Sentences with phrase «found by archaeologists»

The oldest carbonized sample of the crop found by archaeologists in the Pacific dates to about 1000 C.E. — nearly 500 years before Columbus's first voyage.

Archaeologists can apply for the time limit to be extended, but nevertheless there is an expectation that all human remains found by archaeologists will eventually be reburied, thus ending any scientific use.

A summary statement cites a claim by a «respected scholar, Dr. J. O. Kinnaman,» that «of the hundreds of thousands of artifacts found by the archaeologists, not one has ever been discovered that contradicts or denies one word, phrase, clause or sentence of the Bible, but always confirms and verifies the facts of the Biblical record.»

The remains of the medieval church where William Wallace is thought to have been made Guardian of Scotland after defeating the English army has been found by archaeologists.

Such startling propositions - the product of findings by archaeologists digging in Israel and its environs over the last 25 years - have gained wide acceptance among non-Orthodox rabbis.

Such startling propositions — the product of findings by archaeologists digging in Israel and its environs over the last 25 years — have gained wide acceptance among non-Orthodox rabbis.

Not exact matches

What it's about: Archaeologist and professional swashbuckler Indiana Jones (played by Harrison Ford) is hired by the United States government to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis do.

First found by Bedouin herdsmen, later archaeologists have gathered 17,000 fragments of Jewish texts dating to the time of Jesus.

Ceramic evidence indicates occupation of the City of David, within present - day Jerusalem, as far back as the Copper Age (c. 4th millennium BCE) with evidence of a permanent settlement during the early Bronze Age (c. 3000 — 2800 BCE) The Execration Texts, which refer to a city called Roshlamem or Rosh - ramen] and the Amarna letters (c. 14th century BCE) may be the earliest mention of the city Some archaeologists, including Kathleen Kenyon, believe Jerusalem] as a city was founded by Northwest Semitic people with organized settlements from around 2600 BCE.

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.

Peppersauce bottles have been found, excavated, and uncovered intact in shipwrecks, factories, and trash dumps by bottle diggers / collectors and archaeologists.

The ERS was founded in January 1884 as the Proportional Representation Society by the Victorian naturalist, archaeologist and polymath John Lubbock.

Using hand trowels, laser levels and a suction tube to draw disturbed sediment to the surface for screening, the underwater archaeologists found six stone artefacts that had clearly been made by people.

Archaeologist João Zilhão of the University of Bristol in England and his colleagues found 50,000 - year - old perforated painted seashells and pigment containers on the Iberian Peninsula in southwestern Europe, a region that was inhabited solely by Neandertals at the time.

«Our findings challenge the theory held by many archaeologists that Levallois technology was invented in Africa and spread to Eurasia as the human population expanded.

Michael Meyer, an archaeologist at the Free University of Berlin, who was not part of the team but who attended a press conference about the discovery last week, says that any of the elements by themselves wouldn't have been convincing, but together the find is compelling.

Archaeologists have found clever ways to uncover ancient humans» impact on today's jungles, from ancient collagen in bones to laser scanning by aircraft.

The new finds reveal a vast range of body sizes for ancient members of the human evolutionary family, reports an international team led by archaeologists Fidelis Masao and Elgidius Ichumbaki, both of the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania.

The rare arid conditions of Timna have resulted in unparalleled preservation of organic materials usually destroyed by the march of time: bones, seeds, fruits, and even fabric dating back to the 10th century B.C. Using a technique called «wet sieving,» the archaeologists found miniscule animal and fish bones, evidence of a rich and diverse diet.

The researchers found that three sites lack absolute age control: at Chobot, Alberta, the three Clovis points found lack stratigraphic context, and the majority of other diagnostic artifacts are younger than Clovis by thousands of years; at Morley, Alberta, ridges are assumed without evidence to be chronologically correlated with Ice Age hills 2,600 kilometers away; and at Paw Paw Cove, Maryland, horizontal integrity of the Clovis artifacts found is compromised, according to that site's principal archaeologist.

Archaeologists working on the eastern coast of England have found a series of footprints that were made by human ancestors sometime between one million and 780,000 years ago.

In 2016, a team led by University of Victoria archaeologist April Nowell and her colleague Cam Walker, a biological anthropologist with Archaeological Investigations Northwest Inc. in Portland, Ore., used CIEP to analyze tools found at a 250,000 - year - old animal processing site in Jordan's Shishan Marsh.

Chinese archaeologists led by Qiang Ji of Nanjing University found the well - preserved fossil, including impressions of soft tissue and fur, in the Jiulongshan Formation in Inner Mongolia.

For example, archaeologists in the Chilean deserts found well preserved mummies whose medical conditions at time of death could be determined by autopsy (Discover, October).

These new findings, published this week online by the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science, are an important key to the puzzle of how technology emerged as humans dispersed across the globe, says archaeologist Ofer Bar - Yosef at Harvard University, who, like Straus, did not participate in this study.

The strangest and most significant find, however, was a soil layer down by the beach that looked like nothing MacGillivray had ever seen in four decades as a field archaeologist.

By the 1980s, coastal archaeologists were beginning to mull over some remarkably early finds in Australia.

But many archaeologists remained unconvinced by the findings, seeing little clear difference between projectile marks and cut marks from butchering.

A study led by physical geographer at Southampton Professor Tony Brown, in collaboration with archaeologist Dr Laura Basell at Queen's University Belfast, has found that sites popular with our early human ancestors, were abundant in foods containing nutrients vital for a balanced diet.

In 2011, archaeologists needed to find out whether parts of ancient Egyptian boats were hidden in dangerously unstable humanmade caves by the Red Sea.

When their early finds seemed to challenge Meggers's vision of the pre-Columbian Amazon, they turned to a model proposed by Donald Lathrap, an archaeologist at the University of Illinois.

It was discovered in 1964 by archaeologist Nikolai Dikov, who found spear points and tools that he carbon - dated to about 14,300 years old.

Led by archaeologist Alessandro Vanzetti of the University of Rome, La Sapienza, the researchers say that Ötzi's body and artifacts were in fact carefully placed on a stone platform 5 meters away from where the body was later found.

«Some of the artifacts found right under the ash were almost certainly made by modern humans,» says John Hoffecker, a University of Colorado archaeologist working at the site.

Willerslev and colleagues, who report their findings tomorrow in Nature, went to great lengths to show that the sample was not contaminated by modern DNA — a concern because the hair had been handled by archaeologists and stored in a museum.

But here's the twist: Archaeologists previously had found the remains of dogs in Germany that may be more than 16,000 years old, suggesting that dogs had already been domesticated in Europe by the time the Asian canines got there.

«By locating a spot mentioned in the papyrus,» says Taylor, «archaeologists now have a better chance to find other tombs still missing.»

Studying dental plaque from a 1.2 million year old hominin (early human species), recovered by the Atapuerca Research Team in 2007 in Sima del Elefante in northern Spain, archaeologists extracted microfossils to find the earliest direct evidence of food eaten by early humans.

The archaeologists analysed 16 samples of microscopic plant remains from ten different time periods found during excavations during 2014 led by the University of São Paulo in South West Amazonia.

The findings show that the cityscape at the heart of the Khmer Empire of the 9th to 15th centuries C.E. was much more sprawling and complex than archaeologists realized and lend weight to the hypothesis that, strained by climate change, the complexity of the kingdom's vast waterworks was its ultimate undoing.

To find out whether the bodies themselves could shed some light on the debate, a team led by archaeologist Douglas Kennett of Pennsylvania State University in State College analyzed their remains, found in room 33 of the Pueblo Bonito complex and now stored at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, using DNA sequencing.

An international team led by archaeologist João Zilhão of the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom examined three cockleshells from Aviones that were perforated near their hinges and found lying alongside lumps of yellow and red pigments.

A team led by Higham and Ron Pinhasi, an archaeologist at University College Cork in Ireland, used the latest techniques to radiocarbon date the skull bones of a 1 - or 2 - year - old Neandertal infant found at the site, which has been under excavation by a Russian team since 1987.

However, many archaeologists are skeptical of the findings, which push back the established date of human settlement in the Americas by over a 100,000 years.

A similar fish trap was found in 2007 at Spencer Dock on the River Liffey by archaeologist Melanie McQuaid.

Hired by an ambitious small - town pastor to find sacred relics in the Holy Land, a self - proclaimed Biblical archaeologist comes up short and his attempt to cover up his failure fuels a comic conspiracy from the filmmaking team behind Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre.

However, archaeologists realized in 1978 that Franciscan monks had corrupted the name from «Lam «an / ayin» to «Lamanai,» and that adding the correct suffix of «ayin» changed the meaning of the name to submerged crocodile, a conclusion supported by the large number of crocodile representations found at Lamanai, including figurines, pottery decorations and the headdress of a 13 foot limestone mask found on a 6th century temple platform.

Akumal was founded for scuba divers by Pablo Bush Romero, a Mexican businessman, diver, writer, historian, and archaeologist.

More than one observer likened Mr. Segal's work to the monochromatic figure casts created by archaeologists to record the postures of Romans found at Pompeii.

Like some future archaeologist finding an ancient machine and trying to figure out what it is by plugging it in and letting it run — seeing what it makes.»