Sentences with phrase «by an archaeologist working»

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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.

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

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.

«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.

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.

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

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.

Today, many Iraqi and Syrian archaeologists evoke this infamous chapter in medieval history to convey some sense of the devastation wrought by the so - called Islamic State (ISIL), along with the continued brutality of more than four years of civil war in Syria.

A genetic archaeologist of sorts, Cary Fowler works to save the wild species threatened by crop domestication.

Archaeologist Daniel Adler from the University of Connecticut, working with David Lordkipanidze and Nikolaz Tushabramishvili of the Georgian State Museum and their colleagues at the University of Haifa, Hebrew University, and Harvard University, analyzed animal remains in a rock shelter in the Republic of Georgia that was used by Neanderthals and later by modern humans.

Research by a University of Southampton archaeologist suggests that early humans, who lived thousands of years before Neanderthals, were able to work together in groups to hunt and slaughter animals as large as the prehistoric elephant.

Commercial work now accounts for 93 percent of the archaeological research done in the United Kingdom, and academics must take note of the data generated by contract units, says Kenneth Aitchison, head of projects and professional development at the Institute for Archaeologists, the body representing commercial archaeologisArchaeologists, the body representing commercial archaeologistsarchaeologists in Britain.

«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.

The team of archaeologists, led by Joan Oates of Cambridge, will return to Brak in the spring to continue their work.

The international working group, which includes geologists Jan Zalasiewicz, Mark Williams and Colin Waters, from the University of Leicester's School of Geography, Geology and the Environment and archaeologist Matt Edgeworth has, since 2009, been analysing the case for formalisation of the Anthropocene, a potential new epoch of geological time dominated by overwhelming human impact on the Earth.

Opening with a ragged VHS, Don Verdean introduces us to its title character (Sam Rockwell), a Biblical archaeologist whose work in the Holy Land is discredited by authorities but supported and appreciated by church communities.

As scientific work is so often in progress by biologists, botanists, archaeologists, etc., these people are often available during the evening hours to discuss their work with interested visitors.

Here there is a series of crudely built stone mounds, now nearly destroyed by looting and, perhaps, by the work of Ambergris's first archaeologist, Thomas Gann.

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.

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.

More than one observer likened Mr. Segal's work to the monochromatic figure casts created by archaeologists to record the postures of Romans found at Pompeii.

His pieces are inspired by the uniqueness of nature, history, philosophy and science, and his interactions with distinguished archaeologists and historians has provided inspiration for these works.