Sentences with phrase «surveyed by archaeologists»

Named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2014, Poverty Point was first surveyed by archaeologists in 1913.

Foley had high hopes for the area because it had been a port for millennia and had never been surveyed by archaeologists.

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Standing above a slope at the southern part of the tel, he surveyed the handiwork left by archaeologists whose labors were well intentioned for the time but whose technologies were crude compared with modern techniques.

The site dates back to around 2,000 BC and was discovered by chance when ANU Archaeologist Dr Catherine Frieman, who was conducting geophysical surveys of a known site outside the village of Looe in Cornwall, was approached by a farmer about a possible site in a neighbouring field.

Lidar units on planes and helicopters can survey the terrain below quickly and accurately during flight; archaeologists can record every detail of a site down to the inch by sending a lidar unit through it; and most recently, a computer vision system in an autonomous car or robot can instantly acquaint itself with its surroundings.