Sentences with phrase «known as archaeologists»

People who work in this field are known as archaeologists.

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

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I've always imagined that Browning was talking about the ruins of the Roman Forum, which for centuries, before the archaeologists started to dig, were known as the Campo Vaccino, or cow pasture.

(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.

THE ROOTS are not Abrahamic, as they claim, as ANY archaeologist knows.

We, of course, did not find any artifacts that said «King David» or King Solomon» but we discovered at the site signs of a social transformation the region underwent, including the construction of a large edifice in a plan known to archaeologists as «the four - room house» which is common in Israel but is rare to non-existent elsewhere.

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Khipus are mostly known by archaeologists as the records of the Inka civilization, the vast multiethnic empire that encompassed as many as 18 million people and nearly 3,000 miles along the Andes and the Pacific coast of South America.

The most eloquent messenger was Hebrew University archaeologist Yigael Yadin, known for his excavation of Masada, the desert fortress described as a scene of a shameful mass murder - suicide after a failed revolt.

For archaeologists at a dig, the painstaking work known as picking is an everyday routine.

An ancient Egyptian scroll known as the Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, named after the archaeologist who purchased it in 1862, explains how to diagnose a «pulled vertebra.»

Archaeologist Marija Gimbutas first proposed the Ukrainian origin, known as the kurgan hypothesis, in the 1950s.

A study by a team of archaeologists based at the University of Copenhagen published today in the Royal Society journal Open Science documents that the region now known as the Black Desert in eastern Jordan could sustain a population of wild sheep.

Archaeologists are getting their first look at how a nearly year - long occupation by the group known as the Islamic State (IS) has affected the World Heritage Site of Palmyra in Syria.

Then one day in 2011, a Griffith University archaeologist named Adam Brumm noticed that some of the artwork was covered with calcite growths colloquially known as cave popcorn.

Using genetic and paleoecological evidence, University of Utah anthropological geneticist Dennis O'Rourke, University of Colorado archaeologist John Hoffecker and University of London paleoecologist Scott Elias were able to bolster a long - standing theory known as the «Beringian Standstill.»

Archaeologists believe the fires may have been lit as some sort of funeral ritual around where the toddler, known as the Lozoya Child, was placed around 38,000 to 42,000 years ago.

But until archaeologists have excavated domestic sites on the Maltese islands, we will not know the relative importance of other imported materials, such as flint and obsidian, for a domestic economy that was essentially based on local agriculture.

NPCA's grim assessment comes as no surprise to archaeologists who are working in parks known for their cultural resources.

Archaeologists know that the Polynesians who first settled New Zealand ate moas of all ages, as well as the birds» eggs.

On the other hand, Ann Olga Koloski - Ostrow, the self - professed «Queen of Latrines» and a classical archaeologist at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, who was not involved in the study, points out that it's difficult to know exactly how prevalent the use of human feces as fertilizer actually was during the Roman Empire: «We can just say that in some early farming texts, we know that they'd build the slave toilets over an area where the excrement could be collected and then spread over the crops, but that was just on isolated farms here and there.»

Like most Iraqis, I thought the arrival of the Americans was very welcome, but when you work as an archaeologist for 30 years, love the field, and know each piece, and then you see all the destruction and looting — this was very hard.

The site, known as Tabun Cave, «is unique in that it's a site with a very long sequence» of early human occupancy, Ron Shimelmitz, an archaeologist at the University of Haifa and a co-author of the new study, told Science magazine.

A tintype, also known as a melainotype or ferrotype, is a photograph made by creating a direct positive on a thin sheet of metal coated with a dark lacquer Photographs of UK mines and quarries for explorers, historians and industrial archaeologists

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider: Lara Croft as we all know is a British archaeologist and adventurer in search of antiques.

Most people know Tomb Raider as a series of video games about Lara Croft, a badass, gun - toting archaeologist / adventurer who gets into amazing action sequences, discovers a lot of lost cities that contain evil spirits, and often saves the world.

As a historical archaeologist, Sarah Dunnemore should know that.

We all know Lara Croft as the athletic archaeologist and thrill seeker who is always ready to overcome any obstacle that comes in her way.

You may not know it, but Alex Nyerges, executive director of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, began his career as an archaeologist.