Sentences with phrase «excavation team»
An excavation team refers to a group of people who dig and explore the ground or a particular site, usually in search of artifacts, fossils, or buried structures from the past. They use tools such as shovels, brushes, and trowels to carefully unearth and document their findings. Full definition
Martin, who studies Maya hieroglyphics, is not a member of the La Corona excavation team.
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Next, the researchers plan to organize a specialized underwater excavations team to learn more about the origins of the structure, including an investigation of the surface the structure was built on.
In the Dinaledi Chamber of the Rising Star cave system in South Africa, the H. naledi excavation team recovered at least one specimen from almost every single bone in the new species» foot.
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 Tepesi.
This photo shows members of the excavation team digging around the skeleton of Mystacodon selenensis at the Media Luna locality in the Pisco Basin, Peru.
But excavation teams were still amazed by what they found below the heavily trafficked Piazza Venezia while building the Metro C line subway extension between 2007 and 2011.
The excavation team also found the bodies of a teenager and a man with a fatal head injury, perhaps killed to accompany the maiden to the afterlife.
The excavation team has been exploring the temple of the soldier god Iuppiter Dolichenus for 17 years.
Why anyone in Jerusalem would be in possession of such «a very large quantity» of murex shells, however, remains a mystery to the excavation team, since the shells are not involved in the actual dye making process.
The excavation teams hope their work will help convey the importance of these little - known camps.
On the excavation team's last night at Gonur for the season, we picnic in the desert, reclining on rugs and pillows like Turkomans, toasting with vodka like Russians, and enjoying roast lamb as Oxus shepherds no doubt did four millennia ago.
The excavation team has classified all the hominins at the Georgia site as H. erectus, but they are so primitive and variable that researchers debate whether they belong in H. erectus, H. habilis, a separate species, H. georgicus — or a mix of all three, who may have inhabited the site at slightly different dates.
The vast majority regard their interest as a serious hobby, and often make up the bulk of the excavation teams as professionally guided volunteers.
«If you blow up a dolphin and make it skinnier then that is probably what Shonisaurus looked like,» says Motani, who was part of the excavation team (Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, vol 24, p 838).
The circular space, built of stones and adobe, was probably a social and religious gathering area, says German archaeologist Peter Fuchs, who led the dig's excavation team.
Harmard revealed that the excavation team has found about 20 flakes, anvils and cores in good condition.
Harmand revealed that the excavation team found the tools from a site called Lomekwi 3, which is just west of Lake Turkana in Kenya.
«There's a very good chance that the other half of the skull is there,» said Gregory P. Wilson, who co-led the excavation team and is a biology professor at the University of Washington, in a statement.
Along with this genome, the excavation team from the University of Barcelona has found other partial genomic data from Cova de l'Or in Alicante, Cova de la Sarsa in Valenica and Almonda in Portugal.
For this film, starring «American Horror Story» actor Denis O'Hare alongside Ashley Hinshaw, James Buckley, and others, centers on an excavation team who discover a strange three - sided pyramid in the Egyptian desert and find themselves in the midst of a sinister presence when they decide to go inside.
You remember nothing of past events, only that you're a member of an excavation team based in Antarctica.
Upon arriving at his land, he found an excavation team fast at work with an excavator and a couple of Tata trucks waiting in tow to ferry the excavated soil away.
Filing systems are helpful organizational tools that can rescue you from having to call in the excavation team to try to locate various important documents around your desk.