Sentences with phrase «from archaeological digs»

Gold Coins - They can be of historic nature if they are collected from any archaeological digs.

It's sourced from a reference book where the purpose is to catalogue findings from archaeological digs (Roman Southwark settlement and economy: excavations in Southwark 1973 - 91 Museum of London Archaeology, 2009); the language used needs to be richly descriptive, visual and precise to represent the artefact.

Evidence from archaeological digs suggests that aboriginal Aleuts were wiping out local otter populations as much as 2,500 years ago, and European fur traders all but finished the job by the end of the 19th century.

Dice from archaeological digs in the Netherlands and the UK became fairer 600 years ago — 250 years before we began to really understand probability

MG Many of your works feel like objects excavated from an archaeological dig.

Meaning is never exclusively derived from an archaeological dig into language divorced from the context of the times in which we live.

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(iii) you are a complete blowhard who has never studied one subject of university level biology, never been on an archaeological dig, never studied a thing about paleontology, geology, astronomy, linguistics or archaeology, but feel perfectly sure that you know more than the best biologists, archaeologists, paleontologists, doctors, astronomers botanists and linguists in the World because your mommy and daddy taught you some comforting stories from Bronze Age Palestine as a child.

His team — a Greek and two Sudanese archaeologists, a pair of conservators from Italy and Austria, and an American archaeological surveyor — are at the dig site today, trying to accomplish as much as they can before the sun rises higher in the sky and the desert temperatures soar beyond 100 degrees Fahrenheit.

An archaeological dig in a cave in the Moravian region of the Czech Republic has provided a timeline of evidence from 10 sedimentary layers spanning 28,000 to 50,000 years ago.

After being hidden for nearly 15,000 years, the lives of Ice Age hunter - gatherers who migrated to Europe to benefit from warmer climes are to be revealed in an archaeological dig at a very rare site in Bradgate Park, Leicestershire.

Do good results stem from a successful archaeological dig into the patient's subconscious, and an uncovering and disarming of «repressed» memories of childhood traumas?

Discovery of the 3,600 year old tomb of Woseribre - Senebkay, a previously unknown pharaoh, in an archaeological dig site in Egypt, has stumped archaeologists from the University of Pennsylvania, because this pharaoh appears to be one of the first rulers from the little - known Abydos dynasty.

Researchers digging at the Cerutti Mastodon site, an archaeological site from the early late Pleistocene epoch near San Diego, California, found animal...

Our canines are an adaptation to the enlarged cranium and the reduction of our jaw size (molars from dead humans that get dug up in archaeological diggings can get mistaken with molars of some other omnivores, funny isn't it).

Trainee teachers from Leeds Trinity University organised an archaeological dig for more than 60 students, aged 7 to 9 years, at a Primary School in Leeds.

But for those wishing to carry a long item back from their trip — whether it be a Mark Rothko from the Art Gallery or a newly discovered artefact from the latest archaeological dig — a loading length of 2245 mm and load capacity of 1930 litres is accessed by electronically raising the boot floor to meet the seat base, allowing the item to slide through effortlessly.

Behind the rear seats, the Cullinan offers 19 cubic feet of space with the seats up and 68 cubic feet with seats folded and cargo self in place - perfect for picking up a «Mark Rothko from the Art Gallery or a newly discovered artefact from the latest archaeological dig.»

From the archaeological impact of dug - up dung to early toilets in ancient Greece, Rome, Egypt, and China to the devastating effects a lack of hygienic waste disposal had in early London, it seems as though every bowels - related question possible has been answered.

When Theo's mother returns from her latest archaeological dig bearing the Heart of Egypt — a legendary amulet belonging to an ancient tomb — Theo learns that it comes inscribed with a curse so black and vile that it threatens to crumble the British Empire from within and start a war too terrible to imagine.

What if you were studying for your Ph.D. in archaeology and decided to take a break from your crummy life by working on an archaeological dig in Israel?

Miniature greyhounds are seen in 2,000 - year - old artifacts from what's now modern - day Turkey and Greece, and archaeological digs have turned up small Greyhound skeletons.

During an archaeological dig on Hatteras Island in 1998, archaeologists discovered a 10 - carat gold English signet ring from the 16th century, among other artifacts.

Add such interesting themes as a military base, an old school steakhouse and an archaeological dig site, and you've also got environments that are both different from the norm and brought to life brilliantly by the paper art style.

A studio - cum - museum - cum - laboratory lies at the heart of the show, displaying sculptures made by the artist, but presented as if they have been discovered in some future archaeological dig, perhaps another 208 years from now.

The exhibition is complemented by continuous screenings of Border (2000), a Kafkaesque, «fictional» documentary shot on the highly charged Israel / Lebanon border that muses on the ultimate validity of such an arbitrary designation, while attempting to locate and cross it; and The Making of Makom (2008), a video charting the construction of a sculptural project where the artist gathers and annotates, as in an archaeological dig, 60 tons of building stones from the remains of Palestinian and Israeli houses to build a deceptively simple structure.

Obviously New York has seen a new Museum of Modern Art rising from a virtual archaeological dig of midtown Manhattan.

With a grant from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, Mr. Twombly spent a year with Rauschenberg in Rome and Morocco, where he worked an archaeological dig of Roman ruins.

Presented as a raised floor built from the original 24 - packs, the installation evokes at once a stage, an archaeological dig, and an interior mall plaza — completely subsuming the gallery floor and casting a phosphorescent blue light on the white - cube space.