Sentences with phrase «first excavated»

It was he who discovered the important murals at Santa Rita and first excavated at Lubaantun.

Zhoukoudian, not far from Beijing, then called Peking in the West, is the site of a cave first excavated by Franz Weidenreich starting in the late Twenties and during the decade of the Thirties.

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.

The tracks were made in a layer of volcanic soil at Fossil Lake, a site first excavated by UO science professor Thomas Condon in 1876 and today administered by the Bureau of Land Management.

Archaeologists first excavated the Cerutti Mastodon site in 1992, after the construction exposed bones.

First excavated in the 1990s from Utah's Neslen formation, Rhinorex had been studied primarily for its well - preserved skin impressions.

We first excavated two rural sites — Capilco and Cuexcomate — southwest of the modern city of Cuernavaca.

Researchers first excavated a strip of land that held hundreds of dwellings as well as other artifacts, according to William Doelle of Desert Archaeology Inc..

Cape Gelidonya was the first ancient wreck excavated in its entirety on the seabed, the first excavated by a diving archaeologist.

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!

She first excavates the roots of our corporate heartlessness» in our culture's disordered desires — what she describes as our culture's «addiction to consumerism,» its «idolatry of money» and its «massive failure of compassion» for other creatures and the earth.

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In 1989, Ahmed Zaki Yamani led a team that excavated the alleged Meccan home of Muhammad and his first wife, Khadijah, near the Grand Mosque.

The book is wealthy in new insights, revisionist interpretations, and excavated conclusions about Protestantism's response to all the great political, social, cultural and religious developments of the first two - thirds of the 20th century.

A landscaper by trade, he used his own equipment and time to excavate Northbrook «s first swimming pool in the newly developed Meadowhill Park in 1958 (now called the Ed Rudolph Meadowhill Park).

Explore the concept of chlorophyll fading from the leaves first by making a color, scratch, and reveal card or doing some leaf excavating in the salt tray.

The excavated terra cotta army of life - size soldiers, horses and chariots buried with the First Emperor of China some 23 centuries ago is an impressive sight now — but just imagine how the 8,000 - plus figures looked when new, covered in brightly colored paints.

The find comes from a 2,000 - year - old latrine that had first been excavated in 1992.

In the end, 37 wrecks were uncovered, including the first Byzantine galleys — slim, long warships — ever excavated, cargo - laden trading vessels and small sailing boats for local travel.

While excavating the fortress cellars in the 1980s, researchers began finding the teeth and bones of extinct animals from the early Pleistocene — the first clue to the site's prehistoric significance.

The vessel — the first completely excavated underwater — was carrying Near Eastern plaques, copper ingots, and other goods from the East to Greece, not vice versa.

First, fossil leaves and pollen excavated from the layers immediately below the K - T boundary show that the diversity of flowering plants substantially decreased in patches throughout the region before the extraterrestrial impact.

We could not go into the whole story behind the misnamed Apatosaurus fossil excavated by Othniel Marsh in the 1870s, so one of our sources suggested we call it «the first named Brontosaurus» — which it certainly is, whatever the correct designation.

Archaeologists excavating at the sprawling Buddhist complex of Bhamala Stupa, north of Islamabad, at first thought they were digging up yet another stone wall.

The new find isn't old enough to prove that the first Americans came down the coast, says Dillehay, who also excavated Monte Verde.

In this memoir, paleontologists Walker and Shipman splice stories of their adventures excavating the animal with an analysis of its biology — as revealed by current research and by Mary Leakey, who discovered the first Proconsul skull in Kenya in 1948.

Through a dialogue encouraged by Gil Stein, director of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, this year large numbers of Western archaeologists began to excavate Iranian sites for the first time since Iran's 1979 revolution.

This was the first dinosaur excavated by any American Museum expedition, and here I introduced the use of plaster of paris in excavating fossils.»

Hell Creek in particular, just north of Jordan in northeastern Montana, became famous when legendary paleontologist Barnum Brown excavated the first documented T. rex here in 1902.

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.

Ofer Bar - Yosef of Harvard University and colleagues excavated the cave again in 2009 and, for the first time, used radiocarbon dating to work out the age of the layers where the pottery shards were found.

Dadiwan, which was first settled about 8000 years ago and produced China's earliest known painted pottery, was excavated in the 1970s and again in 2006.

The late archeologist Junius B. Bird was the first to excavate Huaca Prieta in the late 1940s after World War II and his original collection is housed in the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

To date the deposits, Emslie and his coworkers measured out three pits of one square meter (about 10 square feet) at each site, then excavated samples at two - inch intervals, going down one to two feet until they reached the bottom layer of bird detritus, deposited when the site was first occupied.

First, here are the four sets of artifacts, all of which were excavated at real archaeological sites in Washington, DC.

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An unexpected sandstorm pre-empts the original tour, and the class instead discovers two researchers on the verge of excavating the tomb of Ikah - Mu - Kahma... Egypts first female ruler.

First footage of Drake's (potentially spoiler - ish) desert - going adventure is now in the wild, excavated from the recent Eurogamer Expo.

Then he takes us full circle back to India, where the first diamonds were excavated centuries ago, into the modern - day stone mills where diamonds are faceted by thousands of workers paid 10 cents per stone.

The first and second drafts of a book are when the scenes are coming together, and you are finding your story similarly to how an archaeologist would excavate «a fossil in the ground,» in the words of Stephen King.

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.

The first «playground» for your children is the Greek Theater, a masterpiece of acoustics, completely excavated in the rock and one of the largest theatres in the Greek world.

It was first recorded in 1984 and excavated between 1984 and 1994.

The third shares a similar feel, showing a first - person perspective of an excavated staircase.

This looked like a collective World War I fantasia being excavated for the first time.

This historical exhibition is the first of its kind to excavate histories of experimental art practice, collaboration, and exchange by a group of Los Angeles - based queer Chicanx artists between the late 1960s and early 1990s.

Among the works on display are Innoportune: Stage one (2004, installation consisting of nine cars and sequenced multichannel light tubes), Reflection — A Gift from Iwaki (2004, excavated wooden boat and porcelain), and Head On (wolves jumping head on against a glass wall, first realized for Cai Guo - Qiang's solo exhibition at the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin).

Researching official and unofficial records, media coverage, oral testimonies, and other relevant materials, Kent Chan is excavating a little - known episode of Singapore's curatorial history: the first group exhibition of Singaporean artists in Europe.

Justin Matherly: «All industrious people» (through April 27) The concrete casts in Mr. Matherly's first solo at Paula Cooper are modeled on stone reliefs from Mount Nemrud, an excavated temple in Turkey.

Reviewing the fertile melting pot of downtown New York in the late 1970s and early 1980s, The East Side Scene excavates the nightclubs and galleries where that decade's defining art was first exhibited.

Brand - New & Terrific: Alex Katz in the 1950s explores a formative decade of work for the painter, excavating the inspiration Katz drew from art historical predecessors, the early innovations in figural depiction, and the first portraits of his future wife Ada.