Sentences with phrase «from excavation sites»

In this 1984 silkscreen, Pop art forefather Robert Rauschenberg collages together imagery from excavation sites, parking lots, and stormy seas, alltogether creating a chaotic snapshot of American life.

A substantial number of Olorgesailie's Middle Stone Age tools are made from obsidian that came from at least 25 to 50 kilometers away from the excavation sites.

On the final day, the field team, along with excited members of the National Park Service and other spectators, nervously watched as the helicopter gently lifted the plaster jackets — some weighing a half of a ton or more — from the excavation site.

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Afterwards, test your dinosaur and dragon knowledge by trying to answer questions from the «Games of Bones» or pretend to be a paleontologist and dig through the excavation site.

Aerial laser maps, excavations and stone - slab hieroglyphics indicate that La Corona, a largely rural settlement, became a key part of a far - ranging Classic - era Maya kingdom that incorporated sites from southern Mexico to Central America, researchers reported on April 15 at...

Aerial laser maps, excavations and stone - slab hieroglyphics indicate that La Corona, a largely rural settlement, became a key part of a far - ranging Classic - era Maya kingdom that incorporated sites from southern Mexico to Central America, researchers reported on April 15 at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Lambert and his colleagues plan to return to the excavation site in Peru to see if they can find more whale fossils from different epochs.

Beach excavations on Canada's Calvert Island revealed 29 distinct human footprints (dark brown in this illustration of one excavation site) from around 13,000 years ago.

But the fossils from the Cerutti Mastodon site (as the site was named in recognition of field paleontologist Richard Cerutti who discovered the site and led the excavation), were found embedded in fine - grained sediments that had been deposited much earlier, during a period long before humans were thought to have arrived on the continent.

Nearby is another excavation site, the Jacovec Cavern, which some expect may come from an even older deposit than the one the 3.67 - million year old Little Foot was found within.

Lee Berger stands above the Malapa excavation site, in The Cradle of Humankind, from a viewing platform.

For example, you could make a model using photos from previous excavations of Viking graves, and use this to explore how an excavation site changes over time.

In an old excavation report Boyd read that archaeologists had discovered remnants of peyote cacti from a site near White Shaman.

Since then, excavations at Huaca Rajada, as the site near Sipan is known, have revealed the richest tombs ever uncovered in the Americas, which have yielded invaluable information about the mysterious Moche culture («Riches from the unlooted tomb», New Scientist, 17 October 1992).

The Palaeo - Anthropological Scientific Trust (PAST), launched with donations from mining giants Anglo American and De Beers, among others, hopes to attract regular funds from big business to support a range of activities, from excavations and exploration to the training of palaeo - anthropologists and encouragement of «archaeo - tourism» to South Africa's spectacular cave sites.

These objects are painting vivid pictures of life at the site now known as the Bathonea excavations, from the earliest days of the Lower Paleolithic era to the bustle of a busy trading port during the Byzantine Empire.

At one of the site's two excavations, the broken bits stick out from the earthen walls of a large square pit.

It includes data from the team's ongoing excavations at the sites of two ancient communities in the lower Yellow River flood plain of China's Henan province.

Kidder, an authority on river basin geoarchaeology, has gathered data from the Yellow River excavation sites over the last five summers.

Since the excavation, which took place in 2004, Francis has been carrying out a detailed analysis of evidence recovered from the site, including 80 undisturbed flint artefacts found scattered around the elephant carcass and used to butcher it.

In the field season 2014, the 60 - strong excavation team uncovered finds from all periods of the 2,000 - year history of the cult site, such as the thick enclosing wall of the first Iron Age sanctuary or the foundations of the main Roman temple of the god Jupiter Dolichenus, who became one of the most important deities of the Roman Empire in the 2nd century A.D.. His sanctuary is situated close to the town of Gaziantep on the 1,200 metres (3,900 feet) high mountain of Dülük Baba Tepesi.

Advosasio's focus of the excavation was on the extensive collection of basket remnants retrieved from the site, which were made from diverse materials including a local reed that is still used today by modern basket makers.

Moreover, the Somosaguas fossil site, due to its location within a university campus, gives to the general public the opportunity to visit it and learn all the details of the investigations that have been carried out from the data collected in the successive excavation campaigns.

Over the past year, archaeologists in protective suits, gloves, and face masks have begun collecting DNA straight from a fossil excavation site in Spain, drastically reducing the possibility of contamination.

By the end of the 2012 field season, excavations at the site, named Lomekwi 3, had uncovered 149 stone artifacts tied to tool - making, from stone cores and flakes to rocks used for hammering and others possibly used as anvils to strike on.

Initial test excavations also confirm the locations of scattered farmhouses and grave sites, said Yuqi Li, a doctoral student in the Department of Anthropology in Arts & Sciences who discovered the site with grant support from the National Geographic Society.

Harmand revealed that the excavation team found the tools from a site called Lomekwi 3, which is just west of Lake Turkana in Kenya.

excavation The process of systematically removing earth from a site to uncover buried remains, such as bones or artifacts.

Keezhadi excavation leads to ancient civilisation on the banks of Vaigai Carbon dating confirms Keezhadi site is from Sangam era Find listings of daytime and primetime ABC TV shows, movies and specials.

An era is a span of time defined for the purposes of chronology or historiography, as in the regnal eras in the history of a given monarchy, a calendar era Keezhadi excavation leads to ancient civilisation on the banks of Vaigai Carbon dating confirms Keezhadi site is from Sangam era

Keezhadi excavation leads to ancient civilisation on the banks of Vaigai Carbon dating confirms Keezhadi site is from Sangam era

Keezhadi excavation leads to ancient civilisation on the banks of Vaigai Carbon dating confirms Keezhadi site is from Sangam era 2,100 - year - old Jewish community found in Judea, dating back to Hasmonean period, 600 years earlier than previous finds at the site.

And finally there's a behind - the - scenes look at the history of the Western Wall and a tour of the Core Excavation site revealing unique archaeological findings from several periods of Jerusalem's 3,000 years of existence.

At the top of the hill (152 metres), the dig site is labelled with pictures from the time of the excavations.

The site is home to an array of relics, excavations and art from Pompeii.

ARCHAEOLOGY Collections include approximately 75,000 archaeological specimens from 200 sites encompassing the Santa Barbara area and the Northern Channel Islands representing all major periods of prehistory, from excavations by David Banks Rogers and Phil C. Orr during 1923 - 1968.

The three finest monuments from Satterthwaite's excavations are now displayed in the Bliss Institute, Belize City; many more remain at the site.

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Referencing a variety of planes, from tapestries, textiles and mountains to soccer fields and excavation sites, Rheingantz's landscapes feature fragmented memories of real and imagined locales.

This loan exhibition features some 100 works from the artist's extensive body of work and includes some wonderful portraits and landscapes including this wonderfully monochromatic yet richly textured depiction of a Pennsylvania excavation site.

Michael Kliën's Excavation Site: Martha Graham U.S.A. is curated by Travis Chamberlain, Associate Curator of Performance and Manager of Public Programs, with generous support from the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture and the Austrian Cultural Forum New York.

Each of these large paintings is an excavation site of sorts, archaeological and psychoanalytic, where the art - historical archive bubbles up from the realm of the unconscious through the painter's eyes.

But the plastic sheet is an important part of it as well, because he wants it to relay a feeling of excavation, like from an ancient burial site.»

Winter Exhibition: 1:1 Lou Mallozzi (Chicago) 1:1 is a site - specific installation based on two 2005 archeological excavations from the Krems - Wachtberg site in Vienna.

The exhibition also features related materials including maps tracing Albers's travels, letters and journals, images of the excavation sites, films, and undeveloped contact sheets drawn from the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation archives.

Large - scale archaeological excavations were in full swing at pre-Columbian sites like Monte Albán and Mitla in Oaxaca, and Josef and Anni took it all in with tremendous interest, exploring the ancient architecture and documenting their findings, as well as acquiring beloved pieces from marketplaces and merchants.

Their excavation began as an implicit response to a call for site - specificity, for commissioned work from the artist.

These causes can range from digging fence post holes in your backyard to operating heavy excavation equipment on a job site.

• Highly skilled in providing logistic support in erecting structures and performing demolition work • Demonstrated expertise in preparing work sites by clearing worksites by removing debris and hazardous materials • Deeply familiar with reading and interpreting blueprints and building plans to ensure appropriate construction planning • Exceptionally well - versed in installing structures and fixtures including walls, floors and doorframes • Proficient in measuring distances using grade stakes, drive stakes and tight - line stretching procedures • Adept at bolting, nailing, aligning and blocking under forms and structures • Familiar with handle physical work including digging trenches, laying pipes, backfilling excavations and compacting soil • Competent in loading and unloading items and equipment to and from delivery trucks in a safe and efficient manner • Qualified to signal equipment operators to facilitate alignment, movement and adjustment of machinery, equipment and materials • Frist - hand experience in laying down ground rules for workplace and worker safety • Proven ability to apply caulking compounds by hand or with caulking guns • Hands - on experience in sawing lumber, dismantling forms, removing projections and mounting pipe hangers • Special talent for leveling earth to fine grade specifications, in a bid to prepare construction sites

My experience encompasses all stages of the construction process from excavation and site work through superstructure enclosure, finishes and equipment installation in a variety of areas including new / renovation commercial, multi-family residential and heavy - civil projects.