Sentences with phrase «excavation site in»

After you have cleared out the excavation site in The City of the Sun, look for this vessel in the middle of the area where you had to fight the two Corrupters.
Hence, there are entries for Constantinople, Ethiopia, and Ibahernando, an excavation site in modern Spain.
Over the past year, archaeologists in protective suits, gloves, and face masks have begun collecting DNA straight from a fossil excavation site in Spain, drastically reducing the possibility of contamination.
Lambert and his colleagues plan to return to the excavation site in Peru to see if they can find more whale fossils from different epochs.
A construction - company owner was indicted in the death of a worker at an excavation site in 2015, the Brooklyn district attorney's office said.
Excavation sites in regards to construction often involve digging holes, tunnels or trenches in a designated area for site development, or sometimes site exploration.

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This scene of the two visiting an excavation site with Elio's father was shot in Sirmione, a town on the coast of Lake Garda.
Consider this... a person goes to college, gets a four year degree in archaeology (or some antiquities preservation analog); spends summers sifting through sand and rock and gravel, all the while taking graduate level classes... person eventually obtains the vaunted PhD in archaeology... then works his / her tail off seeking funding for an archeological excavation, with the payoff being more funding, and more opportunities to dig in the dirt... do you think professional archaeologists are looking hard for evidence of the Exodus on a speculative basis... not a chance... they know their PhD buys them nothing more than a job at Tel Aviv Walmart if they don't discover and publish... so they write grants for digs near established sites / communities, and stay employed sifting rock in culturally safe areas... not unless some shepard stumbles upon a rare find in an unexpected place do you get archeological interest and action in remote places... not at all surprising that the pottery and other evidence of the Exodus and other biblical events lie waiting to be discovered... doesn't mean not there... just not found yet...
Excavations at Al Wusta, a site in Saudi Arabia's Nefud desert, produced this diminutive discovery.
Beach excavations on Canada's Calvert Island revealed 29 distinct human footprints (dark brown in this illustration of one excavation site) from around 13,000 years ago.
«They have evidence that hominids in Africa had already been impacting the size distribution of mammals on that continent before Homo sapiens evolved,» says paleoecologist Emily Lindsey, assistant curator and excavation site director of the La Brea Tar Pits Museum in Los Angeles, who was not involved in the study.
When excavations began in 2012, the research team examining the site was surprised to find a large number of quintessential Chinese goods inside.
But the fossils from the Cerutti Mastodon site (as the site was named in recognition of field paleontologist Richard Cerutti who discovered the site and led the excavation), were found embedded in fine - grained sediments that had been deposited much earlier, during a period long before humans were thought to have arrived on the continent.
Articulated skeleton of Ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaur at the excavation site south of Lodai village, situated 30 km northeast of Bhuj town, the headquarters of Ka - chchh District in Gujarat state, western India.
The evidence we found at this site indicates that some hominin species was living in North America 115,000 years earlier than previously thought,» said Judy Gradwohl, president and CEO of the San Diego Natural History Museum, whose paleontology team discovered the fossils, managed the excavation, and incorporated the specimens into the Museum's research collection.
The walls of such excavation sites are so thick with fossils that they protrude in an almost comical abundance.
Excavation of an ancient battlefield in northern Germany revealed signs of a great battle, such as closely packed bones, as seen in this 2013 photo of the site.
Lee Berger stands above the Malapa excavation site, in The Cradle of Humankind, from a viewing platform.
ROCK ON Excavations at a site in India yielded these sharpened stones, among others.
Barely 2 weeks after completing an excavation of the 6 - hectare site, ASI reported uncovering evidence of 50 pillar bases characteristic of those found at remains of Hindu temples in north India.
The next step is likely to be able to put on a pair of 3D - glasses and virtually walk into an excavation site, although that may be a few years in coming.
Excavation of the mastodon site occurred in 1992 and 1993 following its partial exposure during a construction project.
[3] Excavation work on the site began in 1963 and recommenced in 2009.
«In three new excavation sites, we found Neanderthal artefacts dated to thousands of years later than anywhere else in Western EuropIn three new excavation sites, we found Neanderthal artefacts dated to thousands of years later than anywhere else in Western Europin Western Europe.
When a possible Viking grave was found in Skaun in Sør - Trøndelag in 2014, the excavation site was mapped using photogrammetry.
Ibrahim (right, with colleagues in Morocco) used his native Arabic skills to persuade local amateur fossil hunters to take him to promising excavation sites rather than have them bring their finds to him.
Java Man was reclassified in the 1950s as Homo erectus and is now called Trinil 2, in reference to the excavation site.
In an old excavation report Boyd read that archaeologists had discovered remnants of peyote cacti from a site near White Shaman.
In order to make the excavation site near the ancient town of Doliche accessible to a broad public, an archaeological park is being developed.
Since then, excavations at Huaca Rajada, as the site near Sipan is known, have revealed the richest tombs ever uncovered in the Americas, which have yielded invaluable information about the mysterious Moche culture («Riches from the unlooted tomb», New Scientist, 17 October 1992).
In addition to straight - forward archaeological research, the excavation is being used as a field school for the instruction of UNC Charlotte students in archaeology, especially since the site is remarkable in the way it exhibits the complexity of the urban history of JerusaleIn addition to straight - forward archaeological research, the excavation is being used as a field school for the instruction of UNC Charlotte students in archaeology, especially since the site is remarkable in the way it exhibits the complexity of the urban history of Jerusalein archaeology, especially since the site is remarkable in the way it exhibits the complexity of the urban history of Jerusalein the way it exhibits the complexity of the urban history of Jerusalem.
Unlike paleontologists and archaeologists, who condemn amateur hunters and merchants for destroying excavation sites, many meteoriticists see the commercial traffic in meteorites as a boon — even a necessity — to science.
His excavations in the Missouri Breaks — the site of the renowned T. rex burial ground in Hell Creek — yielded not only Tyrannosaurus but also the bizarre Pachycephalosaurus, whose head was topped with a 10 - inch - thick crown of solid bone, and the best - known horned dinosaur, Triceratops.
Over the years, excavation expanded beyond the original site, called Açutuba, toinclude other spots in a 20 - square - mile area on the peninsula that juts between the Amazon and Rio Negro rivers.
The late archaeologist Peter Beaumont of the McGregor Museum in Kimberley, South Africa, who did many excavations at the site between 1978 and 1996, had claimed there was evidence for fire in various spots, in 1.6 - to 1.7 - million - year - old layers.
It includes data from the team's ongoing excavations at the sites of two ancient communities in the lower Yellow River flood plain of China's Henan province.
It is the largest trove of fossils of a hominin ever found in Africa — and more await excavation at the site, 50 kilometers northwest of Johannesburg.
It is the largest trove of fossils of a hominin ever found in Africa — and more await excavation at the site in the Cradle of Humankind, 50 kilometers northwest of Johannesburg.
The first excavations of an amazingly well - preserved archaeological site offer an unprecedented glimpse into Bronze Age life in the British Isles
In recent years, an excavation at the site of the Brochtorff Circle on Gozo has uncovered important evidence about the prehistoric rituals of death.
A visitors» trail signposted in three languages, which was completed in 2013, leads to central areas of the excavation site.
Since the excavation, which took place in 2004, Francis has been carrying out a detailed analysis of evidence recovered from the site, including 80 undisturbed flint artefacts found scattered around the elephant carcass and used to butcher it.
In the field season 2014, the 60 - strong excavation team uncovered finds from all periods of the 2,000 - year history of the cult site, such as the thick enclosing wall of the first Iron Age sanctuary or the foundations of the main Roman temple of the god Jupiter Dolichenus, who became one of the most important deities of the Roman Empire in the 2nd century A.D.. His sanctuary is situated close to the town of Gaziantep on the 1,200 metres (3,900 feet) high mountain of Dülük Baba TepesIn the field season 2014, the 60 - strong excavation team uncovered finds from all periods of the 2,000 - year history of the cult site, such as the thick enclosing wall of the first Iron Age sanctuary or the foundations of the main Roman temple of the god Jupiter Dolichenus, who became one of the most important deities of the Roman Empire in the 2nd century A.D.. His sanctuary is situated close to the town of Gaziantep on the 1,200 metres (3,900 feet) high mountain of Dülük Baba Tepesin the 2nd century A.D.. His sanctuary is situated close to the town of Gaziantep on the 1,200 metres (3,900 feet) high mountain of Dülük Baba Tepesi.
The problem is that excavation destroys sites, and we're in a crisis of sorts — as serious or more serious than deforestation — because while you can regrow trees, you sure can't regrow archaeological sites.
«In the 19th and earlier 20th century excavation of caves such as at Creswell Crags and Cheddar Gorge provided the first evidence for the archaeology of this period but open air sites were missing pieces of the jigsaw.
Moreover, the Somosaguas fossil site, due to its location within a university campus, gives to the general public the opportunity to visit it and learn all the details of the investigations that have been carried out from the data collected in the successive excavation campaigns.
The 11,000 - year - old site consists of a series of at least 20 circular enclosures, although only a few have been uncovered since excavations began in the mid-1990s.
Ten years of excavation at a dig site an hour south of Madrid revealed the nearly complete fossil of a newly identified giraffe ancestor species, scientists reported Wednesday in PLOS ONE.
The ancient site was at risk in the brick quarry, so Historic England, a government agency, and the brick company Forterra funded an excavation.
A 2,700 - year - old portico was discovered this summer on the site of the ancient city of Argilos in northern Greece, following an archaeological excavation led by Jacques Perreault, Professor at the University of Montreal's Centre of Classical Studies and Zisis Bonias, an archaeologist with the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports.
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