Sentences with phrase «defined by archaeologists»

Ochre is most commonly defined by archaeologists as any iron - rich rock that can be used as a pigment.

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@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.

For most of the 20th century, archaeologists believed the first residents of the Americas arrived 13,200 years ago and belonged to the so - called Clovis culture, defined by their distinctive fluted stone tools.

The character of some of these horizons may not meet the traditional criteria used by some archaeologists to define valid early sites, such as spatially continuous and multiple activity areas with numerous features, artifact clusters, and diagnostic bifacial stone tool assemblages [6,26,27].

Eight page booklet: define glacier keywords; map skills page to locate and name glacial areas around the World; SPAG exercise about the glaciers on Mars; page to compare advantages and disadvantages of tourism in the glacial landscape of the Lake District; moral dilemma about whether people in the UK should be concerned with the melting of Himalayan glaciers; research page about glaciers in World cultures; and finally a page about Ötzi the Iceman and how his body was analysed by archaeologists