholarly study, He, Kedorlaomer, was a person of antiquity mentioned in the Bible, that was already a given.He was a king 4000 years ago and his treasures were discovered by archaeologists not that long ago.Up to the discoveries Kedorlaomer was an obscure reference in the «Bible «and there had been doubt as to whether he existed or not.

The studies were conducted by international teams each containing more than 100 archaeologists and geneticists and co-led by Harvard Medical School professor David Reich.

Uppsala University archaeologist Neil Price, a co-author of the study, reacted to the critics with a mix of irritation and disbelief.

As part of a field called «archaeomagnetism,» geophysicists team up with archaeologists to study the past magnetic field.

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.

Although archaeologists are excited to seeancient DNA yield breakthroughs in problems that have vexed their field for decades, says Linden, he expects some push back against the latest study's conclusions.

«At least we get the knowledge before the remains are put back in the ground,» says Steven Simms, an archaeologist at Utah State University in Logan, who has studied the Spirit Cave Mummy.

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.

Roberts co-led the study with archaeologist colleague Thomas Sutikna (who also helped coordinate the 2003 dig), and Matthew Tocheri, a paleoanthropologist at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Canada.

RCHE archaeologist Dr Adam Brumm, who also participated in the study, said Hobbits are likely to have inhabited other Flores caves which may yield more recent signs of their existence.

A report by the BBC described Osmanagich as a Bosnian archaeologist who had studied the pyramids of Latin America and characterized his statements as being supported by substantial evidence.

A study by a team of archaeologists based at the University of Copenhagen published today in the Royal Society journal Open Science documents that the region now known as the Black Desert in eastern Jordan could sustain a population of wild sheep.

Archaeologists are realizing that the ancient population centers they've spent decades studying are much bigger than they speculated.

She's writing about «people who study people and the things they left behind» — archaeologists who endure stingy funding, ruthless competition, long hours and often intolerable working conditions, all in hopes of documenting a past long gone before developers or the passage of time destroy a site forever.

At Wonderwerk, Boston University archaeologist Paul Goldberg — a specialist in soil micromorphology, or the small - scale study of sediments — dug chunks of compacted dirt from the old excavation area.

Archaeologist Patrick Quinn of University College London and three Chinese colleagues studied the composition of clay samples from the site.

«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.

Dogfish Head Craft Brewery in Delaware is producing a drink based on the original recipe, with the help of biomolecular archaeologist Patrick McGovern of the University of Pennsylvania Museum, who aided in the Honduran study.

«When people think about our ancient ancestors, they either tend to have a view that our ancestors must have been primitive, less culturally diverse, or they take the view that our ancestors were probably extraordinarily culturally impressive,» says Peter Hiscock, an archaeologist at the University of Sydney who was not involved in the study.

Boyd, an archaeologist and director of SHUMLA (Studying Human Use of Materials, Land, and Art), an education and research center in Comstock, Texas, will spend the afternoon scouring the shelter for insight into the ancient residents and their spiritual world.

To study Naachtun and its alliances in treacherous times, University of Calgary archaeologist Kathryn Reese - Taylor made her way to the site in 2004.

But archaeologists doubted those results because there were no detailed descriptions of the artifacts and it was unclear whether the artifacts were the same age as the surrounding sediment, says study coauthor Zenobia Jacobs, an archaeologist at the University of Wollongong in Australia.

However, the researchers in today's study suggest their work could help archaeologists to take a fresh look at the development of urbanisation in early civilisations.

«What we're looking at is probably the beginnings of the utilization of salmon,» says Ben Potter, an archaeologist at UA Fairbanks, and a co-author of the study.

The most detailed evidence of ancient acoustical design comes from the Stanford team studying Chavín de Huántar, which was constructed between 1300 and 500 b.c. Peruvian archaeologists first suspected the complex had an auditory function in the 1970s, when they found that water rushing through one of its canals mimicked the sound of roaring applause.

Now a new study disproves that theory, said archaeologist David Meltzer, Southern Methodist University, Dallas.

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

Marjan Mashkour, an Iranian archaeozoologist who works at the CNRS in Paris and initiated the study with Burger and Fereidoun Biglari, a prehistoric archaeologist at the National Museum of Iran, added: «The Neolithic way of life originates in the Fertile Crescent, maybe also some Neolithic pioneers started moving from there.

Although the stories stress violence, the groups «were mixing very quickly,» says Duncan Sayer, an archaeologist at the University of Central Lancashire in Preston, U.K., who co-wrote the study.

After studying mitochondrial data from people in India and neighboring regions, Petraglia and archaeologist Ravi Korisettar of Karnatak University in Dharwad, India, and their collaborators refined the timing of this population boom to between 35,000 and 28,000 years ago.

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.

In studying the art, the archaeologist is forced to seek all imaginable clues.

The research sheds light on the complicated cultural and political legacy of the Vikings in Ireland, says Søren Michael Sindbæk, a Viking archaeologist at Aarhus University in Denmark who wasn't involved in the study.

This study alone may not paint the complete picture of the Canaanite lineage, says Aaron Burke, an archaeologist at UCLA, because the researchers examined the genomes of only five Canaanites.

Associate Professor Ian Smith, an Otago archaeologist involved in the study, says it seems that these contrasting wildlife histories reflect differences in prehistoric human - hunting pressure.

«All animals can be social with people to some extent, but dogs are uniquely good at being with us,» says University of Alberta archaeologist Robert Losey, who studies the human - dog relationship in prehistory.

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