Sentences with phrase «like archaeologists»

«Comet scientists are like archaeologists, studying old samples to understand the past,» said Boncho Bonev, an astronomer at American University and the second author on the paper.

The plan is to treat the space lab like archaeologists would treat an ancient site.

The technology is invaluable for researchers who require mainly a record of static position, like archaeologists platting a dig or botanists recording the location of endangered plants.

As she put it: «Morality is something we discover like archaeologists, not something we build like architects.

When therefore we set out to study the events out of which it arose, and the part that its Founder played in them, we are not like archaeologists digging up the remains of a forgotten civilization, or palaeontologists reconstructing an extinct organism.

Was it like an archaeologist discovering a new world?

Many historical societies have kids - only spinoffs, such as Ohio Kids, that feature educational cartoon characters, like archaeologist Ohio Jones or history wizard TellZall.

July 14th The Pit and the Page Thinking Like an Archaeologist to Reveal New Literary Material A daylong workshop with Elizabeth Mosier

He's going to make Indiana Jones look like the archaeologist of the year.

As such, you had to unpick the story of the place like an archaeologist digging at ruins, or by reading the abstruse descriptions on items plundered from crisp - dry corpses, or rust - stuck chests.

The curator, Lisa Phillips, has taken over the entire museum like an archaeologist for a dead religion.

Like an archaeologist of everyday life, Calame excavates the shards of life's journeys, investigating issues of truth and translation.

Not exact matches

Other South American civilizations, like the Incas and the Aztec, practiced ritual human sacrifice, but archaeologists have never found children's bodies in such a high concentration before.

Archaeologists have collaborated with Liverpool John Moores University's Face Lab specialists - who used sophisticated software to create an digital image of what one of the soldiers looked like.

Seems like I feel the same way about you — there is so much that has been dug up by biblical archaeologist and ignored by your type — every time someone like you opens their mouth a biblical archaeologist shoves another spade in it.

It kills me when they say things like «many scientists doubt evolution» or «archaeologists have proved the bible.»

found nothing but a rusty nail and what looked like very rusted bottlecap... perhaps these credible «modern» archaeologist types and I are both digging in the wrong spot...

It is like a set of die, and archaeologist have discovered sets of these in their digs around the ruins of Susa.

Scavenging K would be «like coming to someone's house and finding Coke cans on the floor,» says Mario Martin, an archaeologist and expedition researcher directing this part of the dig.

As Egypt struggles to determine its future without Mubarak, archaeologists are wondering what their field might look like without Hawass.

For now, budding archaeologists like Nielsen face challenges.

A: If you talked to other archaeologists, they would think that a lot of [underwater archaeologists] do this because we like to scuba dive and that we aren't trying to answer research questions.

Loren Davis, an archaeologist at Oregon State University in Corvallis, agrees: «Now that the ice - free corridor has been shown to be dead in the water — no pun intended — we can start to look at something like a coastal migration route.»

Morgan and University of Liverpool archaeologist Natalie Uomini arrived at their conclusions by conducting a series of experiments in teaching contemporary humans the art of «Oldowan stone - knapping,» in which butchering «flakes» are created by hammering a hard rock against certain volcanic or glassy rocks, like basalt or flint.

Archaeologists are a little like forensic investigators: They scour the remains of past societies, looking for clues in pottery, tools and bones about how people lived, and how they died.

Sarabia says archaeologists are now replacing the cement with more suitable materials like river sand.

Archaeologists today regularly recover small items like glass beads, spindle whorls or Chinese porcelain at sites across Africa and the Mediterranean.

Like Wrangham, the archaeologist Steven LeBlanc is critical of scientists who emphasize the peaceful aspects of human nature.

In excavating sites in a long - inhabited urban area like Jerusalem, archaeologists are accustomed to noting complexity in their finds — how various occupying civilizations layer over one another during the site's continuous use over millennia.

Like an Iron Age CSI detective, archaeologist Aldhouse - Green investigates the grisly deaths of men, women and children discovered millennia later in the peat bogs of Northern Europe.

«They're like disposable razors,» says Matthew Des Lauriers, an archaeologist at California State University in Northridge, who has found the same kind of tools on Cedros Island off Baja California, where people lived more than 12,000 years ago.

In recent years, however, well documented earlier sites like Chile's Monte Verde have convinced most archaeologists that humans made it deep into the Americas by 14,500 years ago, meaning that they would have had to cross Canada long before an ice - free corridor existed.

These new findings, published this week online by the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science, are an important key to the puzzle of how technology emerged as humans dispersed across the globe, says archaeologist Ofer Bar - Yosef at Harvard University, who, like Straus, did not participate in this study.

The strangest and most significant find, however, was a soil layer down by the beach that looked like nothing MacGillivray had ever seen in four decades as a field archaeologist.

«It looks like seafaring capabilities and seafaring technology have a much greater antiquity than conventional wisdom among archaeologists would lead one to expect,» says James O'Connell, an archaeologist at the University of Utah.

«There's no other place like it,» says archaeologist Nick Toth of Indiana University in Bloomington.

«Finding a battle is not like finding an object,» says Clemens Reichel, the University of Chicago archaeologist leading the U.S. team.

But this year archaeologists used an innovative technology called multispectral imaging to reveal a treasure trove of writing by the likes of Sophocles, Euripides, and Hesiod.

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.

«Like public toilets today, they are convenient if you need them, but mostly they are not pleasant nor desirable places,» says Ann Koloski - Ostrow, an archaeologist at Brandeis University who collaborates with Jansen.

The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990, and legislation like it in other countries with large indigenous populations, is changing the relationship between archaeologists and the people whose ancestors we study.

Archaeologist John Shea of Stony Brook University, who was not involved in the new work, notes Levallois - like stone tools have been found at sites in Africa dating to 500,000 years ago, and sites in Armenia dating to more than 300,000 years ago — long before H. sapiens is known to have appeared on the scene.

But do mass extinctions work like clockwork?In Turkey, archaeologists are uncovering evidence a Neolithic, egalitarian utopia.

Archaeologist Sandra Olsen doesn't care much for living horses — it's their bones she likes.

In the most traditional sense, archaeologists» work might go like this: They'll go to an ancient site, dig a few trenches and systematically record all the artifacts and architectural features they found buried underground.

Before the Spaniards arrived, inhabitants of the arid northern Peruvian coast clad massive sand dune — like ridges with an accidental form of «armor»: millions of discarded mollusk shells, which protected the ridges from erosion for nearly 4700 years and produced a vast corrugated landscape that «is visible from space,» says archaeologist Dan Sandweiss of the University of Maine, Orono, one of the paper's authors.

«For a long time, it looks like people really don't want to eat these birds... they are too important for other purposes,» says archaeologist R. Kyle Bocinsky of WSU.

Intricate clay figurines like the one pictured above are the only clue archaeologists have to the mysterious Koma Land culture, which occupied part of northern Ghana between 600 and 1300 C.E..

Archaeologists have long known that Neandertals, like the family pictured in this artist's representation, used fire, but they could have merely taken advantage of naturally occurring lightning strikes and forest fires to supply the flames.

Like Aspero, Caral had been on archaeologists» radar for decades, yet no one had known what to make of it.