Sentences with phrase «known archaeological»

She is not ready to divulge the results of her analysis, but based on her published evidence, she describes Bluefish Caves as «the oldest - known archaeological site in North America.»

«Enkapune Ya Muto rockshelter... contains the oldest known archaeological horizons spanning this transition [to the Later Stone Age].

BOEM is seeking public input on identifying the environmental issues and alternatives to be considered in the EA, including geological, geophysical, and biological conditions in the call areas; known archaeological and / or cultural resource sites on the seabed within the call areas; historic properties potentially affected; other uses of the call areas; and other relevant socioeconomic, biological, and environmental information.

Machu Picchu, a 15th - century incancitadel, is the best - known archaeological site in South America.

As one of the best - known archaeological sites South America, Machu Picchu is a must for all visitors to Peru....

«There isn't anywhere in the world with more to look at in a smaller space,» Bryson asserts, noting that Britain has 26 World Heritage Sites and 600,000 known archaeological sites.

In the UK, the conservation agency English Heritage was protesting against motorway building, pointing out that the government's plans would «destroy or disturb more than 800 known archaeological sites» (25 October 1990).

The survey's aim is to catalog every known archaeological site in the area and to discover new ones in the process.

The stone tools mark «a new beginning to the known archaeological record,» say the authors of a new paper about the discovery, published today in the leading scientific journal Nature.

Green indicates previously known archaeological sites; red indicates new features.

Forthcoming in the Journal of Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, the study offers the earliest known archaeological evidence for human construction of large - scale levees and other flood - control systems in China.

Efforts to map ancient sites from satellite imagery are revealing never - before known archaeological sites, which may lead to a «no - strike list» for combatants

Know the archaeological complexes of Huaca Rajada, the Lord of Sipán's Royal Tombs, Túcume's Pyramids Valley

Know the archaeological complex of Chavín de Huántar, Queroqocha Lagoon, and the White Cordillera.

We emphasize stunning scenery, small traditional communities, little know archaeological sites and tend to stay away from more popular and overcrowded routes This is exploration of Inca trails on Horseback and educational journey's through Inca ruins on ancient trails on quality horses.

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Just as there were letters and sermons that were not known until a few years ago, archaeological excavations have uncovered towns and churches that were wholly unknown to us until recently.

(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.

We know from archaeological evidence that Cyrus allowed a number of conquered peoples to rebuild their homelands and local temples.

I'll be gathering unbiased archaeological and historical data mainly from universities and well - known books.

The true minimalist would disregard the Genesis — 2 Kings narrative altogether and attempt to determine what can be known from the meager epigraphical references and archaeological remains alone, interpreted without any prompting from the Bible.

Both volumes were cautious in their use of archaeological evidence, and both were less confident than either Noth or Bright as to what could be known about early Israelite history.

Ignoring your error in trying to insult me (you know that fallacy I bet), you do not consider historical docu ments about Jesus that coincide with archaeological evidence as evidence?

Um... you do know that there are historical and archaeological data to actually support a man named Jesus right?

zoro dates to (at the very earliest — 1200 b.c. even thou i know its from 500 b.c.) 500-1200 b.c. while the main gods in the hindu myths are from 1500 — 5000 b.c. and those dates are supported by archaeological evidence.

Early Christians in their baptism would descend by steps [20] into the baptistry (as we know from the archaeological remains of Dura Europos) to bring home to them that they were «buried with Christ by baptism into death» (Rom 6:4).

Or, if we knew that the description in Exodus 19 has no external (archaeological) relationship to place, time, and event and that it is simply and intentionally metaphorical, we would be afforded the luxury of shedding at least for the moment the responsibilities of geographer - topographer - historian; we could then read the passage in the knowledge that here at least no clues exist to aid in the possible reconstruction of an actual event.

The vast majority of ochre used is no longer part of the archaeological record.»

While Down's syndrome is a well - known cause of intellectual disability, there are few cases in the archaeological record.

Bone tumors are exceptionally rare finds in the evolutionary fossil and archaeological records of human prehistory, with the earliest known instances, before now, dating to 1,000 to 4,000 years ago.

They discovered at an archaeological site in Armenia that these types of tools already existed there between 325,000 and 335,000 years ago, suggesting that local populations developed them out of a more basic type of technology, known as biface, which was also found at the site.

In addition, because dental calculus is the richest known source of DNA in the archaeological record, it presents unique opportunities for investigating archaeological sites with preservation challenges.

Bosnia is also home to one of the most exciting archaeological finds of the Neolithic, a 7,000 - year - old settlement of 3,000 people living in a village surrounded by battlements and trenches, perhaps larger than any other known settlement of that age.

«This was a big surprise,» said co-author Sandra Olsen, curator - in - charge of the archaeology division of the Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum at the University of Kansas, who led archaeological work at known Botai villages.

With each looted archaeological site, robbed museum, exploded monument or burned archive, we lose data on the world's earliest - known agriculture, settled communities, organized religions, state - level polities, writing systems and great empires.

Hlubik was inspired to investigate her site, part of a larger archaeological area known as Koobi Fora, because of reddened, bowl - shaped patches, about a meter below the surface, that were first identified in the 1970s and 1980s in a nearby part of Koobi Fora.

By joining the old and new evidence together, researchers said the untapped archaeological proof may no longer present an obstacle for the «Beringian Standstill» theory.

By using a statistical technique known as Bayesian analysis — which combines probability with archaeological information to improve precision for groups of radiocarbon dates — the study authors were able to produce a high - precision chronology model for early domestic horse use in Mongolia.

The study, published online March 31 in Journal of Archaeological Science, produces scientific estimates of the age of horse bones found from archaeological sites belonging to a culture known as the Deer Stone - Khirigsuur Complex.

«Because Europe has such a long history of large scale archaeological excavation of ice age sites, they have found the bulk of the world's known ice age jewellery.»

The archaeological community is trying to make its views known.

There have been very few archaeological searches of Borneo, so at the moment we know practically nothing about its fossil record.

The cob, known as Tehuacan162, was excavated from a cave in the Tehuacan Valley in the 1960s, during a major archaeological expedition lead by Richard MacNeish.

So they compared the distribution of domesticated species to more than 3,000 known pre-Columbian archaeological sites and likely settlement areas, including near the banks of rivers.

That's about 2000 years earlier than suggested by previous studies focusing on a different, more selective set of genes known as the exome, but it's in line with recent archaeological findings that point to distinctly Tibetan permanent settlements appearing between 3600 and 5200 years ago, Yang says.

In any case this could be the least - known period from the archaeological point of view, as hardly any analysis has been conducted on groups of fauna remains dated after the 16th century.

Sacks's survey includes forays into topics ranging from the history of typesetting to the twisty tale of c, k, and q. (The Phoenicians pronounced the precursors of k and q in slightly different ways, while the Etruscans replaced the Greek gamma - which stood for a sound they did not use - with the crescent - shaped c.) He carefully delves into the archaeological evidence for the alphabet's origins, describing the oldest known alphabetic inscriptions, dating to about 1800 B.C., which were recently identified among rock carvings at Wadi el - Hol in central Egypt.

In June archaeologist Ian Kuijt at the University of Notre Dame and colleagues reported that they had uncovered the world's earliest known granaries, located at the Dhra archaeological site on the shore of the Dead Sea in Jordan.

However, until very recently, little information has been forthcoming about the age of the archaeological sites in arid zones, and hardly anything is known about the specific ecological settings that hominins occupied.

The researchers note that some refinement in archaeological dating in some areas is still needed, but that the rise and fall of major polities is reasonably well known.

I do not know how to assess the geological or palaeontological or archaeological evidence that has been presented.