Sentences with phrase «known by archaeologists»

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.

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Commanding an army of workers bearing chisels and brushes, the iconoclastic Israel Finkelstein, a Tel Aviv University archaeologist and director of the Megiddo Expedition, orchestrates an upheaval of his own: By opening the belly of Megiddo, he is challenging the narrative of the Bible, upending ancient Israeli history and derailing what we thought we knew about the Iron Age in this region called the Levant.

The site dates back to around 2,000 BC and was discovered by chance when ANU Archaeologist Dr Catherine Frieman, who was conducting geophysical surveys of a known site outside the village of Looe in Cornwall, was approached by a farmer about a possible site in a neighbouring field.

Archaeologists who have uncovered two massive carved stucco panels in the Mirador Basin of Guatemala's northern rain forest say they are the earliest known representation of the Mayan creation myth, predating other such artifacts by a millennium.

Archaeologists have known of Bosnia's so - called Butmir culture for more than a century, but the extent of this earliest flourishing of settlement and agriculture was discovered only in 2002 by a joint German - Bosnian team.

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.

Yet archaeologists know that nomadic hunter - gatherers likely lived there seasonally and possibly year - round by at least 10,000 years ago.

Yet a group of researchers led by archaeologists and calling themselves historical ecologists have recently come together to determine what we need to know about past human - environmental relationships to build a more sustainable future.

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

Chacchoben was known only by the locals before 1972 when an American archaeologist reported the discovery of the ruins to the Mexican authorities, after excavations the site was opened to the public in 2002.

The collective mind of Art F City critics suggest that you will quite enjoy yourself visiting and chatting with artists Carla Gannis (digital and fan of emojis and Wonder Woman), Nicholas Cueva (who probably knows more about spiritual archaeologist Klaus Dona than any other artist), and Liliya Lifanova (who's had one of her performances presented by the World Chess Hall of Fame).

Less is known of Palmyra in the later Roman period, but recent excavation by Polish archaeologists has revealed several large churches, probably of the sixth century.