Sentences with phrase «excavation work in»

Owing to a reduction in clay and coal excavation works in the area, and canal trade, this seat has the highest unemployment rates of the three Stoke seats; this seat has 6.2 % of workless registered unemployment benefit claimants, compared to a national average of 3.8 % and regional average of 4.7 %.

Two historical structures and several artefacts dating back to the gold rush, have been discovered by contractors carrying out excavation works in Long Gully.

Not exact matches

These discoveries illustrate the important work that goes on at excavations across Israel every year, and just scratch the surface of what has been found in 2013.

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...

Here excavations indicate that the city (earlier and under a different name, the capital of the Hyksos Dynasty) was destroyed in the sixteenth century when the Hyksos were expelled, that reoccupation probably began shortly before 1300 B.C., and that work went on there under the first two kings of the Nineteenth Dynasty, Seti I (about 1310 - 1290 B.C.) and his son Rameses II (about 1290 - 1224 B.C.), who gave his name to the city.

The block on excavations has been the latest in a series of obstacles for archaeologists working in Egypt — the home of perhaps one - third of the world's antiquities, which reveal a vanished culture in unmatched detail (see «New research in an ancient land»).

Archaeologists working today are behind measurements and notes on excavations that may be used hundreds of years in the future.

[3] Excavation work on the site began in 1963 and recommenced in 2009.

Bretschneider led the German team from University of Mnster, which worked between 1992 and 2000 at the Euro - Syrian excavations at Tell Beydar, and is now excavating with a Syro - Belgian team in Tell Tweini (ancient Gibala) on the Syrian coast.

The documentation and finds from this excavation campaign form the basis for further scientific work, including in the form of university theses, which will be completed at the Goethe University in the near future.

When he finally received permission to run his own excavations, Sarianidi worked in northern Afghanistan during the relatively peaceful decades of the 1960s and 1970s.

It brings together the author's work on the southern coast of Peru and, by mixing the results of excavation with ethnographic analogy, presents a model of Nasca culture that adds significantly to our understanding of the complex societies in the Andes.

But when the archaeologist leading the excavation died in 1999, work stopped.

«We do not see overlapping tracks — overlapping tracks would occur if multiple tracks were made over a longer period while the sand was wet,» said Compton Tucker, a Goddard Earth scientist who helped with the excavation, coordinated bringing in multiple scientists to study the tracks, and has worked to create a display of the cast in Goddard's Earth science building.

«It is nothing short of a catastrophe,» said Michel al - Maqdissi, former head of excavations in Syria's antiquities department in Damascus, who now works at the Louvre in Paris and maintains contacts in Syria.

The excavation work at the site started after Harmand identified stone tools lying on the sandy surface in 2011.

Max returns in the daytime and helps Tim, who works in public schools but has taken to donning a call - me - hip leather jacket, with the excavation.

In some of the most striking passages in the new documentary I Am Not Your Negro, director Raoul Peck implicitly connects The Devil Finds Work with the tradition of Marlon Riggs's Ethnic Notions and Spike Lee's Bamboozled, films that reimagine cinematic history as a site of racial excavatioIn some of the most striking passages in the new documentary I Am Not Your Negro, director Raoul Peck implicitly connects The Devil Finds Work with the tradition of Marlon Riggs's Ethnic Notions and Spike Lee's Bamboozled, films that reimagine cinematic history as a site of racial excavatioin the new documentary I Am Not Your Negro, director Raoul Peck implicitly connects The Devil Finds Work with the tradition of Marlon Riggs's Ethnic Notions and Spike Lee's Bamboozled, films that reimagine cinematic history as a site of racial excavation.

With that in mind, Stanley begins to question the character - building component of their excavation work when a small metal item found in one of the holes brings their elusive female Warden (Sigourney Weaver) rushing out of her air - conditioned house and into the hot sun.

The timeline works well alongside other Historic England online resources, for example the teaching notes, presentations and activities exploring life in Bronze Age Britain through the exciting story of the recent excavation at Must Farm in Cambridgeshire; and a whole range of images for the period featuring archaeological sites around the country, tools and remains and modern reconstructions of homes and settlements.

Subsequent excavations show that this part of Roman culture was advanced for the time and rich in architecture, advanced infrastructures, and works of art.

The style of the book is like a memoir, with the intimate details and emotional excavation that I aspire to in my own work.

Work is still being carried out on excavation in this remote location.

South West Construction (www.southwestconstruction.bz) is a Belize construction and development company specializing in excavation, road construction and other construction work.

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The title of the show derives from a 1976 article, «The Apotheosis of the Crummy Space,» by Nancy Foote in Artforum, in which Foote celebrated the artistic use of spaces in abandoned buildings; her notion that such rooms in such buildings could be transformed by additions to or changes within them was, at the time, a powerful esthetic for Gordon Matta Clark's excavations of forsaken places in New York City, or by David Wojnarowicz's work a generation later.

For all the stuff in the attic or awaiting excavation, the work brings a new openness and ambiguity.

NEWS > Artnet News publishes list of most expensive women artists and New York - based Julie Mehretu (at right) ranks No. 5, earning the spot when her 2001 work «Retopistics: A Renegade Excavation» sold for $ 4.6 million at Christie's New Yok in 2013.

She ranks No. 5, earning the spot when her 2001 work «Retopistics: A Renegade Excavation» (above) sold for $ 4.6 million at Christie's New York in 2013.

His recent work engages in a broader excavation of American history to raise questions about the preservation of the past and the transference of power.

And the third painting in the series Excavation at Night (1908) though unfortunately over-varnished, particularly damaging for a very dark painting, but at the same time the shiny blackness of large areas of the work served to reinforce the connection I made between Bellows» choice and treatment of this subject and Robert Smithson «s observations on entropy in his 1967 essay «A Tour of the Monuments of Passaic, New Jersey.»

What makes de Kooning such a great artist may be something far more subtle, far more interior to painting itself and perhaps expressed best in his earlier works, those that are, again, often described as transitional, from figurative works of the early 40s to even abstractions such as Painting, Attic, or Excavation.

Drawing on extracts from apocalyptic works by Octavia Butler and Mary Shelley, the film employs a science fiction device which invites viewers to imagine the excavation and dissection of modern life from a future point in time.

Much as he once buried a plane that was no longer in use as a performative earth work, Hiorns hints here to an excavation of sorts, an unearthing of the forgotten social, political, consumer, industrial, mechanical elements of our society and resignification of these elements vis - à - vis the presence of the bodies of naked youth.

Excavations of the site, which was uncovered on land awaiting housing construction work, were due to end in mid-September but have now been extended until the end of 2017 by the French state.

Heizer's body of work culls from anthropology, another discipline rooted in Victorian ideology of conquest and acquisition, in its methodology (excavation), imagery (monumental), and time frame (epic).

Service in the Peace Corps in Liberia, West Africa, work on an archaeological excavation in Greece, study in Italy, and research travel in China continue to be important influences in her artwork.

While the poeticism of Bismuth's work may not have been made to shed light on the unprecedented political climate we face, his excavation of the failures of language, the emptying of speech and the complexities bound up in the process of deriving meaning from words and images has a particular relevance now.

Whitaker lived and worked in Chicago from 1991 until 2003, during which time she developed «Women in the City», a group of paintings observing the Chicago cityscape; and also, a series of large drawing / paintings on paper called «Ancestral Excavations» which have shown in solo venues around the country and now some of this work will be touring the United States in a group invitational, The Veiling: Visible and Invisible Spaces beginning in Colorado, the Spring of 2008, and traveling to Arkansas, Wisconsin, Connecticut, Indiana, SUNY in NY, California until 2010.

The works selected for this exhibition rely on retrospective, historiographical strategies, acts of excavation, collection or preservation, and an interest in archaeological methodologies.

Using a playful approach to methods of excavation, her work engages with cultural artifacts of the past in order to propose parallel worlds.

In this excerpt, sculptor Jeanne Silverthorne explores the various elements of a studio space while creating work about her excavations.

The title is important, pointing as it does to the aspect of excavation in the work.

Just as a ship's crew would «sound for fathoms» in the depths below, each artist presented here is at a deep point of excavation into their own working process.

Golden Kingdoms features works from recent excavations in Peru, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Mexico and explores artistic practices as well as the historical, cultural, social, and political conditions in which luxury arts were produced, alongside their religious meanings and ritual functions.

For Zurier, getting the paint on the surface economically seems a paramount concern, but his process does result in a fortuitous, non-hard-edged striation and an excavation of deeper layers of pigment that is central to the success of his work.

In 2013, her work reached a high mark when «Retopistics: A Renegade Excavation,» one of her large - scale abstract paintings sold for $ 4.6 million (including fees).

In the course of these negative excavations a form of auto - interrogation is at work, as Khan's «discoveries» question the ways in which accumulation can both reveal and obscure essencIn the course of these negative excavations a form of auto - interrogation is at work, as Khan's «discoveries» question the ways in which accumulation can both reveal and obscure essencin which accumulation can both reveal and obscure essence.

Metaphorically, the works» vain gestures of excavation reveal a center or origin that proves to be in constant evasion.

In 1967, inspired by his exploration of industrial areas in New Jersey, where he witnessed large - scale building excavations, he produced a series of works called Non-SiteIn 1967, inspired by his exploration of industrial areas in New Jersey, where he witnessed large - scale building excavations, he produced a series of works called Non-Sitein New Jersey, where he witnessed large - scale building excavations, he produced a series of works called Non-Sites.