Sentences with phrase «excavating in»

Sacks has referred to his intensive process of discovery and layering as «excavating in reverse.»

Explore the concept of chlorophyll fading from the leaves first by making a color, scratch, and reveal card or doing some leaf excavating in the salt tray.

We're literally excavating in the houses of the common people.

This documentary follows the plight of the park rangers as they seek to protect the mountain gorilla population as well as the park from poachers and SOCO International, a British oil company, who wants to excavate in search of oil within park borders.

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.

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

It's 75 - 71 million years old (Cretaceous Period) and was excavated in Montana.

ANCIENT PAWS New radiocarbon evidence has identified three dogs excavated in Illinois, including this pooch, as the oldest canines in the Americas.

To retrace the history of the disease, an international team of scientists, led by Johannes Krause from Tübingen University and Stewart Cole from EPFL Lausanne, have reconstructed entire genome sequences of M. leprae bacteria from five medieval skeletons that were excavated in Denmark, Sweden and the United Kingdom as well as seven biopsy samples from modern patients.

The program describes how studies of Naia's bones (SN: 6/14/14, p. 6) and of genes from an 11,500 - year - old infant recently excavated in Alaska have generated fresh insights into how people populated the Americas.

The find comes from a 2,000 - year - old latrine that had first been excavated in 1992.

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.

Twelve years ago, footprints of carnivorous dinosaurs were discovered and excavated in a quarry near Goslar.

Remnants of snails, clams, frogs, crocodiles, rodent - size mammals, and other animals have been excavated in neighboring micro-sites.

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

The fact that a discovery of such significance has been made thanks to reviewing the remains excavated in the 1970s provides the researcher with proof of «the importance and need to review old excavations.

Many of the seeds excavated in 2012 and 2013 have been analyzed by Chiara Comegna in the laboratory of Gaetano di Pasquale at the University of Naples Federico II, using a morphometric program originally devised for tomato seeds.

Vercellotti had managed to excavate it in the season's final week, and its DNA is now being analyzed.

The other example of a contemporary mikveh with an attached bathroom is at a site excavated in Jerusalem in the nearby Jewish Quarter.

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.

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.

When the town was excavated in the 19th century, archaeologists found human - shaped cavities in the ash where bodies had decomposed.

First excavated in the 1990s from Utah's Neslen formation, Rhinorex had been studied primarily for its well - preserved skin impressions.

The bone fossils were excavated in the Taymyr Peninsula, Russia, where arctic conditions favor the preservation of DNA.

Padian and other critics also cite problems with the bones that Saitta excavated in Montana.

Fourteen skeletons of victims killed by earthquake in Cave dwelling F4 at Lajia site excavated in 2000.

Part of the Shingopana skeleton was excavated in 2002 by scientists affiliated with the Rukwa Rift Basin Project, an international effort led by Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine researchers Patrick O'Connor and Nancy Stevens.

The more we excavate in the region, the more interesting artefacts are coming to light, he says.

Dadiwan, which was first settled about 8000 years ago and produced China's earliest known painted pottery, was excavated in the 1970s and again in 2006.

He was rummaging through boxes of animal bones previously excavated in the Sterkfontein caves, about 40 kilometers northwest of Johannesburg, where a number of fossils of australopithecines — advanced apes similar to the famous Lucy — have been discovered.

Preserved in volcanic ash more than 3.5 million years ago, the 27 - metre trail with two parallel sets of footprints — one single trail and another thought to have been made by two individuals, possibly an adult and a child — was first excavated in 1977.

GENE BANK Scientists extracted the oldest known hominid DNA from this 400,000 - year - old leg bone excavated in a Spanish cave.

The oldest genome yet sequenced came from a horse's foot bone dating to between 780,000 and 560,000 years ago that was excavated in Canada's Yukon.

We have previously seen such a mosaic in Australopithecus sediba, a 2 - million - year - old hominin that Berger and his colleagues excavated in 2008 from the Malapa cave, a few kilometres away.

This year, geneticists at the Australian Centre for Ancient DNA (ACAD) at the University of Adelaide hope to recover DNA from a roughly 18,000 - year - old H. floresiensis tooth, which was excavated in 2009 from the Liang Bua site on the Indonesian island of Flores.

The findings from the synchrotron experiment, CT scan and other scientific analyses and studies of history conducted by the students will help researchers and historians better understand the context in which the Garrett mummy was excavated in 1911 as well as Roman - period mummification practices.

Scientists were able to analyse DNA from a tooth and from a finger bone excavated in the Denisova cave in southern Siberia.

Interestingly, the study, led by Ashley Sharpe, an archaeologist from Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, revealed that the remains of the two dogs excavated in Ceibal in Guatemala indicated isotopes that the animals likely adapted a drier and mountainous environment.

But the details remain fuzzy, because so few researchers have excavated in Asia.

A total of 1501 bones and teeth excavated in 1952 were assigned to the broad - toed horse (Equus latipes).

These days, as I finish my 37th year, I embrace the happiness, the peace, the love and purpose I have excavated in my life.

Full of infectious music and comedy, Louie Bluie is a humane evocation of the kind of pop - cultural marginalia that Zwigoff would continue to excavate in the coming years.

This object comes from the largest Anglo - Saxon cemetery excavated in England.

The earliest bathroom was excavated in a place called Orkney Islands, Scotland.

Lewis shines a light on the mining of coltan, a mineral key to the production of cell phones, which is often excavated in places gorillas call home.

A Short History of Ancient Iran Evidence of settled communities in Iran date back to at least the 5th millennium BC (as evidenced by 7,000 year - old wine jars that have been excavated in the Zagros Mountains).

Alaskan's natural love to dig may result in completely dug backyard landscape so if you have a trimmed lawn or other «manicured» landscape design you may end up having it completely excavated in a matter of couple of hours.

After just one remarkable find, your dog will prefer to excavate in that California corner — her digging pit, where she once found something very worth finding.

Peers and his son weren't the first people to try and excavate in the cave, and previous explorers apparently did more than a fair bit of damage.

The first «playground» for your children is the Greek Theater, a masterpiece of acoustics, completely excavated in the rock and one of the largest theatres in the Greek world.