Sentences with phrase «at the archaeological site at»

We started early in the morning, around 6:00 am and we arrived at the archaeological site at about 08:30 am.

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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.

For example, one vessel found at an Olmec archaeological site on the Gulf Coast of Veracruz, Mexico, dates chocolate's preparation by pre-Olmec peoples as early as 1750 BCE.

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.

The signatures are added to a database which, when large enough, can be used to determine the geographic origin of material found at an archaeological site.

But the most serious challenge is illegal building, with locals trying to claim archaeological land at several sites.

This study's authors combed through reams of archaeological reports that analyze almost half a million fish bones at 171 archaeological sites from Alaska, British Columbia and Washington State.

Roel Lauwerier from the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands corroborated Lenders» archival findings with data from archaeological sites at which fish bones were uncovered.

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

Flood sediment settled over collapsed buildings and crushed bodies some 15 miles downstream at the archaeological site of Lajia.

«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.

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.

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 archaeological and paleontological material (including numerous human remains) at this Chinese site, declared a UNESCO World Heritage, was lost during the Second World War, while it was being shipped to the United States.

Remains unearthed at many archaeological sites throughout Scottish mainland and its islands suggest the deer have been an important source of meat, pelts, and bones for thousands of years.

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).

Fossils and stone artifacts unearthed at the archaeological site Jebel Irhoud display close links to later H. sapiens skeletons and tools.

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

At archaeological sites across Europe, the remains of our species are associated with an array of sophisticated artefacts not found at Neanderthal sites, including projectile weapons, cave paintings and sculptureAt archaeological sites across Europe, the remains of our species are associated with an array of sophisticated artefacts not found at Neanderthal sites, including projectile weapons, cave paintings and sculptureat Neanderthal sites, including projectile weapons, cave paintings and sculptures.

People have found stone tools at archaeological sites, and they have found bones lying close by, but McPherron points out that no one ever finds a million - year - old hand still holding a tool.

The archaeological site at La Ferrassie, excavated throughout the 20th century, is a mythical enclave because it was where 7 Neanderthal skeletons, ranging from foetuses to almost complete skeletons of adults, were found.

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.

The archaeological project has brought to light many other significant finds during the 2016 summer season, and work at the site will be resumed next year.

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.

Remains of food found at archaeological sites may be a misleading indicator of diet, because some things are more perishable than others.

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.

«But we should look at myths across Eurasia to understand this archaeological site,» he says.

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.

From sediment samples collected at seven archaeological sites, the researchers «fished out» tiny DNA fragments that had once belonged to a variety of mammals, including our extinct human relatives.

The report urged Egyptian authorities to convene a meeting «to analyze the security at archaeological sites, on how to deal with emergency situations, and how to create contingency plans using the Egyptian example.»

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.

Teeth, on the other hand, are hard and strong enough to survive through the ages, and they are often found at paleontological and archaeological sites.

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 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 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.

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.

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.

The team found that the infant most likely died between 42,300 and 45,600 years ago, and an evaluation of the site's archaeological levels suggested that it was very unlikely that any Neandertals survived at the cave later than 39,000 years ago.

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.