Sentences with phrase «says archaeologist»

The stones were later intentionally buried, says archaeologist Vince Gaffney.

«This is definitely the discovery of the century,» says archaeologist and Egyptologist Yukinori Kawae, a National Geographic Emerging Explorer.

«This new paper demystifies the prehistoric development of birch - bark tar production, showing that it was not predicated on advanced cognitive or technical skills but on knowledge of familiar, readily available materials,» says archaeologist Daniel Adler of the University of Connecticut in Storrs, who did not participate in the study.

«It's a really, really special set of circumstances,» says archaeologist Kristian Kristiansen of the University of Gothenburg in Sweden.

«You can't find anything to compare with that,» says archaeologist Jens - Henrik Bech of the Thisted Museum in Denmark.

«The authors make a good case» that the shells and pigments were used in «an aesthetic and presumably symbolic» way, says archaeologist Erella Hovers of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

«It is good to see this kind of research, but a definitive answer isn't really possible given the lack of chronological control,» says archaeologist Terry Hunt of the University of Hawaii, Manoa, who has worked extensively on the island.

The Y chromosome lineage will have a big impact on the emerging field of «archaeogenetics,» the reconstruction of human history from molecular genetics, says archaeologist Colin Renfrew of the McDonald Institute for Archeological Research in Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Because it is inaccessible, it probably isn't a burial chamber, says archaeologist Mark Lehner, director of Ancient Egypt Research Associates in Boston, who was not involved in the research.

«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.

Before the Spaniards arrived, inhabitants of the arid northern Peruvian coast clad massive sand dune — like ridges with an accidental form of «armor»: millions of discarded mollusk shells, which protected the ridges from erosion for nearly 4700 years and produced a vast corrugated landscape that «is visible from space,» says archaeologist Dan Sandweiss of the University of Maine, Orono, one of the paper's authors.

«Turkeys were rather revered animals» among people who lived in the Four Corners region of the U.S. Southwest about 700 to 2000 years ago, says archaeologist William Lipe of Washington State University, Pullman (WSU).

«This put a lot of stress on plant and animal life,» says archaeologist Steve Kuhn of the University of Arizona.

«Scholars have tended to shy away from the possibility that the ancient Near Easterners partook of «recreational» drugs, apart from alcohol, so it's good that someone is brave enough to look into it,» says archaeologist Glenn Schwartz at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.

Once people organized into city states, they may also have started large - scale production of pharmaceuticals, says archaeologist Luca Peyronel of the International University of Languages and Media in Milan, Italy.

Thanks to the new discoveries, though, «we have hope that at least some khipus might be understood,» says archaeologist Jeffrey Splitstoser of George Washington University in Washington, D.C.. Before Hyland's report, Splitstoser thought it likely that colored threads on khipus had arbitrary meanings assigned by their makers, making them indecipherable.

The ancient human colonisation of the islands to the south - east of the Wallace line is certainly a complex story, says archaeologist Roy Larick.

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.

«The work stands as an excellent example of how rigorous choice of samples and rigorous analysis makes the technique sound,» says archaeologist Paul Pettitt of Durham University in the United Kingdom, who was co-author of a paper applying the same method to cave art in Spain.

«There's no other place like it,» says archaeologist Nick Toth of Indiana University in Bloomington.

«It's horrific,» says archaeologist McGuire Gibson of the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute, who has conducted extensive fieldwork in Iraq since the 1960s.

The decision to analyze herbarium specimens is «innovative» and provides another piece of strong evidence for the tripartite hypothesis, says archaeologist Patrick Kirch, of the University of California, Berkeley, who was not involved in the study.

Some ancient Indo - European myths attribute healing powers to dogs, says archaeologist Paul Garwood of the University of Birmingham in England.

Despite this unexpected evidence of long - term mating among communities with different cultures and styles, the tempo of genetic change and the population sizes of farmers and hunter - gatherers remain poorly understood, says archaeologist Alasdair Whittle of Cardiff University in Wales.

Those Yamnaya pastoralists herded cattle and sheep, and some rode newly domesticated horses, says archaeologist David Anthony of Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York.

«The whole concept of an ethnic German... it's ludicrous when you look at the longue durée [long time] scale,» says archaeologist Aren Maeir of Bar - Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel.

These new findings, published this week online by the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science, are an important key to the puzzle of how technology emerged as humans dispersed across the globe, says archaeologist Ofer Bar - Yosef at Harvard University, who, like Straus, did not participate in this study.

«Most of the archaeological evidence for movement is based on artifacts, but artifacts can be stolen or copied, so they are not a real good proxy for actual human movement,» says archaeologist Doug Price of the University of Wisconsin in Madison, who tracks ancient migration by analyzing isotopes.

The idea that curvaceous figurines are prehistoric pornography is an excuse to legitimise modern behaviour as having ancient roots, says archaeologist April Nowell

Don't believe it, says archaeologist Steve Tuck from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

«It appears that violence in medieval London may have been largely tied to sex and social status,» says archaeologist Kathryn Krakowka at the University of Oxford.

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.

«They added charcoal and a liquid, possibly urine, to the mixture, so they knew how to combine substances and were able to experiment,» says archaeologist Christopher Henshilwood of the University of Bergen in Norway, who led the study.

«People think that it must have taken a long time to get anywhere, that it must have been difficult to travel long distances, but that is not true,» says archaeologist Marilee Wood, whose research focuses on the network's glass bead trade.

Populations that preceded H. sapiens likely reached India and developed regional versions of Middle Paleolithic tools over several hundred thousand years, says archaeologist Michael Petraglia of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany.

Tollense could force a re-evaluation of the whole period in the area from the Baltic to the Mediterranean, says archaeologist Kristian Kristiansen of the University of Gothenburg in Sweden.

The slopes where huge swaths of soil have been cleared away now resemble the stone - paved terraces of a Latin American pyramid, but that look, says archaeologist Brian Stewart of the University of Cambridge, may be the result of this recent dig, not the work of an ancient civilization.

«Before the excavation, we believed that Byzantium [the precursor to Istanbul] had been established in the seventh century B.C. by Greek colonists,» says archaeologist Ufuk Kocabas.

Most have predicted that something older will be found,» says archaeologist Shannon P. McPherron of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.

«As a species we evolved the way we did as a result of living in very dynamic landscapes that selected for adaptability,» says archaeologist Geoff Bailey of the University of York in the UK, who along with Geoffrey King of the Paris Institute of Earth Physics in France has spent over 20 years amassing evidence for the theory.

«That coincidence seemed too powerful to ignore,» says archaeologist and co-author David Meltzer of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.

The battle is regarded as one of the most important in Greek history, says archaeologist David Romano of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania.

«Here's the problem: Stone tools are the least - familiar things we excavate,» says archaeologist John Shea of Stony Brook University.

Garroway's proposal appears likely, especially in light of evidence that more than 10,000 years earlier, people in France and Spain made similar spinning disks decorated with animals that appeared to move as the toy twirled (SN: 6/30/12, p. 12), says archaeologist Michelle Langley of Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia.

Women could have been warriors during the Viking age, whether or not the Birka woman fought alongside men, says archaeologist Marianne Moen of the University of Oslo.

But our victory was far from a foregone conclusion, says archaeologist John Shea.

Israelites living in Egypt transformed that civilization's hieroglyphics into Hebrew 1.0 more than 3,800 years ago, at a time when the Old Testament describes Jews living in Egypt, says archaeologist and epigrapher Douglas Petrovich of Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Canada.

The researchers statistically corrected for such contamination, «but whether that is sufficient enough remains to be seen,» says archaeologist Katerina Douka of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany.

«The emergence of modern human behavior is one of the most important debates happening now,» says archaeologist Daniela Rosso of the University of Bordeaux and University of Barcelona.

Unless we understand something of life in the first century, says archaeologist Jonathan L. Reed, we have «no chance of understanding Jesus or Paul, Peter or Mary.»