Sentences with phrase «other archaeologists say»

The early fire dates creeping up on 2 million years ago could support that hypothesis, but other archaeologists say the evidence on the ground is thin.

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And when they came, the Holy Sepulchre was occupied by other Christian denominations,» said Israeli archaeologist Gabriel Barkay.
Archaeologists who have uncovered two massive carved stucco panels in the Mirador Basin of Guatemala's northern rain forest say they are the earliest known representation of the Mayan creation myth, predating other such artifacts by a millennium.
RCHE archaeologist Dr Adam Brumm, who also participated in the study, said Hobbits are likely to have inhabited other Flores caves which may yield more recent signs of their existence.
Stone - tool making in South Asia, as in Eurasia (SN: 11/1/14, p. 8), evolved in complex ways among relatively small groups belonging to the Homo genus that were spread across the landscape and occasionally came in contact with each other, says archaeologist Daniel Adler.
Looking for tsunami records in a sea cave was not something that would have occurred to Horton, and he says Daly's professional generosity — archaeologists are careful about who gets near their digs — and his own and Rubin's openness to insights from other disciplines made the research possible.
But João Zilhão, an archaeologist at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom who has often tussled with White and other researchers over the evidence from the Grotte du Renne, says that the new study «prove [s] the exact opposite of what [its] authors claim.»
«There's no other place like it,» says archaeologist Nick Toth of Indiana University in Bloomington.
For archeologists, these and other findings from the study of ancient DNA are «absolutely sort of mind - blowing,» says archaeologist Barry Cunliffe, a professor emeritus at the University of Oxford.
«This discovery is just phenomenal,» says Julia King, an archaeologist at St. Mary's College of Maryland who has studied other 17th century settlements in the region.
He is also one of archaeology's most controversial figures, winning praise from foreign archaeologists, who say he has done much to modernize an antiquated system, as well as scorn from those who say he claims credit for others» discoveries.
«By locating a spot mentioned in the papyrus,» says Taylor, «archaeologists now have a better chance to find other tombs still missing.»
«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.
Others, such as the French - Afghan archaeologist Zemaryalai Tarzi, say the niches should be left empty to memorialize a dark chapter in the nation's history.
On the other hand, Ann Olga Koloski - Ostrow, the self - professed «Queen of Latrines» and a classical archaeologist at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, who was not involved in the study, points out that it's difficult to know exactly how prevalent the use of human feces as fertilizer actually was during the Roman Empire: «We can just say that in some early farming texts, we know that they'd build the slave toilets over an area where the excrement could be collected and then spread over the crops, but that was just on isolated farms here and there.»
In the study, the archaeologists said that it was too soon to conclude whether Homo sapiens, Neanderthals, or other species were the ones who created these tools.
I won't get into all that except to say that many other climate archaeologists did not and do not agree with his choice of proxies and still support the existence of a Little Ice Age and a Medieval Warm Period.
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