Sentences with phrase «such as archaeologists»

Horn interrogated various «acquaintances» of the murder victim such as archaeologists from the museum who had been looking after Ötzi for years, or experts from forensic medicine, radiology and anthropology.

Not exact matches

Archaeologists have unearthed proto - dynastic religious artefacts, such as carved figures from Badari burial grounds, going back 1000 years before the 1st Pharaoh.

«Participants could dig with their hands in fish tanks filled with sand for artefacts such as coins and tiles as well as learning how to «bag» these finds exactly as archaeologists would do and even experiment in putting broken pieces back together.»

In addition to pieces of ochre that appear to have been engraved — the oldest such abstract art in the world — archaeologists have found tool kits that included abalone shells used as containers to mix ochre with crushed bone, charcoal, quartz and other material to make paint.

Forensic scientists such as pathologists, archaeologists and geneticists helped to identify the «disappeared,» victims of Argentina's military dictatorship killed between 1976 and 1983.

Groups such as the Association of Greek Archaeologists have complained that the subsequent relentless media coverage, floods of tourists and increased risk of looting are compromising ongoing work at the site.

Archaeologist Michael Cosmopoulos of the University of Missouri at St. Louis is skeptical: «Independent archaeological organizations, such as the Athens Archaeological Society, disagree.»

Still, factors other than climate fluctuations, such as hominid population declines or surges, may also have spurred ancient tool innovations to acquire more or different types of food, cautions archaeologist Yonatan Sahle of the University of Tübingen in Germany.

Archaeologists are keen to understand what made the Minoans so successful and how they interacted with nearby cultures such as the Egyptians.

Celebrated in art (such as the 19th - century engraving below), the tale persisted, unproven, until the 1980s, when archaeologists diving off the small island of Takashima found copper coins, metal helmets, and arrowheads dating to the 13th century.

University of Toronto archaeologist Timothy Harrison and colleagues are excavating a temple in the Tell Tayinat region of Turkey, built around 800 B.C. Though this time was thought to be a dark age when trade between Greece and the Middle East nearly ground to a halt, Harrison says that his finds — including ivory carvings, precious metal foils, and pottery — are a clear indication of cultural and economic exchange among cultures such as the Hittites, Aegeans, and Semites.

But until archaeologists have excavated domestic sites on the Maltese islands, we will not know the relative importance of other imported materials, such as flint and obsidian, for a domestic economy that was essentially based on local agriculture.

Archaeologists have previously identified the outline of feathers in its smaller dromeosaur relatives such as the chicken - sized Microraptor — some of which have been preserved exceptionally well in fine lake sediments.

Until recently, archaeologists believed that agriculture arose among people living along the banks of the rivers Tigris and Euphrates when, about 10 000 years ago, they suddenly learnt to sow and harvest cereal crops such as wheat and barley.

Past conventional geophysics methods, such as fieldwalking, enabled archaeologists to obtain field data across one hectare of a site per day.

James M. Adovasio, Ph.D., D.Sc., co-author of the study and a world acclaimed archaeologist at FAU's Harbor Branch, who is the foremost authority on ancient textiles and materials such as those used in basketry.

Lynden Cooper, Principal Investigator on the project, said: «To Upper Palaeolithic archaeologists sites such as Bradgate Park are the equivalent of a Pompeii, preserving a record of human existence from a snapshot in time millennia ago.

«Such was the impact of farming on our species that archaeologists have debated for more than 100 years how it originated and how it was spread into neighbouring regions such as Europe, North Africa and southern Asia,» said co-author Professor Stephen Shennan, UCL Institute of ArchaeolSuch was the impact of farming on our species that archaeologists have debated for more than 100 years how it originated and how it was spread into neighbouring regions such as Europe, North Africa and southern Asia,» said co-author Professor Stephen Shennan, UCL Institute of Archaeolsuch as Europe, North Africa and southern Asia,» said co-author Professor Stephen Shennan, UCL Institute of Archaeology.

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.

At Neolithic sites such as Çatalhöyük in Turkey, for example, archaeologists have found evidence that wild cattle bones were deposited in the foundations of mud - brick houses; the bones may be the remains of neighborhood feasts to celebrate the building of new dwellings.

«As research on ancient crop exchanges along the Silk Road matures, archaeologists should investigate not only the crops themselves, but also the suite of technologies, such as irrigation, that would have enabled «agropastoralists» to diversify their economies,» Li saiAs research on ancient crop exchanges along the Silk Road matures, archaeologists should investigate not only the crops themselves, but also the suite of technologies, such as irrigation, that would have enabled «agropastoralists» to diversify their economies,» Li saias irrigation, that would have enabled «agropastoralists» to diversify their economies,» Li said.

Many archaeologists such as Tom Dillehay, from Vanderbilt University shared that the research fails to entirely exclude the possibility of natural processes involved in the movement of the rocks, or creating the wear pattern on the stones.

The character of some of these horizons may not meet the traditional criteria used by some archaeologists to define valid early sites, such as spatially continuous and multiple activity areas with numerous features, artifact clusters, and diagnostic bifacial stone tool assemblages [6,26,27].

Many historical societies have kids - only spinoffs, such as Ohio Kids, that feature educational cartoon characters, like archaeologist Ohio Jones or history wizard TellZall.

As such, you had to unpick the story of the place like an archaeologist digging at ruins, or by reading the abstruse descriptions on items plundered from crisp - dry corpses, or rust - stuck chests.

Included too, with their own photographic work, are such historical figures as archaeologist / writer / secret agent Gertrude Bell (1868 — 1926), who played a major role in the establishment of modern Iraq.

Archaeologists who specialized in the study of old animal bones had developed six criteria for the identification of human cut marks, such as the precise shape of the incision and its trajectory.

The complexities of acting in this way largely relate to good communication with all parties and where necessary liaison with local or community groups to co-ordinate responses and ensure evidence is focussed, consistent and adheres to professional standards such as those of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists or Landscape Institute (for visualisations).