Sentences with phrase «for archaeologists»

It's becoming increasingly common for archaeologists to have a postgraduate qualification.

The complexities of acting in this way largely relate to good communication with all parties and where necessary liaison with local or community groups to co-ordinate responses and ensure evidence is focussed, consistent and adheres to professional standards such as those of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists or Landscape Institute (for visualisations).

It can even be useful for archaeologists who look at human migration routes, and are interested to see how the European environment developed over the last 20 000 years.»

But for archaeologists, everyday objects are material evidence, full of meaning that helps us realign the deeper truth of experience with the stories we tell about who we are and how we live.

Knowing that leopard spotting horses were present during the Pleistocene in Europe provides new arguments or insights for archaeologists to interpret cave arts.»

The journal provides an international forum for archaeologists and scientists from widely different scientific backgrounds who share a common interest in developing and applying scientific methods to inform major debates through improving the quality and reliability of scientific information derived from archaeological research.

All of Iraq is not created equal — at least not for archaeologists.

For archaeologists, Afghanistan is virtually off - limits for fieldwork, as Taliban forces battle the Kabul government in far - flung provinces and security remains tenuous even in the capital.

Yet that abandonment turned their ancient misfortune into a stroke of luck for archaeologists today.

The find puts to rest one mystery but leaves many questions for archaeologists and pre-Columbian scholars, including: Why did the Olmecs stop carving jade?

Commercial work now accounts for 93 percent of the archaeological research done in the United Kingdom, and academics must take note of the data generated by contract units, says Kenneth Aitchison, head of projects and professional development at the Institute for Archaeologists, the body representing commercial archaeologists in Britain.

Although the villages are a great find for archaeologists, Duncan Metcalfe, a curator of the Utah Museum of Natural History, suspects they will be underwhelming to tourists.

For archaeologists, diet is not just a question of what people had for dinner.

The use by Kirch and Sharp opens up a new world of accuracy for archaeologists trying to understand human development in the deep past.

There are also prospects for archaeologists, geologists, environmental scientists, and geographers who are more scientifically inclined.

The effect of bottom trawling is «devastating» for archaeologists, agrees Robert Ballard, an oceanographer based at the University of Rhode Island in Narragansett, who has pioneered deep - sea exploration and discovered the wreck of the Titanic in 1985.

For archaeologists and historians peering backward, the maps help match up accounts of long - ago eclipses with actual paths.

For archaeologists at a dig, the painstaking work known as picking is an everyday routine.

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»).

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.

Will Federal money be used for archaeologists to find those magic sunglasses????? What about those magic underwear??

Actually never ended up back in AK after that trip... live in TX now, and that via working for an archaeologist in Israel.

In winter months, it's also a hard place for an archaeologist.

Interestingly enough, the player doesn't really ever land or stop the plane, but is always flying to explore for the Archaeologist.

If you are looking for employment within the field of archaeology, be aware that you will need to possess the following skills for an archaeologist position.

Not exact matches

That being an archaeologist is romantic and exciting and that we are always searching for important treasure.

He's also a swashbuckling archaeologist, and goes missing on the hunt for the Holy Grail.

Archaeologists who look for pottery sherds will not see coins, and, conversely, those who look for coins will not find sherds.

The city intends to use this time to establish the principles for commercial archaeologists in the crypto currencies, having in mind the protection of the inhabitants before payment of enhanced cost of using electrical energy.

I've always imagined that Browning was talking about the ruins of the Roman Forum, which for centuries, before the archaeologists started to dig, were known as the Campo Vaccino, or cow pasture.

8) «This conclusion serves to corroborate the inference made by Soviet archaeologists from their discovery of camel - headed wagons that as early as the first half of the third millennium B.C. two - humped camels were used in Turkmenistan for drawing wagons...» The Camel and the Wheel, Richard W. Bulliet p155

Her findings help to explain a puzzle that has vexed archaeologists for 50 years.»

In 2004, the auxiliary bishop of Warmia diocese, Jacek Jezierski, invited eminent archaeologist Jerzy Gassowski to conduct a new search for the body.

Israeli archaeologist Yosef Garfinkel announced earlier this week several findings which may contribute toward a positive case for the veracity of biblical history, in particular the question of whether a centralized Israelite kingdom existed during the era of the biblically purported King David....

The research of the archaeologist, historian and philologist supplies him with material for the study of religious groupings from the beginnings of history to the present day.

That being said, not many people are aware of these anomalies on our planet since there is no formal teaching which questions religions and / or deductions of our archaeologists; for this reason, we can not blame anyone who has been raised with strict religious doctrine wishing to display their religious symbol.

So, for instance, when archaeologists discovered the house of a descendent of Muhammad, King Fahd had it bulldozed so that it could not become a pilgrimage destination.

Archaeologists draw conclusions about earlier civilizations, often from items that have lain buried for thousands of years.

Imagine, for example, that an archaeologist has unearthed dozens of carefully cut stone blocks of precisely the same size neatly aligned on top of one another.

Indeed, all we can know about this people is here preserved, for they left no monuments, or buildings, or inscriptions from which the archaeologist might recapture their ancient civilization.

The National Geographic Society, in a 1988 letter to the Institute for Religious Research, stated «Archaeologists and other scholars have long probed the hemisphere's past and the society does not know of anything found so far that has substantiated the Book of Mormon.»

Archaeologists worked out the basics of pottery dating by the 1920s, for example, and Carbon 14 dating entered the picture in 1933.

In 1993 - 94, for example, archaeologists excavating at Tell Dan in modern Israel discovered two fragments of an inscription that refers to «the house of David.»

Fellow archaeologist John Garstang insisted that this could not possibly be true and set about (with further excavations at Jericho and soundings at Ai and Hazor) to restore archaeological support for the historicity of the conquest.

Although the site was originally dated to the time of Joshua, most scholars accepted the later work of British archaeologist Kathleen Kenyon who argued that this period of Jericho's turbulent history was too early for the time of Joshua.

In an interview with ABC's Christiane Amanpour the archaeologist who discovered the Titanic discussed his findings from his search in Turkey for evidence of a civilization swept away by a monstrous ancient flood.

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...

While doing restorations at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a team of archaeologists removed a large marble structure that had been in place for nearly five centuries, hiding the surface of the «burial slab.»

Any of us could understand a God who would not wish to destroy a city that had become a center of civilization, whose king ruled over millions of people, whose architectural wonders would awe archaeologists for centuries to come, and whose roads spread in every direction.

Archaeologists found lentil seeds dating back to the Bronze Age, so they've been with us for some time.