Sentences with phrase «other archaeological»

Responsible for handling feature excavation, performing artifact collection, planning view and profile drawings, and other archaeological investigations.
The rare collection of artefacts includes huge wooden boats, weapons such as daggers, swords and cannons and other archaeological digs.
From the Amathus ruins to the medieval castle, Kolossi Castle, ancient Kourion and other archaeological sites, Limassol is a historical marvel that is worth exploring.
But there are many other archaeological sites to find.
It is located in the midst of the hotel complex, about five minutes from the center of Cancun and nearby are Mayan ruins at the ancient city of Chichen Itza, among other archaeological wonders of the country.
Apart from the Kukulkan Pyramid, in Chichen Itza there many other archaeological sites to visit, all carrying traces from Mayan Culture in many ways.
Other archaeological sights you will visit include Sacsayhuaman, Kenko, Tambomachay, the Incan Baths, and Puca - Pucara.
Hundreds of thousands of tourists travel to Cusco each year to visit the very well marketed Machu Picchu and other archaeological sites in the region.
One of the things that makes Tulum stand out from other archaeological sites in Mexico is its proximity to the ocean.
This is a brand new program which promotes the arrival of Peruvian visitors in Machu Picchu, taking advantage of the local train's less demanded itineraries, between Ollantaytambo and Machu Picchu Pueblo, and vice-versa, which allows a longer stay in Machu Picchu, to visit other archaeological complexes, such as Wiñaywayna, the Temple of the Moon and others still that can not normally be appreciated on a short visit.
CODE: 5184660008 Optimal Machu Picchu (03 Days / 02 Nights) This is a brand new program which promotes the arrival of Peruvian visitors in Machu Picchu, taking advantage of the local train's less demanded itineraries, between Ollantaytambo and Machu Picchu Pueblo, and vice-versa, which allows a longer stay in Machu Picchu, to visit other archaeological complexes, such as Wiñaywayna, the Temple of the Moon and others still that can not normally be appreciated on a short visit.
The town is home to a Medieval Museum, a castle and other archaeological sites, as well as a sculpture park for all of your cultural needs.
Other archaeological material includes stingray spines, an item used to draw blood.
The whole Trails» network that connects the Incan City of Machu Picchu and other archaeological compounds has a construction design in strict harmony with the natural surroundings and landscape, as great stretches of the trails are ledges, at the edge of deep abysses, surrounded by exuberant vegetation, with stairs carved in live rock.
This tour allows a longer stay in Machu Picchu, to visit other archaeological complexes, such as Wiñaywayna
«This is a great piece of work,» says Alexander Bentley, an anthropologist at Durham University in the U.K. Bentley adds that the new findings, including the signs of violence on the skeletons — such as multiple skull fractures — are consistent with other archaeological evidence from Central Europe that men raided outside communities and captured their women.
But no other archaeological sites have yielded evidence for teenage male war bands or canine - consuming initiation rites, raising doubts about Anthony and Brown's proposed scenario, he argues.
By about 1200 B.C.E., the Phoenicians began building artificial harbors, a period which corresponds to other archaeological evidence that ship traffic was increasing at that time.
Previous research based on representations of chickens on ceramics and paintings, plus bones from other archaeological sites, suggested that chickens were first introduced to Africa through North Africa, Egypt and the Nile Valley about 2,500 years ago.
A third - century coin, recently excavated in southern England, has brought to light an unknown chapter of Roman history: the troubled reign of Domitianus, an emperor whose hold on power was so fleeting that the only other archaeological evidence of his existence is a similar coin found a century ago and dismissed as a hoax.
«There are visual references to other archaeological sites, like the great pyramids,» Miller said.
According to other archaeological finds, the tamales were served topped with either a squash seed sauce (pipián) or a chile sauce much like we eat today.
Instead of behaving in a professional manner, our military invaded Iraq with far too small a force; failed to respond adequately when parts of the Iraqi Army (and Baathist Party) went underground; tolerated an orgy of looting and lawlessness throughout the country; disobeyed orders and ignored international obligations (including the obligation of an occupying power to protect the facilities and treasures of the occupied country — especially, in this case, Baghdad's National Museum and other archaeological sites of untold historic value); and incompetently fanned the flames of an insurgency against our occupation, committing numerous atrocities against unarmed Iraqi civilians.
This dating to before Abraham's time seems to be supported by bone fragments and other archaeological remains.

Not exact matches

OKLAHOMA CITY — Thousands of ancient clay tablets, seals and other Iraqi archaeological objects that were smuggled into the U.S. and shipped to the head of arts and crafts chain Hobby Lobby were returned to the Iraqi government on Wednesday.
The city of Cusco itself is home to impressive colonial churches and the remains of other Incan sites, a distinction that led Lonely Planet to call the city «the undisputed archaeological capital of the Americas.»
In a 2016 paper Gauvreau said other oral histories could be further legitimized through archaeological digs.
19th century, archaeological finds (e.g. earth and timber fortifications and towns, the use of a plaster - like cement, ancient roads, metal points and implements, copper breastplates, head - plates, textiles, pearls, native North American inscriptions, North American elephant remains etc.) is not interpreted by mainstream academia as proving the historicity or divinity of the Book of Mormon.This evidence is viewed by mainstream scholars as a work of fiction that parallels others within the 19th century «Mound - builder» genre that were pervasive at the time.
@David The Book of Mormon mentions several animals, plants, and technologies that are not substantiated by the archaeological record between 3100 BC to 400 AD in America, including the following: ass, cow, horses, ox, domesticated sheep, swine, goats, elephants, wheat, barley, silk, steel, swords, scimitars, chariots and other elements.
There are so many facts that have been proven not only by other writings but also archaeological finds that the bible has mentioned that have been proven to be true.
There are a number of discussion groups on the Bible and the ancient world and hundreds of Web sites that provide exegetical, archaeological or other helps.
In the process, Barr exposes other foibles of more recent efforts to maintain that tradition of interpretation: a tendency toward specialization in historical and linguistic cognate fields that avoids theological issues and ironically reduces them to matters archaeological and historical; a style of «maximal conservativism» that approximates earlier positions taken on dogmatic grounds by a current process of selectively appropriating the most conservative elements of a variety of more critical positions; a surprising (and again ironic) tendency to offer «naturalistic» reinterpretations of the miraculous within the highly supernaturalistic inerrancy framework; and so on.
For example, present archaeological theory explains artifacts in terms of «primitive» religion and refuses to entertain other possibilities (p. 32).
It seemed that too many of the archaeological arguments advanced in support of the Bible story were convincing only to those who wanted to be convinced, and the «archaeological solutions» to problematic historical questions tended to sidetrack the search for other possible solutions.
But a range of other rocks appear in the archaeological record, from the yellow ochre goethite to the often - dramatic specular hematite, sometimes called specularite.
Most archaeologists have deciphered history in 200 - year increments, but Finkelstein now can narrow construction, destruction and other events in antiquity to within as little as three decades, helping him refine the archaeological clock.
The archaeological record suggests ochre had some other practical uses, turning up on tools and weapons.
The Bell Beaker culture comprised at least two genetically distinct populations and initially represented a spread of ideas more than of people, unlike other notable prehistoric archaeological cultures in Europe.
Although some see this as an understandable response to the history of artifacts being illicitly exported, others complain that it is devastating for archaeological science.
Many of these supposed ancient cultural features lie uncomfortably close to established archaeological sites being studied by Miracle and others.
Bosnia is also home to one of the most exciting archaeological finds of the Neolithic, a 7,000 - year - old settlement of 3,000 people living in a village surrounded by battlements and trenches, perhaps larger than any other known settlement of that age.
According to the authors of this paper entitled «The fossil teeth of the Peking Man,» there are similarities between the teeth of Zhoukoudian and those of other Chinese archaeological sites from a similar period, but they also highlight the differences from other teeth ascribed either to Homo erectus or other species of hominins from Africa and Europe.
«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.
The Captain Kidd shipwreck contains in situ archaeological material, while the others comprise artifacts that were raised from the sea in the past and subsequently returned there.
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.
You then fly north to the archaeological gem Cuzco, onetime capital of the Inca Empire — and from there carry on to other remarkable monuments and ruins among the Andean peaks, ending on the emerald terraces of the so - called Lost City of Machu Picchu.
The archaeological project has brought to light many other significant finds during the 2016 summer season, and work at the site will be resumed next year.
Likewise, certain aspects of group structure and social behaviour distinguish humans from other primates and almost certainly emerged through major evolutionary events, yet there has been no consensus on how to detect aspects of group behaviour in the fossil or archaeological records.
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.
Experts agree that other undisturbed archaeological troves are likely to be found on similarly inaccessible tracts — perhaps on Navajo reservations or military ranges — but they doubt any could equal Range Creek's size and scope.
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