Sentences with phrase «remains excavated»

Human remains excavated by archeologist Phil Orr from Arlington Springs on Santa Rosa Island in 1959, recently yielded a radio - carbon date of over 13,000 years of age.

Analysis of prey remains excavated from an histoirc bald eagle nest on San Miguel Island, California.

The fact that a discovery of such significance has been made thanks to reviewing the remains excavated in the 1970s provides the researcher with proof of «the importance and need to review old excavations.

Organic remains excavated in and around the caves helped the archaeologists reconstruct an environment very different from the expanse of sand and stone that surrounds the dig today.

Not exact matches

A monumental residence built in the 10th century B.C. and excavated this past fall has been dubbed «Solomon's Palace,» even though there's no direct connection to the Israelite king outside of the dating, which was done through pottery remains and stratigraphic chronology.

HS2 Ltd will excavate sections of the ground to enable the removal of the remains which will be re-interred elsewhere.

Archaeologists do not excavate «facts»; they excavate material remains — city ruins, wall foundations and potsherds.

Recent Maritime archaeology and technology has found and excavated the remains of the Royal Navy ships Erebus and Terror sent in the middle of the nineteenth century to discover the northwest passage.

The remains, thought to be over 5000 years old, had been excavated from the site in 2008 and are currently being kept for research by scientists at the University of Sheffield.

The scientists and volunteers were excavating a site that produced parts of several immature sauropods when Dana Biasatti, then a student at UT - D, «stretched her legs» and came upon the remarkable remains of an adult titanosaur a few hundred yards away.

In excavating for the works, a large number of animal remains, ancient coins, and other curious objects were found, most of which have been deposited in the British Museum.»

The hobbit team has continued excavating Liang Bua — mainly in search of more hominin remains, but also to better understand the geology of the enormous cave.

Using several methods, the team dated newly excavated rock and dirt that had accumulated in the same sediment layer as the hominin remains, and discovered that they are between 100,000 and 60,000 years old.

A group of researchers working at the Els Casots site in the 1990s excavated the remains of a species of crocodile that was until then known only to have lived in southern France.

The two scholars have spent much of their careers excavating far to the south of Mersa Gawasis, uncovering the remains of ancient Axum, the seat of a kingdom that arose around 400 B.C. in what is now northern Ethiopia and Eritrea.

Their finds include the world's largest duck - billed dinosaur, the largest dinosaur skull ever excavated, and approximately 60 separate partial remains of Triceratops, the three - horned behemoth common to this area of North America at the time.

The authors of this study analyzed previously excavated Alvarezsaurid remains from the Turonian Bissekty Formation of Uzbekistan.

Paleontologist John Kappelman of the University of Texas at Austin is finding the answer in northern Ethiopia, where he recently excavated the remains of five new elephant relatives (including the tusks seen here), huge rodent like hyraxes, and a late Arsinoitherium, a seven - foot - tall rhino - shaped beast that sported a pair of enormous conical horns on its snout.

Thirdly, unlike bone remains, of which only a small percentage have been excavated, parchments are above ground, archived and in the case of legal documents, directly related to specific dates — a level of resolution largely unachievable with any other historic DNA source.

DNA analysis confirms that bones excavated from underneath a parking lot in Leicester, England, are the remains of the vilified English king, Richard III

But French archaeologists excavating a large Neolithic village in Cyprus reported the discovery of an intact skeleton of a cat carefully buried beside the remains of a human, along with various tools and ceremonial objects.

The 4 - square - meter area of the bone bed already excavated has yielded 10 skulls and hundreds of remains, suggesting that the creatures became concentrated in one area and then died when the lake they inhabited dried up, the researchers say.

The study took advantage of exceptionally preserved horse remains in royal Scythian burials, such as the site of Arzhan, Tuva Republic, where over 200 horses have been excavated but also at Berel», Kazakhstan, where no less than 13 horses were preserved in a single, permafrozen funerary chamber.

They notified local tribes and quickly came to an agreement that allowed them to excavate and study the remains and keep the tribes involved in the research.

The long - term retention of excavated ancient human remains is a fundamental principle of scientific research, regulated by professional ethics and guidelines, and is a museum practice that has been much examined around the world.

That changed in 2013, when researchers excavating the remains of a Canaanite palace at Tel Kabri in Israel uncovered 40 large ceramic jars, pictured above, in a storage room dated to the Middle Bronze Age (1900 to 1600 B.C.E.).

Three years later, Philip — who was probably in his mid-40s — was assassinated at his daughter's wedding celebration, and it wasn't until the late 1970s, when two male skeletons were excavated from a pair of royal tombs in Vergina, Greece, that researchers believed they had found the monarch's remains.

Mundorff, a forensic anthropologist, wanted to learn how the team excavated and exhumed graves, and then sorted and identified co-mingled human remains — her area of expertise.

The dinosaur's remains were excavated from the uppermost level of the Hell Creek rock formation in North and South Dakota.

Researchers discovered the massive skeleton of Dreadnoughtus in 2005 and have spent several years carefully excavating and analyzing its remains.

For the study, Loewen and his team excavated the remains and analyzed them.

Interestingly, the study, led by Ashley Sharpe, an archaeologist from Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, revealed that the remains of the two dogs excavated in Ceibal in Guatemala indicated isotopes that the animals likely adapted a drier and mountainous environment.

The research, led by a team from Tel Aviv University, excavated remains from Misliya Cave on Mount Carmel, northern Israel.

But the details remain fuzzy, because so few researchers have excavated in Asia.

In 1939, Professor von Schulmuth, excavating near the Orange River, unearthed the remains of Hottentot dogs.

Other Roman remains include the ruins of the Grotte del Pilato, caves excavated along the shores of the port town by the Romans to house fish hatcheries to feed the local populace.

An estimated 4,000 structures remain, only 20 % excavated.

Many of the Tikal ruins remain unexplored; who knows what secrets are left to be excavated, and what else we will learn about this ancient and amazing Mayan culture of Guatemala.

The reserve boasts the Klipgat Cave, which is one of three places where old remains have been excavated in South Africa.

Sections of the medieval walls that once enclosed the town survive, along with a Romanesque gate that dates back to the 13th century, and the remains of a Roman settlement and necropolis are currently being excavated.

Today, the remains of three plazas have been excavated, including several pyramids, one of which reaches 12.2 meters (40 feet) in height.

At another friendly town called Chincheros, they are still excavating what allegedly are the remains of an old palace belong to an Inca emperor.

Only a small portion of Coba has been excavated and many of the structures remain hidden in the jungle, overgrown with jungle vegetation, while the ruins that have been partially excavated continue to have trees and plants growing through cracks in the rocks.

Through actively engaging with public institutions, the artist excavates historical data that would otherwise remain invisible.

As part of their archaeological duties, forensic anthropologists specialize in the use of digging tools to excavate the remains of a subject without physical damage or alteration to evidence.