Sentences with phrase «archaeologists working»

Price's commission will explore the archives and collections of the Ashmolean Museum and the Pitt Rivers Museum (which cares for Oxford's holdings of anthropology and world archaeology), looking particularly at photographs of artefacts and documents used historically by curators, anthropologists and archaeologists working in the field, while simultaneously engaging with the social and psychological implications of digital technologies.

This commission would enable the artist to explore the archives and collections of the Ashmolean Museum and the Pitt Rivers Museums (which cares for Oxford's holdings of anthropology and world archaeology), in particular the photographs of artefacts and documents created by curators and by anthropologists and archaeologists working in the field.

In 2000 archaeologists working in Leptis Magna, Libya, uncovered a 30 ft length of five colorful mosaics created during the 1st or 2nd century AD.

Previous placements have involved teachers working with archaeologists working on the Crossrail project in London, standing in a wind tunnel at aerospace company QinetiQ and going behind the scenes at Cambridge University.

Archaeologists working on Crossrail have donated to the Museum a piece of 55 - million - year - old amber and a woolly mammoth jawbone fragment unearthed in London.

SA: Recently, archaeologists working in Ethiopia announced that they had found evidence that humans were using stone tools to butcher animals 800,000 years earlier than previously thought, and the hominids in question were probably australopithecines, namely Lucy's species,.

Archaeologists working at a prehistoric site in Israel now claim to have found the earliest signs of a communal feast, apparently to commemorate the death of an elder 12,000 years ago.

Pompeii's electronic guide: After 250 years of excavation, archaeologists working at Pompeii have discovered a powerful new tool.

Archaeologists working in the Kenyan Rift Valley have discovered the oldest known stone tools in the world.

Most archaeologists working in Mesoamerica bypassed Aztec sites on their way to the spectacular jungle ruins of Classic - period Maya civilization.

Archaeologists working in the Veracruz region of Mexico have turned up evidence of a spooky, 4,500 - year - old cat - worshipping man who had his teeth filed down to stubs so he could run around in a set of jaguar fangs.

Archaeologists working on the eastern coast of England have found a series of footprints that were made by human ancestors sometime between one million and 780,000 years ago.

Archaeologists working at the site found the remains of six horses — a costly sacrifice among the nomadic Pazyryk — complete with saddles and gold - trimmed harnesses.

Archaeologists working today are behind measurements and notes on excavations that may be used hundreds of years in the future.

Yesterday, at the annual meeting of AAAS (which publishes Science) here, archaeologist Lori Collins of the University of South Florida, Tampa, showed how her team and Mexican researchers working with Proyecto Arqueológico Chalcatzingo, a team of Mexican archaeologists working to preserve the Chalcatzingo site, digitally deconstructed the 3D model (pictured) of the altar into individual rocks.

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.

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»).

Archaeologists worked out the basics of pottery dating by the 1920s, for example, and Carbon 14 dating entered the picture in 1933.

«There's certainly more [humans] at the site,» says Katerina Douka, an Oxford archaeologist working on dating the cave's inhabitants.

«Some of the artifacts found right under the ash were almost certainly made by modern humans,» says John Hoffecker, a University of Colorado archaeologist working at the site.

At Must Farm quarry in Cambridgeshire, archaeologists work on the site of a Bronze Age settlement destroyed in a fire 3,000 years ago.

Maggie, the outspoken state archaeologist working the dig, insists the shipwreck has historical significance.

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Verano is now working with Gabriel Prieto, an archaeologist at the Universidad Nacional de Trujillo, to publish their findings in a peer - reviewed, scientific journal.

She began her travels abroad with Europe, during college, and later returned to work as a field archaeologist in the U.K., digging up Vikings, before attending graduate school in New York.

Actually never ended up back in AK after that trip... live in TX now, and that via working for an archaeologist in Israel.

If your belief is that our world is only 10,000 years old because God got bored and magically created all living things exactly as they are today over the course of a week, you are basically calling all the work and discoveries by archaeologists and anthropologists a bunch of baloney.

Although the site was originally dated to the time of Joshua, most scholars accepted the later work of British archaeologist Kathleen Kenyon who argued that this period of Jericho's turbulent history was too early for the time of Joshua.

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.

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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...

«The work of renovation should help archaeologists and historians gain a better sense of the tomb, which was damaged and greatly reduced by the fourth - century construction of the church,» Evans said.

Archaeologist, anthropologist and naturalist, he devoted a great deal of time and reflection to the detective work of scientific observation.

For archaeologists at a dig, the painstaking work known as picking is an everyday routine.

«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.

Barry Kemp, an archaeologist at the University of Cambridge, UK, and director of the Amarna Project, has been working with his colleagues to excavate the skeletons, and says that they are starting to reveal «an alarming picture of a stressful life».

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.

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.

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.

Groups such as the Association of Greek Archaeologists have complained that the subsequent relentless media coverage, floods of tourists and increased risk of looting are compromising ongoing work at the site.

Not so at The 106 Group, the private cultural - resource - management company in St. Paul, Minnesota, where the 30 - year - old archaeologist and ethnographer works.

The marine archaeologist's work can be as detailed, painstaking, and slow - paced as that of terrestrial counterparts, so having a base near the site of a shipwreck would offer enormous advantages over repeated short - duration dives.

That's her job as an archaeologist, she feels, and as an interpretive planner working with parks and developers to find the hidden history of a place and reveal it to the public.

If they become identified it is only through the hard work of archaeologists.

Despite the added responsibilities and challenges, he recognizes that working on a transportation - linked excavation also provides opportunities archaeologists might not otherwise enjoy.

The slopes where huge swaths of soil have been cleared away now resemble the stone - paved terraces of a Latin American pyramid, but that look, says archaeologist Brian Stewart of the University of Cambridge, may be the result of this recent dig, not the work of an ancient civilization.

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

Until that point, Bolderson had worked as a freelance archaeologist around England, mostly in urban environments, where she assessed building sites before development.

When I got back to the States, Rodney Young, an archaeologist at the University of Pennsylvania whom I'd worked with at Gordion, knew I'd had this formative experience.

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.