Sentences with phrase «new archaeological»

Housing may be part of the American dream, but a new archaeological site shows that the need for a home is an especially deeply rooted urge.

«Here, we present results for sea - level change in the central Mediterranean basin for the Roman Period using new archaeological evidence.

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents City and Cosmos: The Arts of Teotihuacan, a groundbreaking exhibition featuring new archaeological discoveries from the ancient city's three main pyramids and major residential compounds.

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents City and Cosmos: The Arts of Teotihuacan, a groundbreaking exhibition featuring new archaeological discoveries from the ancient city's three... Read more...

A lot has changed over the centuries due to fires and earthquakes, exposing many new archaeological sites.

Further north, new archaeological discoveries from the preclassic, Classic and modern Maya periods are even now being uncovered.

These new archaeological findings show that around 8,000 years ago women were not only spending time with dogs, but they were also eating the same food as them and suffered from some of the same illnesses as their canine companions.

In turning to a methodological issue, the new archaeological horizons in the Monte Verde area are difficult to trace laterally over areas larger than ~ 8 — 10 m2 and probably represent only fragments of a broader landscape utilized by people adapting to changing climates and environments in the area.

DNA analysis and new archaeological finds are allowing scientists to more accurately recreate what our early ancestors looked like.

A new archaeological research found that dogs were a fundamental part of the Mayan civilization, a symbol of power, and an instrument during tribal ceremonies.

However, new archaeological research has revealed that — for all their apparently hygienic innovations — intestinal parasites such as whipworm, roundworm and Entamoeba histolytica dysentery did not decrease as expected in Roman times compared with the preceding Iron Age, they gradually increased.

In addition to CT scanning of bones and teeth and radiocarbon dating of previously excavated materials, researchers hope to launch new archaeological digs, possibly in Europe or the Near East.

This led to the suggestion that ARCUS (the University of Sheffield's new archaeological consultancy) should submit a research proposal for an archaeological evaluation of an area of the moors.

«New archaeological find could shed light on late - Roman Britain.»

Chimpanzees have been using hammer stones and anvils for at least 4,300 years, according to new archaeological evidence from Africa

Now, new archaeological clues are painting a fresh picture of the Norse.

But new archaeological evidence hidden in a lofty tomb reveals that it also ventured into the high altitudes of Tibet — a previously unknown arm of the trade route.

@Chad «A. New archaeological finds occur every day, no one would even attempt to advance the argument that we have a complete history of ancient egypt B.

Not exact matches

The problem with that argument is that with this new evidence they are not making a claim based on «silence» they are basing it on actual archaeological data.

Mastodons and mammoths lived long ago in the New World, however, as with the prehistoric horse, the archaeological record indicates that they became extinct along with most of the megafauna in the New World around 10,000 BC.

Beginning with The Landmark Thucydides (1996), Strassler has produced authoritative new editions of the major Greek historians that include copious maps for easy reference, a continuous chronology on every page, marginal chapter summaries, photographs of relevant archaeological materials, abundant footnotes (always illuminating, never bloated), and a comprehensive appendix featuring learned but accessible articles by prominent scholars.

Call it what you want, it is just more media hype to promote a new, imminently forthcoming book with shoddy Biblical and archaeological scholarship or historical accuracy.

The numerous archaeological finds made there since 1948 have given us renewed contact with the deep past of Judaism and a new appreciation of the Bible's overall accuracy in depicting it.

But where things said or done in the past have been disproved, or where they are not useful in new circumstances (save as a matter of historical awareness or of what might be styled archaeological interest), this fact will be acknowledged.

The New Mexico State Legislature and Governor King quickly passed Senate Joint Memorial 5, which stated, in part and with considerable exaggeration: «Whereas, despite New Mexico's long and rich chile history and prehistory, with solid archaeological evidence indicating the continuous use of both red and green chile since the time of Folsom Man some twelve thousand years ago [this is not true], we now find «Texas Man» claiming the noble chile as his; and whereas despite the facts, we hear boasting from east of the Pecos that «The Lone Star State» is the chili capital of the Southwest... and Texas chefs malign the noble «red and green» by blending it into a slurry of kidney beans and onions called chili; now, therefore, be it resolved by the Legislature of the State of New Mexico that the Land of Enchantment bets the «whole enchilada» and its reputation as the Chile Capital of the World against the Lone Star State in the Mother of All Chile Wars Festival to be held May 29 - 31, 1993 at the Doña Ana County Fairgrounds.»

The exhibition, titled «a small fort, which our people call Fort Orange,» examines the momentous archaeological discovery of the fort in 1970, as well as the lasting impact of Dutch settlement of New York 400 years ago.

Terrell has been doing archaeological and anthropological research in this coastal region of New Guinea, the second largest island in the world, since 1990.

The archaeological evidence suggests these early humans were developing significant new behaviours.

In a new study published in The Quarterly Review of Biology, Dr. Karen Hardy and her team bring together archaeological, anthropological, genetic, physiological and anatomical data to argue that carbohydrate consumption, particularly in the form of starch, was critical for the accelerated expansion of the human brain over the last million years, and coevolved both with copy number variation of the salivary amylase genes and controlled fire use for cooking.

Precise new dates of settlement, established from large surveys of archaeological sites, show more centrally planned movement, bolstering the case for a communal hunting effort versus a loose federation of farm stands.

«Tell Brak is not just another archaeological site but a place where new aspects of humanity emerged, and our work has the potential to explain them,» Ur says.

The international research team, including researchers from the University of Exeter, created a new database of historical and archaeological information using data on 414 societies spanning the last 10,000 years.

David Anthony, an archaeologist at Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York, says this type of model doesn't match the complex linguistic and archaeological evidence.

But after analyzing archaeological and ethnographic data, social scientist Samuel Bowles of the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico has reported even worse fatalities in hunter - gatherer societies stretching back at least 10,000 years and continuing to the present.

«The Viking's grave and the sunken ship: New photogrammetry method transforms archaeological sites.»

The chronology was pieced together during a six - year research project by building mathematical models that combine the new radiocarbon dates with established archaeological stratigraphic evidence.

A team, led by Professor Thomas Higham of the University of Oxford, obtained new radiocarbon dates for around 200 samples of bone, charcoal and shell from 40 key European archaeological sites.

«The new regulation will provide us with the tools in order to prevent the importation into the country of antiquities that were stolen or plundered in other countries, thus enabling us to thwart the international cycle of robbery and trade in stolen archaeological artifacts,» Shai Bar - Tura, inspector in charge of overseeing the antiquities trade on behalf of the IAA Unit for the Prevention of Antiquities Robbery, said in a statement.

Paul Bahn is an archaeological writer; his latest book, Mammoths (written with Adrian Lister), will be published this autumn, by Macmillan (New York).

Their work, which links ancient climate and archaeological data, could help modern communities identify new crops and other adaptive strategies when threatened by drought, extreme weather and other environmental challenges.

We sought to bring new tools for chemical analysis with us into the field, so we can do obsidian sourcing as we excavate or survey an archaeological site, not wait until months or years later to learn the results.

Dr Edgeworth said: «It may seem odd to think of plastics as archaeological and geological materials because they are so new, but we increasingly find them as inclusions in recent strata.

Together with new radiometric dates and the existing archaeological evidence, the results, presented here on 6 August at the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America, suggest the following timeline: A moist climate from 9000 to 6000 years ago supported early farmers.

Scientists have found a new organic molecule that may be the mysterious culprit that is turning some ancient stone tools blue and casting a blue sheen over other irreplaceable archaeological artifacts in an old armory in Verona, Italy.

An archaeological site in California may have opened up a whole new chapter in the history of humans in the Americas.

Meanwhile, 42 eminent archaeologists and paleoanthropologists from the United States and Europe signed a letter demanding that Italy's minister of the cultural heritage move the archaeological collection to a new location and create an international scientific panel to assess the effects of the contamination.

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.

The research therefore offers the opportunity for new insights into the archaeological and ethnographic context of the engravings.

A recent study led by Joseph Ferraro, Ph.D., assistant professor of anthropology at Baylor, offers new insight in this debate with a wealth of archaeological evidence from the two million - year - old site of Kanjera South (KJS), Kenya.

«With our new method we see that the time of selection coincides with an increase in the amount of chicken bones in the archaeological records across Northern Europe.