Sentences with phrase «pottery sherds»

There, they unearthed dozens of pottery sherds, which they reassembled into jars, some of which were emblazoned with logos that looked like bunches of grapes (above).

Archaeologists who look for pottery sherds will not see coins, and, conversely, those who look for coins will not find sherds.

That's because the modern country has just laid claim to the most ancient evidence for winemaking in Eurasia: wine - soaked pottery sherds that push back the genesis of fermented grape beverages in the region to nearly 8000 years ago.

The findings could make archaeologists pay more attention to featureless pottery sherds, or those found moved from where they had been placed or discarded in antiquity, Wiktorowicz says.

Conducted daily GPS of the dig progress, collected pottery sherds and material culture, supervised bone cleaning, and using skills from my dental experience assisted with paleo - mag collection.

She has watched dinosaur auctions, witnessed rocket launches, licked ancient pottery sherds in Cyprus and flown in zero gravity.

tl; dr (abbreviation for too long; didn't read) is an internet slang expression commonly used in discussion forums as a shorthand response to previous TL dating of pottery sherds and baked soil from the Xian Terracotta Army Site, Shaanxi Province, China

Radiocarbon dating further revealed the pottery sherds were made around 5800 — 6000 B.C.E., some 500 to 1000 years before the previous record holder at the Hajji Firuz Tepe archaeological site in Iran, they report today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

«The discovery of proteins for CCHFV in the pottery sherds is very exciting,» Corthals says.

A previous researcher, archaeologist James Richardson III of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, had noted an abundance of shells, pottery sherds, and fire pits covering these beach ridges, so the University of Maine researchers decided to study the sand formations and their origins.