Sentences with phrase «tools by archaeologist»

Not exact matches

The reason Palaeolithic humans were thought to have lived solely on wild meat, says Revedin, is that previous plant evidence was washed away by overzealous archaeologists as they cleaned the tools at dig sites.

The first person in each group was taught by archaeologists how to make artifacts called Oldowan tools, which include fairly simple stone flakes that were manufactured by early humans beginning about 2.5 million years ago.

Archaeologists largely believe that the first Americans arrived by a land bridge from Asia about 15,000 years ago, and some went on to develop Clovis tools (see «A history of the first Americans in 9 1/2 sites»).

Locals then developed their own variations on Middle Paleolithic tools, says a team led by archaeologists Kumar Akhilesh and Shanti Pappu, both of the Sharma Centre for Heritage Education, India, in the city of Chennai.

In 2016, a team led by University of Victoria archaeologist April Nowell and her colleague Cam Walker, a biological anthropologist with Archaeological Investigations Northwest Inc. in Portland, Ore., used CIEP to analyze tools found at a 250,000 - year - old animal processing site in Jordan's Shishan Marsh.

Archaeologists discovered it was a useful tool in 1999, when it was used to expose the text of scrolls blackened by the eruption of Vesuvius in A.D. 79.

For most of the 20th century, archaeologists believed the first residents of the Americas arrived 13,200 years ago and belonged to the so - called Clovis culture, defined by their distinctive fluted stone tools.

The 32 stone tools, made of black flint and many of them still sharp, were discovered by amateur archaeologists at Pakefield, Suffolk.

It was discovered in 1964 by archaeologist Nikolai Dikov, who found spear points and tools that he carbon - dated to about 14,300 years old.

Since then, archaeologists have begun collecting a treasure trove of Iron Age and Bronze Age weapons, helmets, jewelry, and even a few stone tools from the Neolithic period, roughly 6000 B.C. Best of all, the exposed artifacts may be just a hint of what lies buried in the surrounding 30 - square - mile area, which should be well preserved by the valley's oxygen - poor, waterlogged soil.

The cut marks started a heated debate as some archaeologists claimed that they were not made by stone tools but were the result of probable animal or human trampling.

Archaeologists have discovered the oldest stone tools used by early humans in Kenya.

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].