Sentences with phrase «excavating sites»

Archaeologists spent months sifting through the caves and excavating sites on the mesa summit.

Teachers can apply for summer General Educator Fellowships to work with scientists on research projects, such as monitoring the zebra population in Kenya or excavating sites related to Peru's Wari Empire, in the Andes, or for Live from the Field slots; in this short trip during the school year, teachers report back to their classrooms with blogs, videos, and phone conferences.

In excavating sites in a long - inhabited urban area like Jerusalem, archaeologists are accustomed to noting complexity in their finds — how various occupying civilizations layer over one another during the site's continuous use over millennia.

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

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.

Old school fieldwork is also part of the process: Goebel, for example, is looking forward to excavating sites in Alaska that might challenge or augment the migration models created with genetic data.

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

Archaeologist Alisha Gauvreau, a doctoral student from the University of Victoria and a scholar with the research institute Hakai, led a team that excavated the site in late 2016.

Landfill Sending material to an area of land or an excavated site that is specifically designed and built to receive wastes

Alhajia Abdulai said one Sledge Nana Yaw Duodu, the developer and businessman, threatened workers who were excavating the site to shoot them and went ahead to seize keys to the excavator they were using in the exercise.

He said, «It was another sad day in Irigweland as gunmen suspected to be Fulani shot and Killed four Irigwe youths at a sand excavating site at Nche - Tahu close to Rafi Bauna by 10 am.

The scientists and volunteers were excavating a site that produced parts of several immature sauropods when Dana Biasatti, then a student at UT - D, «stretched her legs» and came upon the remarkable remains of an adult titanosaur a few hundred yards away.

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.

Though no similar mechanisms have yet been found, the Return to Antikythera project has made several discoveries since it began excavating the site in 2014.

Three years ago, a team from the Oriental Institute began excavating a site in Iran's Khuzestan region.

Although researchers have longed to excavate the site, called Comb Wash, the cost — roughly $ 1 million — and the time — about five years — have been prohibitive, not to mention the opposition by Native Americans to disturbing sacred grounds.

A Jewish - German archaeologist had excavated the site in 1905.

Archeologists have been excavating the site since 2011.

Finland — A metal - detection hobbyist discovered a treasure trove of late Viking - era artefacts in a shallow grave on his land, including an intact sword dating... excavated the site and announced the find on Tuesday.

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.

Kerkyra Archaeological Museum displays archaeological finds from excavated sites across the island, most notably from Kanoni, Corfu's ancient capital.

Where we excavated these sites, like the Franco site, we did not find plazas and large platforms for buildings.

This partially excavated site isn't as polished as Xunantunich and Caracol, but that's part of

Many of the ruins have been consumed by the jungle, so venturing from one excavated site to another will usually involve light hiking through patches of large trees.

A major ceremonial center, and one of the country's larger excavated sites, the view from the largest pyramid — El Castillo — is remarkable.

A major Maya ceremonial center, and one of the countries larger excavated sites, the view from the largest pyramid El Castillo is remarkable.

Archeologists currently excavating the site are revealing burials and occupation levels from the Formative Period (2,500 years ago) on through the enormous fortifications of the 4th century Regional Development period; a scattering of late - period Inca structures seems like an afterthought on the top of the highest hill.

In several elaborate projects in the mid - to late «90s, Dion and a team of helpers excavated a site - always chosen to hold no real archaeological value - and extracted non-natural items (swizzle sticks, dolls, shards, bottle caps), cleaning, sorting and exhibiting them in neat rows according to material, shape or color in large wooden cabinets.

In the Whitney project for example — in which black vinyl sheets with white text will cover fencing around the excavated site and the roofs of trailers within it — her slogans will speak to the transformation of urban landscapes like the ultratrendy meatpacking district.

Not exact matches

Eloth was near Ezion - geber, the site of a commercial enterprise of Solomon, whose facilities for refining copper in the area have been excavated.

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.

But while archaeologists have identified many sites in the Chicago area, relatively few have been systematically excavated since there are too many sites for archaeologists to keep up with, she said.

The remains, thought to be over 5000 years old, had been excavated from the site in 2008 and are currently being kept for research by scientists at the University of Sheffield.

A one - half acre portion of the site, adjacent to the northwest corner of the canal, was excavated to create a small marsh where native aquatic plants were placed.

«The sites that have been excavated are those that the international community has prioritized, but you could see Greenlandic scientists targeting other ones, for example sites that are at risk of loss from climate change.»

Analyses of 33 newly excavated skeletons of people buried at the West Bank site, Qumran, supports a view that the community consisted of a religious sect of celibate men.

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.

The researchers examined artifacts previously excavated from the site, which are mostly flint tools for cutting and scraping, and flint debris created in their manufacture.

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.

A partial view of the site where archaeologists are excavating the ancient mound.

The group excavated clay samples from a site in the Limpopo River Valley, which borders Zimbabwe, South Africa, and Botswana.

The team contrasted Boncuklu with the nearby site of Pınarbaşı, excavated by Professor Baird in 2003 - 4.

A group of researchers working at the Els Casots site in the 1990s excavated the remains of a species of crocodile that was until then known only to have lived in southern France.

So in 2015, Junchang Lü of the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences in Beijing and colleagues returned to the site in China where the eggs were excavated.

She and her colleagues studied two of three dogs excavated at the Koster site in the 1970s and a dog unearthed at Stilwell II in 1960.

The dramatic site of Brak had been briefly excavated by Mallowan in the 1930s, but Christie found it not to her liking, since rainfall was too sparse for the flowers she loved to grow; they split their time with another ancient mound farther north with a slightly wetter climate.

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.

The Ayodhya site, excavated by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), is believed to be the birthplace of the immensely popular Hindu god Rama.

Then I started studying pan balance weights that we excavated from the site.