Sentences with phrase «help archaeologists»

The discovery, published in the 7 March issue of Science, could help archaeologists confirm or revise what they know about prehistory.

The data will help archaeologists trace a central locus of the Silk Road linking Europe and China.

However, the researchers in today's study suggest their work could help archaeologists to take a fresh look at the development of urbanisation in early civilisations.

Such 3D scans will help archaeologists preserve heritage in politically unstable regions, Collins says, while also allowing students and researchers around the world to access a piece of history.

«The work of renovation should help archaeologists and historians gain a better sense of the tomb, which was damaged and greatly reduced by the fourth - century construction of the church,» Evans said.

Organic remains excavated in and around the caves helped the archaeologists reconstruct an environment very different from the expanse of sand and stone that surrounds the dig today.

Just as the probe's namesake Rosetta Stone helped archaeologists translate Egyptian hieroglyphs, researchers hope the ambitious mission will help them decipher the early history of our solar system.

The find is helping archaeologists figure out how two Maya superpowers functioned during a long - running war.

For example, Fiorini's team has helped archaeologists to settle a debate about the ship's route.

In one Penn lab, a stone - sculpting machine is helping archaeologists solve long - held mysteries of very old tools.

Tiny mouse teeth helped archaeologists find clues of how these animals lived nearly 15,000 years ago.

These include everything from temples to plazas and dwellings, and some have been instrumental in helping archaeologists uncover important information about history and past civilizations.

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

(CNN)- Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed relics from an apocalyptic plague that some Christians believed heralded the end of the world - an idea that likely helped spread the faith centuries ago.

Most archaeologists have deciphered history in 200 - year increments, but Finkelstein now can narrow construction, destruction and other events in antiquity to within as little as three decades, helping him refine the archaeological clock.

Forensic scientists such as pathologists, archaeologists and geneticists helped to identify the «disappeared,» victims of Argentina's military dictatorship killed between 1976 and 1983.

But Iraqi - born archaeologist Selma al - Radi, a consultant for the National Museum in Yemen, spied the grandeur beneath the rubble and grime - «impeccable, perfect materials and perfect proportions» - and began a determined restoration with help from the Dutch and Yemeni governments.

Roberts co-led the study with archaeologist colleague Thomas Sutikna (who also helped coordinate the 2003 dig), and Matthew Tocheri, a paleoanthropologist at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Canada.

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

This past February the Origins Project that I direct at Arizona State University helped to convene an interesting meeting of paleontologists, anthropologists, primatologists, evolutionary biologists, geneticists, archaeologists and psychologists to attempt to address such questions, among others.

Dogfish Head Craft Brewery in Delaware is producing a drink based on the original recipe, with the help of biomolecular archaeologist Patrick McGovern of the University of Pennsylvania Museum, who aided in the Honduran study.

For now, Gibson says, archaeologists can do little to help stop the destruction.

She is helping Hiebert, who is now an archaeologist with the National Geographic Society in Washington, D.C., track down the precursors to the Oxus culture.

They are widely used by archaeologists to help plan excavations, and by developers, who often include them in planning applications to show that they have considered the environmental and archaeological impact of their proposals.

Genome archaeologists like Dekker have invented and deployed molecular excavation techniques for uncovering the genome's architecture with the hope of finally discerning how all of that structure helps to orchestrate life on Earth.

During a 1996 conference, Manuel Domínguez - Rodrigo, an archaeologist at the Complutense University of Madrid, invited Serrallonga to help him on a human - origins expedition in northern Tanzania.

Modern - day brewers, with help from archaeologists, have attempted to re-create ancient brews.

A Model Archaeologist P. Shulman, 22 December 2006 Former fashion model Amanda Adams helps places tell their stories.

Archaeologists hope such systems will eliminate the need for large excavations and help locate artifacts lodged under ruins.

It is our job as archaeologists and ecologists to go out and get the data, to help to make more sophisticated models.»

«The new images and site plan help tell the story of a largely forgotten casualty of the attack,» Hans Van Tilburg, a maritime archaeologist with NOAA and the team's coordinator, said in a statement.

Museum archaeologists have helped to uncover clues to the people who lived in North Africa 15,000 years ago.

Many archaeologists hoped that designating Bears Ears a national monument would help to mitigate this damage by boosting the budgets of federal land managers — allowing them to hire more staff, collect more baseline data on archaeological sites and do more outreach and education.

Archaeologists studying totoaba bones from Rancho Punta Estrella — a site in Baja California occupied by humans 10,000 years ago and then again 5000 years ago — used a special bone from the fish's inner ear, called an otolith, to help them reconstruct the totoaba's early environment.

This lesson helps students understand what archaeologists find, why they search for artifacts, and how they reconstruct them.

In the same way that archaeologists might sift through a digging site to discover evidence that will help them piece together knowledge of a place or a people, educators are always seeking artifacts that might paint a more detailed picture of their students» learning.

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.

We already saw in UC4 that Cassondra was a big archaeologist herself, I'd see the story playing out where she's going on a hunt for some artifact & she hires a crew to help out w / the heavy lifting, and Drake's dad would be one of those crew members.

It doesn't help that a talking boat known as the Archaeologist only gives vague instructions on what to do.

The archaeologists acknowledged it is a «bit of a leap» to say that what occurred thousands of years ago may help predict how modern - day humans will cope with climate change but lessons from the past offer hint at how people today can survive these changes.The researchers cited the importance of cooperation amid challenges humans face today.

Archaeopteryx is fittingly similar to the monster as it is a bird - like dinosaur with feathers whose discovery by archaeologists in 1861 helped provide a link between reptiles and modern birds.