Sentences with phrase «excavated stone»

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One afternoon while the students ate lunch, University of Pisa archaeologist Antonio Fornaciari gave a tour of the trenches, pointing to a freshly excavated stone wall beneath an asphalt parking lot in area 4000 (see graphic).

Previously excavated stone tools, which researchers think were made by H. floresiensis, were dated to between 190,000 and 50,000 years old.

A tiny striped fish called Neolamprologus obscurus only found in Lake Tanganyika in Zambia excavates stones to create shelter and increase the abundance of food for all fish in the group.

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

Not exact matches

Amber is commonly mistaken for a stone or crystal when the substance is actually excavated resin that spent millions of years hardening underneath the Earth's surface.

Experience the excitement of discovery like a real paleontologist as you excavate 12 stones to uncover unique minerals and fossils!

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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.

Along with the stone tools we've excavated, these prints help to push back the timeline of known hominid occupation in Northern Europe by at least 200,000 years.

«Here's the problem: Stone tools are the least - familiar things we excavate,» says archaeologist John Shea of Stony Brook University.

The Israel Antiquities Authority soon launched a complete survey of Manot Cave, finding buried stone tools at several spots that are still being excavated.

LeBlanc and his crew also noticed that many walls they excavated were missing large numbers of stones.

Organic remains excavated in and around the caves helped the archaeologists reconstruct an environment very different from the expanse of sand and stone that surrounds the dig today.

Excavated over two dig seasons, the submerged structure turned out to be made of wooden posts and stone.

At roughly 320,000 years old, the excavated Middle Stone Age tools are the oldest of their kind, paleoanthropologist Rick Potts and colleagues report in one of the new papers.

To help clear up the evolution of farming in the West, the investigators compared genetic information from Europeans living during the Neolithic period (a.k.a. the late Stone Age, 10,000 - 4,000 years ago; the chronology varies between Europe and the Near East) with that from nine individuals excavated from two ancient settlements in Anatolia (the area between the Black and the Mediterranean Seas).

Newly excavated Middle Stone Age tools and red pigment chunks from southern Kenya's Olorgesailie Basin appear to have been part of a long trend of climate - driven behavior changes in members of the Homo genus that amped up in H. sapiens.

Archaeologists excavating at the sprawling Buddhist complex of Bhamala Stupa, north of Islamabad, at first thought they were digging up yet another stone wall.

Hlubik and other archaeologists have excavated around 5,000 artifacts from the site — mostly chips of bone or stone flakes.

They knew that humans had been in the area at least 35,000 years ago, the age given to ocher crayons and ocher - smeared stone tools they had excavated from the Leang Burung 2 rock shelter nearby.

ANCIENT NETWORKERS DNA from four Stone Age people — including the two shown here as they looked when excavated, top, and at the time of death, bottom — suggests that hunter - gatherers have long formed groups with few close relatives.

The team includes Thomas Sutikna of the National Centre for Archaeology in Jakarta and the University of Wollongong in Australia, who helped discover the «hobbit,» a small - statured human species from another Indonesian island, and he and Brumm are already excavating the caves near the newly dated art to search for ocher pieces, stone tools, and bones.

Berger's team plans to excavate near openings to the Rising Star cave system where stone tools and signs of fire use may turn up.

Someday Haas and Creamer would like to excavate a city, too, perhaps Caballete, a 150 - acre site in the Fortaleza Valley to the north that features mounds nearly the size of Caral's and a plaza ringed by six - foot - tall standing stones.

Some of the excavated communities revealed signs of burials, while other digs yielded sophisticated arsenals of stone tools.

Then he takes us full circle back to India, where the first diamonds were excavated centuries ago, into the modern - day stone mills where diamonds are faceted by thousands of workers paid 10 cents per stone.

While we have not excavated at these sites, surface collections yielded sherds of high quality, imported pottery and artifacts such as basalt grinding stones and obsidian blades from remote areas.

The church features Gothic architecture, with a pointed arch, supporting buttresses and belfry, with the main highlight being the gold - painted wooden statue of Mae de Deus, followed by the adorning black stones which were excavated from the church's original location in Old Goa.

It has a much more adventure - y feel with vines covering pyramid stones and yet to be excavated mounds lurking in the shadows.

Alongside these are his roughly carved stone sculptures, together with an elongated wooden Self Portrait (1959), delicately laid out like a skeleton in an excavated tomb, all of which represent man in his most primitive form.

Similar to his architectural projects, a 90's cordless phone made of plaster or stone, seems to be disintegrating or recently excavated.

Justin Matherly: «All industrious people» (through April 27) The concrete casts in Mr. Matherly's first solo at Paula Cooper are modeled on stone reliefs from Mount Nemrud, an excavated temple in Turkey.

Green architecture uses local materials: How much more local can you get than building a fortress with the stone you excavate to dig the surrounding moats and ditches?

We hired a track loader to excavate a 25» by 65» recess into a south facing hillside, and then hand dug footer trenches, poured 15 yards of concrete in them, and started slipforming stone walls.