Sentences with phrase «as a archaeologists from»

Horn interrogated various «acquaintances» of the murder victim such as archaeologists from the museum who had been looking after Ötzi for years, or experts from forensic medicine, radiology and anthropology.

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8) «This conclusion serves to corroborate the inference made by Soviet archaeologists from their discovery of camel - headed wagons that as early as the first half of the third millennium B.C. two - humped camels were used in Turkmenistan for drawing wagons...» The Camel and the Wheel, Richard W. Bulliet p155

(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.

It is also true, as Fr Nesbitt recounts, that our evidence as scientists and archaeologists is scant and that vast time periods separate us from the days that we are considering.

Archaeologists have unearthed proto - dynastic religious artefacts, such as carved figures from Badari burial grounds, going back 1000 years before the 1st Pharaoh.

But it was the cross that excited Cambridge University archaeologists, marking her out as an early convert to Christianity and - as the earliest Christians were from noble families - indicating she was of aristocratic or even royal blood.

Ceramic evidence indicates occupation of the City of David, within present - day Jerusalem, as far back as the Copper Age (c. 4th millennium BCE) with evidence of a permanent settlement during the early Bronze Age (c. 3000 — 2800 BCE) The Execration Texts, which refer to a city called Roshlamem or Rosh - ramen] and the Amarna letters (c. 14th century BCE) may be the earliest mention of the city Some archaeologists, including Kathleen Kenyon, believe Jerusalem] as a city was founded by Northwest Semitic people with organized settlements from around 2600 BCE.

That population bulge at La Corona corresponded to a period from 520 to 740 when Kaanul kings transformed a series of Guatemalan sites into satellites of a state with Calakmul as the capital, said archaeologist Tomás Barrientos of the University of the Valley of Guatemala in Guatemala City.

The variety of Beaker artefacts makes it hard to define them as emerging from one distinctive culture: many researchers prefer to call their spread the «Bell Beaker phenomenon», says Marc Vander Linden, an archaeologist at University College London.

The unprecedented wave of destruction has prompted a small protest today in front of the White House, as well as statements of outrage from archaeologists and museum curators around the world.

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.

The 16th century bones — two femurs (thigh bones) and an ulna (wing)-- have been analysed by University of Exeter archaeologists and identified as among some the first turkeys to be brought to England from the Americas.

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

The archaeologist smiled just as broadly, if perhaps a bit more mischievously, when pointing out his two secret weapons to keep the timbers still in the tanks from being damaged by bacteria, fungi or insect larvae.

Digging just a few hundred yards away on the main mound of what today is called Tell Brak, the archaeologists recently uncovered large buildings and extensive workshops from the same period — around 3800 B.C. — as well as imported material and fancy tableware.

His team — a Greek and two Sudanese archaeologists, a pair of conservators from Italy and Austria, and an American archaeological surveyor — are at the dig site today, trying to accomplish as much as they can before the sun rises higher in the sky and the desert temperatures soar beyond 100 degrees Fahrenheit.

Betty J. Meggers, a Smithsonian archaeologist who worked in the Amazon from the mid-1900s on, referred to the region as «a counterfeit paradise.»

This is important as archaeologists have long suspected that some of the earliest Americans may have crossed the Bering land bridge from northeastern Asia.

Archaeologists have assumed it developed gradually from the pastoral communities that preceded it, but physicist Mike Dee from the University of Oxford and his colleagues now suggest that the transition could have taken as little as 600 years.

Just as biologists reconstruct extinct species, and archaeologists reconstruct ancient societies, linguists can reconstruct the pronunciation of ancient from modern words and show which languages have developed from the same ancestor.

Dennis Stanford, an archaeologist at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., adds that the authors could have benefited from additional samples from North America as well as more Asian skulls.

This cultural flexibility may have been the key to success for modern humans, says a team of international researchers, made up of archaeologists, paleo climatologists, and climate modellers from the French CNRS1 and the EPHE PSL Research University, Bergen University as well as Wits University.

Archaeologists have shed new light on the belief systems of early Mesolithic hunter - gatherers after analysing cremated remains and artefacts given as grave offerings from the earliest recorded human burial site in Ireland.

Lynden Cooper, Principal Investigator on the project, said: «To Upper Palaeolithic archaeologists sites such as Bradgate Park are the equivalent of a Pompeii, preserving a record of human existence from a snapshot in time millennia ago.

Archaeologist Justin Walsh noticed, however, that social scientists were excluded from this mix — with anthropology, archaeology and geography in particular singled out as disqualifying degrees.

He is also one of archaeology's most controversial figures, winning praise from foreign archaeologists, who say he has done much to modernize an antiquated system, as well as scorn from those who say he claims credit for others» discoveries.

She worked about five years as an archaeologist in Hawaii and California, jumping from job to job and living out of a duffle bag in hotels and campgrounds.

At another site in South Africa called Blombos Cave archaeologist Christopher Henshilwood of the University of Bergen in Norway has recovered shell beads and engraved pieces of iron oxide as well as tools wrought from bone, dating back to 71,000 years ago.

Many archaeologists such as Tom Dillehay, from Vanderbilt University shared that the research fails to entirely exclude the possibility of natural processes involved in the movement of the rocks, or creating the wear pattern on the stones.

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They belong to a team of naval archaeologists who recover sunken artifacts from the past — as well as thwarting the odd dictator and rescuing helpless damsels by the timely use of a spear gun.

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.

Now, though, eight films in (the majority of them, after the second, made from non-franchise scripts retooled for franchise inclusion), the puzzle box seems to fall into the hands of not archaeologists of pleasure, but hard - bodied co-eds who aren't interested in discovering new, unknown experiences so much as shitting around in the usual slasher - film fashion and accidentally freeing some wise - cracking, cosmic hook - wielding genie.

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Rene Vellanoweth, an archaeologist, believes that inbreeding depression can be managed by mixing the different island fox subspecies populations much as the indigenous peoples did, by moving them from island to island, creating a higher genetic diversity and assisting them in recovery.

Archaeologists have declared the cave as one of the most well - preserved remnants of the pre-classical Mayan culture from the time period 700 - 900 AD.

Because it was built on higher ground, archaeologists say it was also used as a lighthouse to guide trade boats coming ashore from Cozumel, Tulum and Xaman - ha, modern day Playa del Carmen.

Because it was built on high ground, archaeologists believe the temple was also used as a lighthouse to guide trade boats coming from Cozumel, Tulum and Xaman - ha (Playa del Carmen).

Our trek will start with a gentle walk of a small ravine after 2 hours then we need to climb around 400 meters to the reach Pumamarka ruins, the walk from here is one hour to reach the Inca site of Huchuy Qosqo, recently restored by archaeologists, located at 3,450 mals from this point it is clear to see many beautiful mountains as Chicon, Pitusiray, Sawasiray, Waccaywilca or Veronica ancient sacred mountains «Apus» so respected and venerated by the locals Incas - Quechuas descendents living in this valleys for centuries.

As such, you had to unpick the story of the place like an archaeologist digging at ruins, or by reading the abstruse descriptions on items plundered from crisp - dry corpses, or rust - stuck chests.

The artist thus will aim to be an urban archaeologist who digs from the city these elements, which can serve as core threads in their artistic practice.

The museum serves as the hub of the City's archaeology program where visitors interact with archaeologists and volunteers working in the public laboratory; experience Alexandria's 13,000 year - old - history through exhibits, self - guided tours, and hands - on activities; and view the latest finds from current excavations.

For instance, the archaeologist Thomas McGovern found a grand total of three fish bones in Norse garbage from Vatnahverfi farms next to lakes teeming with fish» As for your quotes about Greenland regional climate at that time, I have no quarrel, they are not a misrepresentation like your other fishy quote.

As the story in the New York Times says, the trove of 1,500 gold and silver pieces from the 7th century has «left archaeologists awestruck.»

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