Sentences with phrase «on archeological digs»

He first entered this field as a modern - day Indiana Jones, working as a technology specialist on archeological digs in the Jordanian desert.

(iii) you are a complete blowhard who has never studied one subject of university level biology, never been on an archeological dig, never studied a thing about paleontology, geology, astronomy, linguistics or archeology, but feel perfectly sure that you know more than the best biologists, archeologists, paleontologists, doctors, astronomers botanists and linguists in the World because your mommy and daddy taught you some comforting stories from Bronze Age Palestine as a child.

I actually spent a summer in college on an archeological dig and even took anthropology.

«It was like we were on an archeological dig on sacred ground,» Woodard recalls.

That prepping has taken her all over the world: working as a research assistant for an author in Venice, Italy; getting a master's degree in philosophy at the University of Cambridge in England; helping on an archeological dig of Ancient Tiberias in Israel, where she unearthed a stack of ninth - century vases; working in Iraq as a public diplomacy officer and conducting research for generals; raising money for schools in Afghanistan for Congresswoman Jean Schmidt (R - OH); traveling to China to learn about how children of migrant workers access education; learning Arabic.

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Consider this... a person goes to college, gets a four year degree in archaeology (or some antiquities preservation analog); spends summers sifting through sand and rock and gravel, all the while taking graduate level classes... person eventually obtains the vaunted PhD in archaeology... then works his / her tail off seeking funding for an archeological excavation, with the payoff being more funding, and more opportunities to dig in the dirt... do you think professional archaeologists are looking hard for evidence of the Exodus on a speculative basis... not a chance... they know their PhD buys them nothing more than a job at Tel Aviv Walmart if they don't discover and publish... so they write grants for digs near established sites / communities, and stay employed sifting rock in culturally safe areas... not unless some shepard stumbles upon a rare find in an unexpected place do you get archeological interest and action in remote places... not at all surprising that the pottery and other evidence of the Exodus and other biblical events lie waiting to be discovered... doesn't mean not there... just not found yet...

Let's kick things off on a small note of positivity — which, to be frank, is equivalent to a 10 - man archeological dig amid scads of dusty, indistinct murk.

«Scenarios in the past have involved a goose kill on a lake, a break - in at the water quality lab, food tampering at a restaurant, faked primitive artifacts at an archeological dig, and an illegal toxic waste dump site.»

Maureen Kowker, a teacher at Bellevue Public Schools in Nebraska, received a unique gift one year from her wish list: an archeological dig site on campus, thanks to parents.

Eventually, the fire caught and he placed his kettle on top, as battered, as encrusted as something dug up by an archeological team, and waited for it to boil.

Scores of 2,000 - year - old Roman roof tiles were found in Gloucester, England in an archeological dig in 1969, but an archaeologist just recently noticed a cat's footprint on one of the tiles while sifting through them in the city museum, thus proving what cat parents have known for centuries — that cats will walk across whatever we're working on!

His archeological digs and museum interventions celebrate the value of exploration and learning, and invite audiences to embark on their own journey of intellectual discovery.

You'll want something more rugged for use on a fire truck, at archeological dig sites, in zoo enclosures, or working a remote lumber forest in the Pacific Northwest, though.