Sentences with phrase «by archaeologists in»

Archaeopteryx is fittingly similar to the monster as it is a bird - like dinosaur with feathers whose discovery by archaeologists in 1861 helped provide a link between reptiles and modern birds.

A.D. (Anno Domini, year of the Lord) and B.C. (Before Christ) have long been used by archaeologists in Europe and the.

That tag was recovered from the bottom of a well by archaeologists in 2006.

The oldest carbonized sample of the crop found by archaeologists in the Pacific dates to about 1000 C.E. — nearly 500 years before Columbus's first voyage.

Named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2014, Poverty Point was first surveyed by archaeologists in 1913.

The discovery of a rare gold coin bearing the image of the Roman Emperor Nero at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte's archaeological excavations on Mount Zion in Jerusalem, has just been announced by the archaeologists in charge of the project, Drs. Shimon Gibson, James Tabor, and Rafael Lewis.

Squeezing through gaps so narrow we can't turn our heads, we come to some 6 - metre trenches dug by archaeologists in the 1960s.

Not exact matches

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

Such startling propositions - the product of findings by archaeologists digging in Israel and its environs over the last 25 years - have gained wide acceptance among non-Orthodox rabbis.

Seems like I feel the same way about you — there is so much that has been dug up by biblical archaeologist and ignored by your type — every time someone like you opens their mouth a biblical archaeologist shoves another spade in it.

In 1952, a team was set in place by the world - famous, preeminent scholar, archaeologist and pioneer discoverer of Holy Land historical sites and docu «ments, Dr. William Foxwell Albright, the professor of Semitic languages at the Johns Hopkins UniversitIn 1952, a team was set in place by the world - famous, preeminent scholar, archaeologist and pioneer discoverer of Holy Land historical sites and docu «ments, Dr. William Foxwell Albright, the professor of Semitic languages at the Johns Hopkins Universitin place by the world - famous, preeminent scholar, archaeologist and pioneer discoverer of Holy Land historical sites and docu «ments, Dr. William Foxwell Albright, the professor of Semitic languages at the Johns Hopkins University.

In contrast to your claims, many of the Bible's historic claims have been disproven by archaeologists, historians, astro - physicists, and geologists.

Such startling propositions — the product of findings by archaeologists digging in Israel and its environs over the last 25 years — have gained wide acceptance among non-Orthodox rabbis.

He is rent asunder by his long - unfulfilled desire to be an archaeologist in Greece.

@tallulah13 apparently google is not the most defining answer to scholarly study, He, Kedorlaomer, was a person of antiquity mentioned in the Bible, that was already a given.He was a king 4000 years ago and his treasures were discovered by archaeologists not that long ago.Up to the discoveries Kedorlaomer was an obscure reference in the «Bible «and there had been doubt as to whether he existed or not.

Nor is it the fact that in more than a century's worth of digging up the Middle East by archaeologists, not a single trace of any of these postulated «source texts» has ever turned up.

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

In an interview with ABC's Christiane Amanpour the archaeologist who discovered the Titanic discussed his findings from his search in Turkey for evidence of a civilization swept away by a monstrous ancient flooIn an interview with ABC's Christiane Amanpour the archaeologist who discovered the Titanic discussed his findings from his search in Turkey for evidence of a civilization swept away by a monstrous ancient flooin Turkey for evidence of a civilization swept away by a monstrous ancient flood.

Discovery of the inscription in the ruins of Tel Dan, in northern Israel, was reported last summer by Dr. Avraham Biran, an archaeologist at Hebrew Union College - Jewish Inst.itute of Religion in Jerusalem.

Peppersauce bottles have been found, excavated, and uncovered intact in shipwrecks, factories, and trash dumps by bottle diggers / collectors and archaeologists.

While archaeobotanists and archaeologists today have a much clearer picture of the range of foods used by ancient peoples of Mesoamerica in their daily subsistence and dietary practices, the information on the nature, extent, structure, and timing of chili pepper use or consumption in the archaeological record remains scant.

Following the reported release of the German archaeologists kidnapped in Kaduna state, a top - level security consultant and public affairs analyst, Dehinde Ariyo, has said that kidnapping thrives unabated in Nigeria because of the outdated security architecture in the country, the low - level of ammunition used by security operatives, and government's laxity in putting proactive measures in place to prevent the menace.

The ERS was founded in January 1884 as the Proportional Representation Society by the Victorian naturalist, archaeologist and polymath John Lubbock.

A team stands in Palace 6000, one of the ashlar palaces, originally excavated in the 1960s by Israeli archaeologist Yigael Yadin.

Commanding an army of workers bearing chisels and brushes, the iconoclastic Israel Finkelstein, a Tel Aviv University archaeologist and director of the Megiddo Expedition, orchestrates an upheaval of his own: By opening the belly of Megiddo, he is challenging the narrative of the Bible, upending ancient Israeli history and derailing what we thought we knew about the Iron Age in this region called the Levant.

There, archaeologists had dated the earliest settlements of the Hebrews — recognized by the lack of pig bones, reflecting their pork taboo — to perhaps the 13th century B.C. Had these people really been slaves in Egypt, returning as invaders as Yadin put forth?

The site dates back to around 2,000 BC and was discovered by chance when ANU Archaeologist Dr Catherine Frieman, who was conducting geophysical surveys of a known site outside the village of Looe in Cornwall, was approached by a farmer about a possible site in a neighbouring field.

Archaeologist João Zilhão of the University of Bristol in England and his colleagues found 50,000 - year - old perforated painted seashells and pigment containers on the Iberian Peninsula in southwestern Europe, a region that was inhabited solely by Neandertals at the time.

There, the team of archaeologists from Tübingen led by Pfälzner, discovered a pristine king's grave in 2002.

«Our findings challenge the theory held by many archaeologists that Levallois technology was invented in Africa and spread to Eurasia as the human population expanded.

Archaeologists who have uncovered two massive carved stucco panels in the Mirador Basin of Guatemala's northern rain forest say they are the earliest known representation of the Mayan creation myth, predating other such artifacts by a millennium.

Until recently, the oldest records of human sites in North America generally accepted by archaeologists were about 14,000 years old.

Morgan and University of Liverpool archaeologist Natalie Uomini arrived at their conclusions by conducting a series of experiments in teaching contemporary humans the art of «Oldowan stone - knapping,» in which butchering «flakes» are created by hammering a hard rock against certain volcanic or glassy rocks, like basalt or flint.

-- «black earth» that was purposely enriched by humans in the past — archaeologists have concluded that at least parts of the rainforest must have been home to large, agricultural settlements.

Archaeologists have found clever ways to uncover ancient humans» impact on today's jungles, from ancient collagen in bones to laser scanning by aircraft.

A team of archaeologists, led by Cat Jarman from the University of Bristol's Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, has discovered that a mass grave uncovered in the 1980s dates to the Viking Age and may have been a burial site of the Viking Great Army war dead.

The first person in each group was taught by archaeologists how to make artifacts called Oldowan tools, which include fairly simple stone flakes that were manufactured by early humans beginning about 2.5 million years ago.

Archaeologists largely believe that the first Americans arrived by a land bridge from Asia about 15,000 years ago, and some went on to develop Clovis tools (see «A history of the first Americans in 9 1/2 sites»).

Excavations led by archaeologists Martin Biddle and Birthe Kjølbye - Biddle at St Wystan's Church in Repton in the 1970s and 1980s discovered several Viking graves and a charnel deposit of nearly 300 people underneath a shallow mound in the vicarage garden.

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.

Archaeologists have known of Bosnia's so - called Butmir culture for more than a century, but the extent of this earliest flourishing of settlement and agriculture was discovered only in 2002 by a joint German - Bosnian team.

A study by a team of archaeologists based at the University of Copenhagen published today in the Royal Society journal Open Science documents that the region now known as the Black Desert in eastern Jordan could sustain a population of wild sheep.

The steep hills outside the small Bosnian city of Visoko have been climbed, poked, and scraped by a small army of both trained and amateur archaeologists for the past three years in a quest to reveal a 12,000 - year - old secret.

«Before the excavation, we believed that Byzantium [the precursor to Istanbul] had been established in the seventh century B.C. by Greek colonists,» says archaeologist Ufuk Kocabas.

Archaeologists are getting their first look at how a nearly year - long occupation by the group known as the Islamic State (IS) has affected the World Heritage Site of Palmyra in Syria.

Finally, in 2004, in a cave on the island of Flores in Indonesia, bones of a human relative no larger than a modern - day 4 - year - old were discovered by archaeologist Michael Morwood of the University of Wollongong in Australia and his team.

The new finds reveal a vast range of body sizes for ancient members of the human evolutionary family, reports an international team led by archaeologists Fidelis Masao and Elgidius Ichumbaki, both of the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania.

Locals then developed their own variations on Middle Paleolithic tools, says a team led by archaeologists Kumar Akhilesh and Shanti Pappu, both of the Sharma Centre for Heritage Education, India, in the city of Chennai.

In the past, archaeologists have explored the sea floor using divers and, more recently, remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) that are controlled by pilots on ship.