Sentences with phrase «excavating more»

Today, archaeologists from all over the world have a field day excavating its more than seventy - five structures.

Now that the first shovelful of earth has been moved, crews will begin excavating more than 870,000 tons of rock to create the huge underground caverns for the DUNE detector.

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.

In the years since, Kuessner and his collaborators have excavated more than 2 hectares and used geomagnetic surveys to analyze disturbances in the soil over an additional 10 hectares to reveal the outlines of the camp.

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.

They were excavated more than 100 years ago at the site of Tebtunis (now Umm el - Breigat) in the Fayum region of Egypt.

In 2010, Till Hanebuth, a geologist at the University of Bremen in Germany, excavated more than a dozen ancient kilns in the Sundarbans, a coastal region of mangrove forests renowned for its population of royal Bengal tigers.

Not exact matches

The extraction and processing of a viscous oil called «bitumen,» excavated from vast formations of sand just below the surface of Alberta's northern region, has come under fire because it requires more energy than many other oil operations.

A definitely more reliable report comes from Patriarch Yeshuyab II in about 635 AD from an excavated inscription by him which was found in an excavation in 1625 AD.

That is, of course, you know more than those excavating the sites are Jerusalem and the caves at Qumran.

A professor of New Testament at the University of La Verne in California, Reed started excavating at sites in Galilee more than 20 years ago.

Its Pauline authorship is these days not seriously doubted; its date of composition is more clearly determined than perhaps any other book of the New Testament; the origin of the church is recounted in Acts; the geographic site of Corinth is known and excavated; the integrity of the text is not widely challenged; text - critical uncertainties are few.

Excavating these can be of considerable value and academic researchers need to make far more effort in this kind of work.

The hobbit team has continued excavating Liang Bua — mainly in search of more hominin remains, but also to better understand the geology of the enormous cave.

«We're 10 years down the road, and we know a lot more and we've excavated a lot more.»

That's what Huw Groucutt, a paleoarchaeologist at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, and his team were looking for when they began excavating sites in the Arabian Desert more than 10 years ago.

Prof Chris Stringer, Research Leader in Human Origins at the Natural History Museum, first excavated at Gough's Cave 30 years ago, said: «I first studied «Cheddar Man» more than 40 years ago, but could never have believed that we would one day have his whole genome — the oldest British one to date!

That would provide more valuable evidence of Neolithic organisation, without the need to excavate the trees and check for characteristic cut marks.

The bronze vessels, of different shapes and sizes and with varying decorations, were used to extract water from the well, which has been excavated to a depth of more than 105 feet.

Excavated from Sterkfontein Cave over more than a decade, Little Foot is the oldest hominin fossil — and one of the most complete — ever found in South Africa.

The coin dates to a little more than a decade before the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans in 70 AD, and was found in rubble material outside the ruins of the 1st Century Jewish villas the team has been excavating.

Of the more than 130,000 bones excavated between 2005 and 2013, only 5 percent could be identified as a specific animal.

By excavating the houses of both rich and poor, we have found that provincial society was far more complex than previously thought.

«These are the oldest fossilised sperm ever found in the geological record,» says Professor Mike Archer, of the UNSW School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, who has been excavating at Riversleigh for more than 35 years.

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

Hundreds of thousands of artifacts, including intricate and elaborate hand - woven baskets excavated between 2007 and 2013 in Huaca Prieta, reveal that early humans in that region were a lot more advanced than originally thought and had very complex social networks.

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.

It took more than 15 years to excavate the fragile fossils from the rock.

More than 6000 bones from the species — more than any other Alaska dinosaur — have been excavated and categoriMore than 6000 bones from the species — more than any other Alaska dinosaur — have been excavated and categorimore than any other Alaska dinosaur — have been excavated and categorized.

The portico itself has not yet been fully excavated, and according to the results of a three - metre deep geophysical survey, the structure appears to continue, and more discoveries thus await the archaeologists.

He and his sons, for example, are excavating the rock and his wife is down in the campsite, splitting the rock, and I think, more than 65,000 specimens made its way back to the Smithsonian — this massive collection.

Excavating towards the back of it, I found half a pack of seafood I couldn't remember buying, as well as little bags of chillies, one odd portion of green beans, two bread rolls, and much more besides.

Sam Rockwell is Don Verdean, a Biblical archeologist who is hired by a pastor and his wife (Danny McBride and Leslie Bibb) to excavate artifacts for their ministry to boost Read More →

Sherlock Gnomes doesn't even bother to excavate many additional John classics to re-introduce to a new generation; it just cues up «Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting» and «Don't Go Breaking My Heart» a few more times (though Mary J. Blige does get to sing a new song mid-movie).

The Setup Fossil excavation was a 6 - week class - more of a club, really — in which students excavated a real fossil fish from a soft rock matrix.

Although the two mounds that look like a saddle have been a focal point in the Changsha area of south - central China for more than 2,000 years, it wasn't until 1971 that archaeologists began excavating these ancient tombs, and what they uncovered was astounding.

As your dog gets more experienced excavating the Kong, you can pack it with more items and freeze it over night to make the process of cleaning it out more challenging for them the next day.

More than 600 years later, as they were building a new church, inhabitants of the town excavated the site of the ancient Roman baths and uncovered one of the red - tiled villas.

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.

Then spend the night among the enchanting ruins of Machu Picchu, excavated by Hiram Bingham with funding from National Geographic more than a century ago.

Altun Ha was one of the largest Mayan trading hubs and is the country's most excavated ruin with more than 250 buildings for visitors to view.

More sites are constantly being discovered and excavated in Belize, contributing to an increasing understanding of the ancient Mayan world.

Tikal: The Tikal ruins in the Petén district of Guatemala are, in excavated area at least, larger and more spectacular than any Maya site in Belize.

Also known as Tzippori or Zippori, this archaeological site in the Western Galilee has been excavated over the... Read more

70 structures have been excavated here, but it is thought that there are more than 700 more just waiting to be unearthed on the 950 acres that make up this site.

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

You'll have to juggle these factors while keeping up your power supplies and paying more each time you excavate deeper underground.

In my painting Screen (Yellow Band) it is more the process of covering than excavating that interests me.

By excavating the MoCP's archives, Tichy renders them more relevant than ever before.

The artist intends the sculpture, sited in the remote wooded area of the lower grounds at Laguna Gloria and recalling petrified wood in its textures, to be an «excavated relic or fantastical object,» one that is «more sci - fi than scientific.»