Sentences with phrase «excavated on»

The slide excavated on average the top 250 meters of sediment over a swath hundreds of kilometers wide, stretching half - way from Norway to Greenland.

Clay, marl and material excavated on site are mixed and compacted in a formwork and then layered in blocks to build the walls.

There are many scale models of famous archeological sites, reproductions of murals and many artifacts that were excavated on the Yucatan Peninsula.

Guests enter the Palazzo through huge wooden doors and pass along an elegant arcade of Doric columns with ancient artefacts on display that were excavated on site.

Very early farming sites have been excavated on Cyprus, but researchers were not sure whether they represented a small population pushed off the mainland — perhaps by population pressure or competition with other farmers — or the beginnings of a major migration across the sea to Europe.

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Plot: The scientific crew on the spaceship Prometheus finds an alien life forces after excavating Ancient Mesopotamian, Aztec and Magdalenian caves that were discovered on a star map.

Building on but moving beyond psychological understandings of guilt, and excavating the reality of wrong «being that underlies our wrong» doing, Pieper brings the wisdom tradition of Plato, Augustine, and Aquinas into conversation with moderns, both Christian and anti-Christian, who try to make sense of sin and evil in the human condition.

In 1119 AD the Knights Templar excavated beneath the Temple Mount in Jerusalem and found valuable scrolls of sacred geometry and early writings on Y «shua ben Yosef and Mariamne that stated they were MARRIED.

You need facts from the bible... try Sodom and Gomorra... These ancient cities have been excavated and scientists have found physical evidence of the cities being burned by fire, not just any fire either, the fire started on the roof tops and burned faster than any fire on earth.»

You need facts from the bible... try Sodom and Gomorra, kinda the direction our country is headed in... These ancient cities have been excavated and scientists have found physical evidence of the cities being burned by fire, not just any fire either, the fire started on the roof tops and burned faster than any fire on earth.

Passing on what Jesus's words and deeds mean to the Church renders irrelevant contemporary endeavours to excavate a «historical Jesus» in some archaeological space outside of the Church, divorced from the contributions of the Pauline epistles or the Johannine corpus.

Go to the dentist, excavate an old Golf Digest from the stack of Highlights, and there's Harmon, on the cover, playing one - handed bunker shots.

This seems to reset the game clock and suddenly Button Excavating took on a whole new life.

By Sean Ryan Schneider Excavating Inc. on Monday will begin a $ 1.1 million stimulus project to build a roundabout at the intersection of West North Avenue and North Barker Road in Brookfield.

The material was excavated in the 1970s, but in 2016 Rosso and her team performed a high - tech analysis on the pieces, which are about 40,000 years old.

Tullis Onstott has to put on a headlamp and protective gear when excavating microbial live in some of South Africa's deepest mines.

A previously excavated cow skull from a roughly 5,400 - to 5,000 - year - old settlement in France contains a surgically created hole on the right side, a new study finds.

In this study, the research team excavated intertidal beach sediments on the shoreline of Calvert Island, British Columbia, where the sea level was two to three meters lower than it is today at the end of the last ice age.

An Archaeologist at The Australian National University (ANU) has discovered a prehistoric Bronze - Age barrow, or burial mound, on a hill in Cornwall and is about to start excavating the untouched site which overlooks the English Channel.

We've been excavating a site on the beach about 10 meters from the high tide line for about 10 years, finding stone tools and ancient mammal bones and teeth.

Fossil mussel shells excavated more than a century ago at an H. erectus site on the Indonesian island of Java include a shell with engravings of an M shape, two parallel lines and a reversed N shape, the scientists report December 3 in Nature.

One of the key findings was that the size of an excavated crevice had an influence on the amount of shrimps that subsequently gathered in it.

They found the urchins indeed excavated their own cozy cavities within a few months, with shallower pits and flatter urchins occurring on granite reefs, and deeper pits with taller urchins on sandstone and mudstone reefs.

9 Weberman went on to found the National Institute of Garbology and claimed to have excavated telltale trash from Neil Simon (bagel scraps and ants), Gloria Vanderbilt (an empty prescription medication bottle), and Norman Mailer (betting slips).

Not only have he and his team been able to select the most promising sites for on - the - ground fieldwork, but they can also use the images to reconstruct the Garamantes» regional footrpint — something that would have been very hard to do by excavating one site at a time.

Rocks used as anvils in the experiments incurred damage similar to that observed on the other two excavated stones.

And the arduous work of excavating and plastering the fossil was not the end of the saga, Martill recalls: «Building plaster's got clay in it and takes ages to dry, so we looked for firewood — which is not easy to find in a desert — dug a trench on either side of the bone and lit fires to encourage it to dry.»

After Cape Gelidonya you went on to excavate other sites, including a seventh - century Byzantine shipwreck at Yassi Ada, an island off the western coast of Turkey.

Cape Gelidonya was the first ancient wreck excavated in its entirety on the seabed, the first excavated by a diving archaeologist.

Bretschneider led the German team from University of Mnster, which worked between 1992 and 2000 at the Euro - Syrian excavations at Tell Beydar, and is now excavating with a Syro - Belgian team in Tell Tweini (ancient Gibala) on the Syrian coast.

They stumbled on their finding when excavating the sites of two ancient villages some 50 kilometers south of Tbilisi.

Paleontologist John Kappelman of the University of Texas at Austin is finding the answer in northern Ethiopia, where he recently excavated the remains of five new elephant relatives (including the tusks seen here), huge rodent like hyraxes, and a late Arsinoitherium, a seven - foot - tall rhino - shaped beast that sported a pair of enormous conical horns on its snout.

A third - century coin, recently excavated in southern England, has brought to light an unknown chapter of Roman history: the troubled reign of Domitianus, an emperor whose hold on power was so fleeting that the only other archaeological evidence of his existence is a similar coin found a century ago and dismissed as a hoax.

Based on experimentally derived estimates of body mass from the Ileret hominin tracks, the researchers have also inferred the sexes of the multiple individuals who walked across footprint surfaces and, for the two most expansive excavated surfaces, developed hypotheses regarding the structure of these H. erectus groups.

Jan Storå, who holds the senior position on this study, reflects over the history of the material: «This burial was excavated in the 1880ies and has served as a model of a professional Viking warrior ever since.

These initial assurances, she adds, helped the rabbis feel comfortable letting the team excavate around the gas chambers, as they were not located on top of a mass - grave site.

They landed on nice, hard rock like on Mars or Mercury, exploding on the surface and excavating deep craters.

The find, carefully excavated to ensure proper dating, helps shore up the early arrival hypothesis, which chiefly rests on only a few, often - contested sites in the Americas.

But now archaeologists excavating a burial site on the west coast of England are finding a totally different picture.

On average, material blasted across Mercury's surface by relatively recent impacts of comets, asteroids, and other small bodies reflects only two - thirds as much light as freshly excavated material on the moon, previous studies have showOn average, material blasted across Mercury's surface by relatively recent impacts of comets, asteroids, and other small bodies reflects only two - thirds as much light as freshly excavated material on the moon, previous studies have showon the moon, previous studies have shown.

Page - Ladson «had always been on my hit list of sites to investigate,» says Michael Waters, an archaeologist at Texas A&M University, College Station, who has excavated several potentially pre-Clovis sites and is a co-author of the new study.

It is illegal to remove archaeological samples from Egypt, so the researchers dated items from museum collections in Europe and North America, as well as freshly excavated seed samples from Tell es - Sakan on the Gaza Strip, which was an outpost of ancient Egypt.

This would also explain the unusual lack of typical pond fossils at the site, as well as the near lack of gnaw marks on bones and calcite and barite concretions found on bones excavated from the quarry.

After anthropologists excavated her 3 - million - year - old skeleton in Ethiopia in 1974 — and named her for a Beatles song playing at the site on the discovery day — they soon became convinced it was female.

But until archaeologists have excavated domestic sites on the Maltese islands, we will not know the relative importance of other imported materials, such as flint and obsidian, for a domestic economy that was essentially based on local agriculture.

Originally excavated by a Kansas family on their ranch in 1987, it had sat in the museum basement ever since, until Luis Chiappe, director of the museum's dinosaur institute, decided to take a closer look.

The National Rivers Authority wants to excavate material from the sand bar — called Race Bank — and use it to strengthen coastal defences on the Lincolnshire coast.

Three of the excavated rings seem to be aligned with the points on the horizon where Sirius would have risen in 9100 BC, 8750 BC and 8300 BC, respectively (arxiv.org/abs/1307.8397).

A quarry in Strud, Belgium, that was excavated between 2004 and 2015 yielded fossils of multiple species of placoderms, which are extinct, armored fish that represent some of the earliest jawed vertebrates on Earth.

Since the 1960s, archaeologists have excavated more than 500 skeletons spanning the Mesolithic and Neolithic periods from dozens of sites along the Danube River gorges on the border between Romania and Serbia.