Sentences with phrase «even as the archaeologist»

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But it was the cross that excited Cambridge University archaeologists, marking her out as an early convert to Christianity and - as the earliest Christians were from noble families - indicating she was of aristocratic or even royal blood.

«Participants could dig with their hands in fish tanks filled with sand for artefacts such as coins and tiles as well as learning how to «bag» these finds exactly as archaeologists would do and even experiment in putting broken pieces back together.»

Archaeologists had previously found the remains of a variety of plants at these sites — as well as stones used to grind plants and seeds into flour, and even rock art depicting a person picking plants — but the new findings are the first to definitively show that the sites» occupants actually cooked them.

Unlike paleontologists and archaeologists, who condemn amateur hunters and merchants for destroying excavation sites, many meteoriticists see the commercial traffic in meteorites as a boon — even a necessity — to science.

Even as the first Clovis tools were being found at Blackwater Draw, other archaeologists were discovering evidence of ancient human activity in Chile at about the same time as the Clovis culture.

So some archaeologists have questioned whether these earlier ornaments played the same symbolic roles as the later ones, or even whether they were made by humans at all.

Leiden archaeologist Robert Power discovered that Neanderthals must have consumed regularly plants as food even in this cold and dry environment.

For archaeologists, Afghanistan is virtually off - limits for fieldwork, as Taliban forces battle the Kabul government in far - flung provinces and security remains tenuous even in the capital.

An accomplished young archaeologist, he devotedly uncovers the city's past as a way to escape his own, which holds a secret that not even his doting parents can talk about.

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.

Even as anthropologists and archaeologists continue to puzzle over the eclipse of the Mayan empire, the Maya themselves are still here, with estimated 6.2 million living in Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.