Sentences with phrase «archaeologists think»

A water temple complex where archaeologists think a «drought cult» offered sacrifices has been discovered at the Cara Blanca site in Belize.

Chichén Itzá was a large city, which archaeologists think started gaining importance between 700 to 1,000 A.D.

Well, local archaeologists think that is unlikely, but it was too sexy, in every sense, to ignore completely.

Some archaeologists think that controlled fire use dates back 1.6 million years.

(Some archaeologists think it was the crowding, rather than agriculture, that promoted disease, but this is a chicken - and - egg argument, because crowding encourages agriculture and vice versa.)

Archaeologists think the bodies landed or were dumped in shallow ponds, where the motion of the water mixed up bones from different individuals.

During this brief window, ideal sailing routes would have been created from the already populated south Austral Islands to Easter Island — exactly when many archaeologists think the island was colonised.

Archaeologists thought it was a bunch of jock divers out there.

Recent digs show long - distance trade and complex social structures were around for longer than archaeologists thought.

Not exact matches

According to Sonia Zakrzewski, an associate professor of archaeology at the University of Southampton, Hublin's discovery could encourage other archaeologists to change the way they think about human origins.

The remains of the medieval church where William Wallace is thought to have been made Guardian of Scotland after defeating the English army has been found by archaeologists.

Science was great back in the early 1900s when archaeologist in the middle east thought that their digs were confirming bible stories.

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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...

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?)

Commanding an army of workers bearing chisels and brushes, the iconoclastic Israel Finkelstein, a Tel Aviv University archaeologist and director of the Megiddo Expedition, orchestrates an upheaval of his own: By opening the belly of Megiddo, he is challenging the narrative of the Bible, upending ancient Israeli history and derailing what we thought we knew about the Iron Age in this region called the Levant.

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

Abstract and perhaps symbolic forms of thinking associated with such creations preceded the evolutionary origins of Homo sapiens around 200,000 years ago, say archaeologist Josephine Joordens of Leiden University in the Netherlands and her

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.

«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.

Tim Darvill, an archaeologist at England's Bournemouth University, thinks Stonehenge was a sort of Stone Age healing center.

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.

«This means that modern humans emerged earlier than previously thought,» says Mattias Jakobsson, population geneticist at Uppsala University who headed the project together with Stone Age archaeologist Marlize Lombard at the University of Johannesburg.

For example, archaeologists at first thought that a fighter whose femur had snapped close to the hip joint must have fallen from a horse.

Archaeologists have long thought that Homo erectus, humanity's first ancestor to spread around the world, evolved in Africa before dispersing throughout Europe and Asia.

«People think that it must have taken a long time to get anywhere, that it must have been difficult to travel long distances, but that is not true,» says archaeologist Marilee Wood, whose research focuses on the network's glass bead trade.

«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.

If you think most fish stinks after 3 days, try 11,500 years: That's the age of salmon bones that archaeologists have uncovered at the Upward Sun River site, one of Alaska's oldest human settlements.

If the Greenland settlement was originally an effort to find and exploit the prized natural resource of ivory, rather than a collection of independent farmers, the society would have needed more top - down planning than archaeologists had thought, says Christian Koch Madsen of the Danish and Greenlandic National Museums in Copenhagen.

Archaeologists tend to think these sort of cultural shifts reflect the spread of new ideas through an unchanging population.

But in recent years archaeologists have uncovered evidence of ancient, densely populated settlements throughout the basin, hinting at societies far larger and more advanced than previously thought.

Archaeologists excavating at the sprawling Buddhist complex of Bhamala Stupa, north of Islamabad, at first thought they were digging up yet another stone wall.

Archaeologists used to think that people walked from Siberia through an ice - free passage down Alaska and Canada, reaching the interior of the United States about 13,000 years ago.

After a decade worth of surveys and excavation, archaeologists have come to a conclusion they never thought they'd make in Mesoamerica: It was home to a republic.

University of Toronto archaeologist Timothy Harrison and colleagues are excavating a temple in the Tell Tayinat region of Turkey, built around 800 B.C. Though this time was thought to be a dark age when trade between Greece and the Middle East nearly ground to a halt, Harrison says that his finds — including ivory carvings, precious metal foils, and pottery — are a clear indication of cultural and economic exchange among cultures such as the Hittites, Aegeans, and Semites.

As one of the world's leading authorities on ancient seafaring, he has devoted much of his career to hunting down hard evidence of ancient human migrations, searching for something most archaeologists long thought a figment: Ice Age mariners.

Silverman's fieldwork discovered that the site is three times larger than archaeologists had thought, extending over about 150 hectares, of which 25 hectares — the heart of the site — are covered with pyramid - shaped temples.

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.

That's where a team of archaeologists has found ancient stone tools and butchered mastodon bones that have been reliably dated to 14,550 years ago — more than 1000 years before scientists once thought humans first reached the New World.

Archaeologists know long - distance contacts probably happened, but we get twitchy thinking about it.

Then along came a pair of archaeologists from the University of Denver with a noninvasive, nondestructive technology to topple conventional thinking.

«I think that's a sampling problem,» says Dennis Stanford, an archaeologist at the Smithsonian Institution.

Archaeologists have made a discovery in southern subtropical China which could revolutionise thinking about how ancient humans lived in the region.

Thanks to the new discoveries, though, «we have hope that at least some khipus might be understood,» says archaeologist Jeffrey Splitstoser of George Washington University in Washington, D.C.. Before Hyland's report, Splitstoser thought it likely that colored threads on khipus had arbitrary meanings assigned by their makers, making them indecipherable.

Archaeologists dating Paleolithic cave paintings in France thought such behavior arose suddenly about 35,000 years ago in Europe with Cro - Magnon man.

Decades ago, Soviet archaeologists noted 77 large settlements there, but the UChicago group counted more than 1000 ancient villages, towns, or cities, suggesting that the area was far more densely populated over an extended period than once thought.

However, this year archaeologist Christopher Henshilwood of the African Heritage Research Institute in Cape Town uncovered what he considers much earlier evidence of abstract thought — two pieces of ocher engraved by a South African cave dweller 77,000 years ago.

Archaeologists once thought the so - called Clovis people were the first in the Americas.

Like most Iraqis, I thought the arrival of the Americans was very welcome, but when you work as an archaeologist for 30 years, love the field, and know each piece, and then you see all the destruction and looting — this was very hard.

«I think all three of these people are very capable archaeologists,» he says.