Sentences with phrase «led by archaeologists»

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.

Locals then developed their own variations on Middle Paleolithic tools, says a team led by archaeologists Kumar Akhilesh and Shanti Pappu, both of the Sharma Centre for Heritage Education, India, in the city of Chennai.

The new finds reveal a vast range of body sizes for ancient members of the human evolutionary family, reports an international team led by archaeologists Fidelis Masao and Elgidius Ichumbaki, both of the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania.

Excavations led by archaeologists Martin Biddle and Birthe Kjølbye - Biddle at St Wystan's Church in Repton in the 1970s and 1980s discovered several Viking graves and a charnel deposit of nearly 300 people underneath a shallow mound in the vicarage garden.

A team led by archaeologist Damian Evans beamed a laser pulse 200,000 times per second from the helicopter toward the dense forest below.

Led by archaeologist Alessandro Vanzetti of the University of Rome, La Sapienza, the researchers say that Ötzi's body and artifacts were in fact carefully placed on a stone platform 5 meters away from where the body was later found.

To find out whether the bodies themselves could shed some light on the debate, a team led by archaeologist Douglas Kennett of Pennsylvania State University in State College analyzed their remains, found in room 33 of the Pueblo Bonito complex and now stored at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, using DNA sequencing.

An international team led by archaeologist João Zilhão of the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom examined three cockleshells from Aviones that were perforated near their hinges and found lying alongside lumps of yellow and red pigments.

This study was led by archaeologist Ileana Micarelli of Sapienza University in Rome.

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Wirlu - murra elders have led a team of anthropologists and archaeologists on an expedition into the outback as part of a three - year cultural mapping initiative sponsored by Fortescue Metals Group.

However, the Coyolxauhqui relief sparked such national excitement that archaeologists were permitted to embark on long - term excavations, first led by Eduardo Matos Moctezuma of Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History.

The latest work, led by geneticists Iñigo Olalde and David Reich at Harvard Medical School, involved 103 researchers at dozens of institutions, including Bronze Age archaeologists.

There, the team of archaeologists from Tübingen led by Pfälzner, discovered a pristine king's grave in 2002.

Recent excavations led by University of Sheffield archaeologist Mike Parker Pearson have led him to suggest the two sites were built as a single complex of complementary stone and wood circles linked by a river route.

One group of archaeologists, led by Anthony Harding, president of the European Association of Archaeologists and a professor at the University of Exeter, wrote an open letter to the Bosnian government denouncing the pyramids as a «cruel hoax on an unsuspecting archaeologists, led by Anthony Harding, president of the European Association of Archaeologists and a professor at the University of Exeter, wrote an open letter to the Bosnian government denouncing the pyramids as a «cruel hoax on an unsuspecting Archaeologists and a professor at the University of Exeter, wrote an open letter to the Bosnian government denouncing the pyramids as a «cruel hoax on an unsuspecting public.»

A team of archaeologists, led by Cat Jarman from the University of Bristol's Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, has discovered that a mass grave uncovered in the 1980s dates to the Viking Age and may have been a burial site of the Viking Great Army war dead.

These relics of ancient South Americans add to evidence from nearby sites challenging the longstanding view of Clovis people as the first Americans (SN: 8/11/12, p. 15), a team led by geochronologist Christelle Lahaye of the University of Bordeaux 3 and archaeologist Eric Boëda of the University of Paris X reports March 4 in the

The Woods Hole researchers worked on the project with Greek archaeologists led by Theotokis Theodoulou of the Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities.

During a four - year excavation of an Etruscan well at the ancient Italian settlement of Cetamura del Chianti, a team led by a Florida State University archaeologist and art historian unearthed artifacts spanning more than 15 centuries of Etruscan, Roman and medieval civilization in Tuscany.

In 2016, a team led by University of Victoria archaeologist April Nowell and her colleague Cam Walker, a biological anthropologist with Archaeological Investigations Northwest Inc. in Portland, Ore., used CIEP to analyze tools found at a 250,000 - year - old animal processing site in Jordan's Shishan Marsh.

Chinese archaeologists led by Qiang Ji of Nanjing University found the well - preserved fossil, including impressions of soft tissue and fur, in the Jiulongshan Formation in Inner Mongolia.

In a paper published online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team led by David Meltzer, an archaeologist at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, in Texas, looks at the dating of 29 different sites in the Americas, Europe, and the Middle East in which impact advocates have reported evidence for a cosmic collision.

A team of archaeologists led by John Woods of the University of Chicago has spent several summers searching for it.

In April Oxford archaeologist Paul Pettitt and two colleagues — Paul Bahn, one of Britain's leading Ice Age art specialists, and Sergio Ripoll, an archaeologist at the National University of Distance Learning in Madrid — descended into a cave at Nottinghamshire's Creswell Crags, a limestone gorge frequented by Ice Age hunters.

A team led by Julie Schablitsky, an archaeologist with the University of Oregon, searched the Alder Creek area 30 miles west of Reno, Nevada, and located a site where they suspect the Donner family had camped out for five months.

A study led by physical geographer at Southampton Professor Tony Brown, in collaboration with archaeologist Dr Laura Basell at Queen's University Belfast, has found that sites popular with our early human ancestors, were abundant in foods containing nutrients vital for a balanced diet.

An international team of researchers, led by Leiden archaeologist José Joordens, published this discovery on 3 December in Nature.

A Chinese - American team led by Loukas Barton, an archaeologist at the University of California, Davis, and Seth Newsome, an ecologist at the Carnegie Institution of Washington in Washington, D.C., tackled the debate at the early farming village of Dadiwan in northwest China.

The archaeologists analysed 16 samples of microscopic plant remains from ten different time periods found during excavations during 2014 led by the University of São Paulo in South West Amazonia.

The team of archaeologists, led by Joan Oates of Cambridge, will return to Brak in the spring to continue their work.

A team led by maritime archaeologist Brendan Foley of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution tested the new protocol on nine 5th to 3rd century B.C.E. amphorae that had been languishing in a government storage room in Athens for more than a decade.

A 2,700 - year - old portico was discovered this summer on the site of the ancient city of Argilos in northern Greece, following an archaeological excavation led by Jacques Perreault, Professor at the University of Montreal's Centre of Classical Studies and Zisis Bonias, an archaeologist with the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports.

Her skeleton was surrounded by animal remains, leading the researchers to conclude that she was a shaman — an interpretation that received a mixed reaction from archaeologists.

A team led by Higham and Ron Pinhasi, an archaeologist at University College Cork in Ireland, used the latest techniques to radiocarbon date the skull bones of a 1 - or 2 - year - old Neandertal infant found at the site, which has been under excavation by a Russian team since 1987.

But the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) is now allowing a team led by Boston University archaeologist Michael Danti to search the mountainous area for artifacts.

In 1997, a team of Australian archaeologists, led by the late Mike Morwood, was on the prowl for evidence of the first modern humans to arrive on the continent.

In 2010, a team of archaeologists led by University of Alaska Fairbanks» Ben Potter discovered the ancient cremated remains of a three - year - old child at the Upward Sun River site in the Tanana River Valley of central Alaska.

Interestingly, the study, led by Ashley Sharpe, an archaeologist from Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, revealed that the remains of the two dogs excavated in Ceibal in Guatemala indicated isotopes that the animals likely adapted a drier and mountainous environment.

The heterogeneity of the pictorial motifs (brigand / warrior, ship, bull, church) have lead to misunderstandings and a more than disparate dating by archaeologists... surrounded by deer figures.

• Amazon cruise: Take an intimate river cruise • Atacama Desert, Chile: Hike the salt flats and volcanoes • Buenos Aires: Try a tango class • Easter Island: See the mysterious statues • Galápagos Islands: Spot Darwin's finches and other wildlife • Iguazú Falls, Brazil: Stay at Hotel das Cataratas by the thundering falls • Machu Picchu: Enter the citadel as the Incas did through Sun Gate • Mayan sites: Take an archaeologist - led tour • Mexico City: See Diego Rivera's murals at the Palacio Nacional • Oaxaca, Mexico: Enjoy Slow Food dishes at La Biznaga • Patagonia, Argentina: Admire the Perito Moreno Glacier • Rio de Janeiro: Go on a helicopter ride over the city • Salvador de Bahia, Brazil: Take in the festival atmosphere of Old Town

A team of archeologists led by UC San Diego archaeologist Geoffrey Braswell has discovered a carved jade megajewel in the Maya ruins of Nim Li Punit in Belize.

Iraqi archaeologist appointed to lead rescue operation in Nimrud Iraq's State Board of Antiquities and Heritage has today appointed an Iraqi archaeologist to assess the destruction caused by ISIS in the ancient city of Nimrud, and lead an operation to secure whatever can be saved, following the city's recapture by government forces in November 2016.