Sentences with phrase «new archaeological sites»

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

The fossilized remains, which belong to the cimicid family (a group that includes today's common bedbugs), were found during archaeological investigations of the Paisley Five Mile Point Cave site, researchers said in a new study detailing the findings.

Remote - sensing devices that are sensitive to minute variations in the water content of soil revealed the footprints of vanished houses, water tanks, canals, and even historic rice fields, leading researchers to conclude that Angkor is most likely the world's largest archaeological site, a sprawling low - density metropolis covering an area larger than New York City.

For instance, at Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico, which is a park solely because of its remarkable Native American architecture, the «existing staff numbers are far too small to adequately document and preserve the archaeological sites, and to fully educate the public,» says Stephen Plog, an archaeologist at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, who has studied the Chaco Culture.

Green indicates previously known archaeological sites; red indicates new features.

WRITTEN IN BONE DNA from a 37,000 - year - old skeleton found at the Kostenki archaeological site in Russia supports recent findings and offers new ones about the history of human evolution.

To do so, they used new techniques to carefully cull chloroplast DNA from ancient rice 900 -2,800-years-old, which had been excavated from seven archaeological sites in Japan and Korea.

New fossil finds from the Jebel Irhoud archaeological site in Morocco do more than push back the origins of our species by 100,000 years.

A new study of archaeological sites across Western Europe highlights a strikingly consistent pattern in Neolithic farmers» communities: Their populations grew too big, too quickly, and crashed right after they peaked.

The survey's aim is to catalog every known archaeological site in the area and to discover new ones in the process.

But the new boundaries exclude Cedar Mesa, a large plateau that hosts the monument's densest concentration of archaeological sites, which were occupied by Ancestral Puebloan farming communities from 500 BC to the mid-thirteenth century AD.

The researchers of the new study arrived at this conclusion after dating the archaeological remains at the Cerutti Mastodon site, which has pushed back the arrival of ancient humans to 130,000 years rather than just 15,000 years.

«Far more is permissible in Islam than people think,» explains Abdelaziz Aouragh,... Tunisia — «We have thousands of years of history; archaeological sites dating back to Phoenician... missed an opportunity to develop a new tourism model for the... For those

From our elevated vantage point at the museum, our guide dryly pointed out that a school was supposed to have been built there, but the inconvenience of finding an invaluable archaeological site forced city planners to relocate the new school's location further up the road.

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San Salvador's many attractions include the archaeological site where its earliest inhabitants, the Lucayan Indians, lived; five monuments at Landfall Park commemorating Columbus» arrival here, one underwater; the Dixon Hill Lighthouse; Watlings Estate, the ruins of a late 18th - century Loyalist plantation house, and other historical ruins; the New World Museum, with a display of artifacts from the time of the indigenous people and the life of Christopher Columbus; and the Bahamian Field Station, a center for research in archaeology, biology, geology and marine sciences.

Discovered relatively recently, the site is considered a very important archaeological discovery revealing new information about Moche culture.

Your days will be filled with port calls when you get to explore fascinating new towns, visit archaeological sites and bargain in local markets.

Explore one of the Seven Wonders of the New World at the famous archaeological site of Chichen Itza.

The archaeological site is surrounded by dense rainforest overlooking the new river lagoon and its temples are known for its elegant architecture.

Hike the legendary Inca Trail and marvel at Machu Picchu, one of the New Seven Wonders of the World, explore the Sacred Valley and ancient Inca archaeological sites on this 7 day tour which starts and ends in the captivating city of Cuzco.

Jon Rafman's first New York solo show turns the contemporary world into an archaeological site.

Hadrian's Wall and Great Wall of China partner up for new heritage strategy Heritage minister John Glen has announced a new partnership that will see representatives for the Great Wall of China and Hadrian's Wall in northern England share their expertise on managing and developing sites of major archaeological importance.

As elsewhere in London, the archaeological significance of Cabinet's new digs is compelling, that layering of an ultra-cool gallery dedicated to the art of the moment on a centuries - old site that was similarly devoted to the astonishment of those seeking entertainment.

On returning to New York in late spring 1953, he produced his first major works, the sounds of their titles recalling villages and archaeological sites of Morocco.

In the exhibition Hidden in Plain Sight the galleries are turned into a speculative — possibly future — archaeological site, providing a framework for a series of new, sensory works using methods from the fields of chemistry and industry to dissect and investigate the matter comprising different objects.

I'm chagrined to report that I sailed across the site of the 1452 eruption in 1975, but did not recognize the Kuwae caldera's island remnants as such, as I was searching the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu) for archaeological lithic sources, not palaeoclimate clues.

If current trends in global warming continue unmitigated, some of the world's most well - known and historically significant cultural landmarks — including the Statue of Liberty in New York City, the Tower of London in the United Kingdom, and the archaeological sites of Pompeii in Italy — could be destroyed by rising global sea levels over the next 2,000 years, according to new researNew York City, the Tower of London in the United Kingdom, and the archaeological sites of Pompeii in Italy — could be destroyed by rising global sea levels over the next 2,000 years, according to new researnew research.

So the researchers studied black mat sediment samples from 10 archaeological sites dating back to the Clovis people, the first human inhabitants of the New World.