Sentences with phrase «at archaeological sites in»

The film includes footage shot on location at archaeological sites in Greece — Delphi, Corinth, and Olympia — and was made possible by the HRH Foundation.

«Remains of barley (Hordeum vulgare) grains found at archaeological sites in the Fertile Crescent (in the near east which spans present day Israel, northern Syria, Southern Turkey, eastern Iraq and western Iran) indicate that about 10,000 years ago the crop was domesticated there from its wild relative «Hordeum spontaneum».

Once they used clusters of dates to track patterns of population growth and decline at archaeological sites in Europe, they calibrated their method by studying patterns in the types and dates of pollen found at the sites, which reflect when farmers cleared land of trees to grow crops.

They discovered at an archaeological site in Armenia that these types of tools already existed there between 325,000 and 335,000 years ago, suggesting that local populations developed them out of a more basic type of technology, known as biface, which was also found at the site.

Not exact matches

The archaeological research at the site in 1973 (Jerusalem School of Archaeology, «Bible & Spade Journal») shows that there were no nuclear family dwellings inside the city walls, but that men lived with men, and women and children in separate housing.

The movie — a 90 - minute compilation of footage taken at various archaeological sites around the globe which purportedly proves the thesis — has now been released in most Western countries.

Tourists are seen in front of the «Gran Jaguar» Mayan temple at the Tikal archaeological site, 560 kms north of Guatemala City.

The baccatum species, familiarly termed «ají» throughout South America, originated either in Bolivia or in Peru and, according to archaeological evidence, was probably domesticated in Peru about 2,500 B.C. Extensive baccatum material found at the Huaca Prieta archaeological site in Peru shows that the species was gradually improved by the pre-Incan civilizations.

They left their mark on four continents — not just at archaeological sites, but also in the flora and fauna, the languages and local populations.

To explore European ancestry further, Willerslev's team extracted DNA from the ulna, or lower arm bone, of a skeleton of a young man discovered in 1954 at Kostenki 14, one of more than 20 archaeological sites at Kostenki - Borshchevo.

DNA found at archaeological sites reveals that the origins of our domestic cat are in the Near East and ancient Egypt.

«Because [the sites in the book] really have become archaeological sites in many ways, and I think, just at a base level, I was just trying to preserve them in this state of their existence,» he added.

Dr Simon Blockley and Dr Alison MacLeod, from the Department of Geography at Royal Holloway, analysed volcanic material that preserved the archaeological site in the village of Nor Geghi, in the Kotayk Province of Armenia.

The large number of unearthed individuals at one archaeological site is unique in Europe.

These six teeth belonging to Homo erectus were found in the mid-twentieth century at the Middle Pleistocene archaeological site of Zhoukoudian (Beijing).

The Châtelperronian industry follows the Mousterian in archaeological layers at all sites where both occur.

Though Gibson expects the site will eventually be open to visitors who wish to see the ruins, he notes that the site at present remains closed until the archaeological work can be completed in subsequent seasons and the fragile structures there have been stabilized through conservation procedures.

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.

Dolores R. Piperno of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and Karen E. Stothert of the University of Texas at San Antonio collected fossilized Cucurbita phytoliths from archaeological sites in southwestern Ecuador.

The study concludes that the archaeological layers at the site are so mixed up that ornaments and tools once attributed to Neandertals could actually be the work of modern humans, who lived in the same cave at a later date.

More generally, she hopes to demonstrate the archaeological value of using noninvasive methods like lidar and high - resolution photography to explore sensitive areas — techniques that could be used at sites as diverse as the killing fields in Cambodia and World War II — era shooting trenches in Eastern Europe.

A recent study led by Joseph Ferraro, Ph.D., assistant professor of anthropology at Baylor, offers new insight in this debate with a wealth of archaeological evidence from the two million - year - old site of Kanjera South (KJS), Kenya.

The team sampled 151 mummified individuals from the archaeological site of Abusir el - Meleq, along the Nile River in Middle Egypt, from two anthropological collections hosted and curated at the University of Tuebingen and the Felix von Luschan Skull Collection at the Museum of Prehistory of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Stiftung Preussicher Kulturbesitz.

Now, subtle traces of volcanic ash at Pinnacle Point, a famous archaeological site on the southern coast of South Africa, suggest that at least some groups of early humans survived, and even thrived, in the eruption's aftermath.

The researchers, led by Dr Andrew Wilson, an expert in perception, action and embodied cognition at Leeds Beckett, alongside Associate Professor Qin Zhu from the University of Wyoming, Professor Lawrence Barham and Professor Ian Stanistreet from the University of Liverpool, and Professor Geoffrey Bingham from Indiana University, analysed a sample of 55 spheroids (ball - shaped stone objects found in African archaeological sites) from the Cave of Hearths in the Makapan Valley in South Africa.

For instance, at Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico, which is a park solely because of its remarkable Native American architecture, the «existing staff numbers are far too small to adequately document and preserve the archaeological sites, and to fully educate the public,» says Stephen Plog, an archaeologist at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, who has studied the Chaco Culture.

In this virtual space, the researchers hope to track patterns of movement of the astronauts and objects over time, which might allow them to understand patterns of life on the station in the same way that they might when looking at an archaeological site on EartIn this virtual space, the researchers hope to track patterns of movement of the astronauts and objects over time, which might allow them to understand patterns of life on the station in the same way that they might when looking at an archaeological site on Eartin the same way that they might when looking at an archaeological site on Earth.

WRITTEN IN BONE DNA from a 37,000 - year - old skeleton found at the Kostenki archaeological site in Russia supports recent findings and offers new ones about the history of human evolutioIN BONE DNA from a 37,000 - year - old skeleton found at the Kostenki archaeological site in Russia supports recent findings and offers new ones about the history of human evolutioin Russia supports recent findings and offers new ones about the history of human evolution.

After being hidden for nearly 15,000 years, the lives of Ice Age hunter - gatherers who migrated to Europe to benefit from warmer climes are to be revealed in an archaeological dig at a very rare site in Bradgate Park, Leicestershire.

This image was based on evidence from butchered meat bones and hunting tools at archaeological sites, as well as from studies of carbon, nitrogen, and other chemicals in the fossilized teeth of Neandertals, which can reveal their diets.

Such cuts are especially troubling, MacDonald says, at a time when the world is condemning the destruction of priceless museum collections and archaeological sites in Syria.

Now, at an open - air archaeological site called El Salt in Alicante, Spain, researchers have gathered fossilized feces in the sediment where Neandertals lived at different times between 40,000 and 60,000 years ago, before modern humans arrived in the region.

A 2,700 - year - old portico was discovered this summer on the site of the ancient city of Argilos in northern Greece, following an archaeological excavation led by Jacques Perreault, Professor at the University of Montreal's Centre of Classical Studies and Zisis Bonias, an archaeologist with the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports.

An international team of archaeological scientists have put an end to the more than half - a-century old claim about the earliest copper smelting event at the Late Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in central Turkey — one of the world's best - studied prehistoric archaeological sites.

«Each year, 20 to 30 students spend four to six weeks at Argilos to learn excavation techniques and analysis of archaeological material, and to visit various archaeological sites in northern Greece,» says Perreault.

Researchers reporting in the journal Geoarchaeology discovered that the interior of the container, which was found at an archaeological site on southern Baffin Island, contains fragments of bronze as well as small spherules of glass that form when rock is heated to high temperatures.

In June archaeologist Ian Kuijt at the University of Notre Dame and colleagues reported that they had uncovered the world's earliest known granaries, located at the Dhra archaeological site on the shore of the Dead Sea in JordaIn June archaeologist Ian Kuijt at the University of Notre Dame and colleagues reported that they had uncovered the world's earliest known granaries, located at the Dhra archaeological site on the shore of the Dead Sea in Jordain Jordan.

He collected 372 mouse teeth from the dirt at five archaeological sites in what is now Israel and Jordan.

Artifacts unearthed from various pits at the site appear to share features that are typical of an ancient archaeological practice developed by the first farmers in Scandinavia.

First, here are the four sets of artifacts, all of which were excavated at real archaeological sites in Washington, DC.

An ornamented bâton percé, or pierced rod, unearthed at the archaeological site of Gołębiewo in Poland, may provide evidence of interregional contact...

This study is one of the first in its kind and we hope will point to the importance of coprolites as important cultural markers and thus any archaeological dig should include the search and preservation of any coprolites found at the sites.

(b) The ancient samples used in this study were excavated at three archaeological sites in East England: Hinxton, Oakington and Linton.

These intermittent warming trends correspond with most of the archaeological horizons recorded in sites MV - I, CH - 1 and CH - II between ~ 18,500 and 15,000 cal BP and with the later, more prolonged presence of people at MV - II around ~ 14,500 cal BP.

That, at least, is what Florida Atlantic University scientists hope to prove by analyzing ancient DNA found at an archaeological dig in Vero Beach... Fossil Site on the Charles Deering Estate in south Miami - Dade County.

In 1863, the archaeological site at Attirampakkam was discovered by R B Foote and investigated by several scholars in the 1930s and 1960In 1863, the archaeological site at Attirampakkam was discovered by R B Foote and investigated by several scholars in the 1930s and 1960in the 1930s and 1960s.

In 2011 barley seeds were recovered from pre-Hispanic grain silos at three archaeological sites on Gran Canaria: Guayadeque — Cuevas Muchas (henceforth Subsistence mosaics, forager - farmer interactions, and the transition to food production in eastern AfriIn 2011 barley seeds were recovered from pre-Hispanic grain silos at three archaeological sites on Gran Canaria: Guayadeque — Cuevas Muchas (henceforth Subsistence mosaics, forager - farmer interactions, and the transition to food production in eastern Afriin eastern Africa

Historical Summary 3000 C For several years, experts surmised that archaeological site at Keezhadi in Sivaganga district of Tamil Nadu dates back.

Michael Peterson, an archaeologist at Redwood National Park in California, photographs the coastline annually to monitor erosion of archaeological sites.

The timeline works well alongside other Historic England online resources, for example the teaching notes, presentations and activities exploring life in Bronze Age Britain through the exciting story of the recent excavation at Must Farm in Cambridgeshire; and a whole range of images for the period featuring archaeological sites around the country, tools and remains and modern reconstructions of homes and settlements.