Sentences with phrase «what archaeologists»

Caracol Maya Ruins: Caracol is a classic example of what archaeologists have unearthed in the Cayo District.

What archaeologists can surmise is that this cave was used between the Early Classic (200 - 600 AD) to the Late Classic (600 - 900 AD) periods of time.

They explain what each building was used for and some have drawings of what archaeologists believe the buildings once looked like.

This lesson helps students understand what archaeologists find, why they search for artifacts, and how they reconstruct them.

Makes you wonder what our archaeologists might have wrong about ancient cultures, doesn't it?

These are the 800 year old remains of what archaeologists believe was a witch from the Middle Ages after seven nails were found driven through her jaw bone Free Sue's Witch Magic Makeover games for everybody!

This is what archaeologists use to determine the age of human - made artifacts.

Herb Maschner, an Arctic archaeologist at the University of South Florida in Tampa, agrees and says the careful excavation methods and analysis serve as a good example of what archaeologists need to do to answer questions about ancient people living in central Alaska where the conditions for preserving bones and artifacts are «notoriously» bad.

Supporters of a proposed Hindu temple say their cause has been bolstered by what archaeologists have uncovered at the Ayodhya site (inset).

That communication, or signaling, is what archaeologists and anthropologists call symbolic behavior, and it's why ochre use is often cited as a proxy for the cognitive ability of the people who used it.

Was there any kid who, upon learning what an archaeologist was, didn't want to be one?

This is what archaeologist Robert Power has discovered based on new research on ancient Neanderthal dental plaque.

Not exact matches

What it's about: Archaeologist and professional swashbuckler Indiana Jones (played by Harrison Ford) is hired by the United States government to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis do.

Archaeologists have collaborated with Liverpool John Moores University's Face Lab specialists - who used sophisticated software to create an digital image of what one of the soldiers looked like.

Will Federal money be used for archaeologists to find those magic sunglasses????? What about those magic underwear??

Archaeologists have found new evidence about the time frame of the biblical texts, based on what's essentially a shopping list.

When an archaeologist does a dig at a site and finds a piece of broken pottery, what does he say?

found nothing but a rusty nail and what looked like very rusted bottlecap... perhaps these credible «modern» archaeologist types and I are both digging in the wrong spot...

Together with Soviet archaeologists, she was able to document the Caspian Steppes homeland of what has been variously dubbed the Battle - Axe Culture, the Corded Wear Culture, or, Gimbutas» preference, the Kurgan Culture, so called from the type of burial its people accorded their elites, the chariot - driving, horse - riding warriors who overran the farm communities of Europe beginning sometime in the fifth millennium b.c..

Archaeologists have unearthed 2 stunning boxes in Jerusalem, and what they contain is sending shivers down atheists»...

«But archaeologists are not interested in measuring specific elements; we measure everything and figure out later what's relevant.»

Commanding an army of workers bearing chisels and brushes, the iconoclastic Israel Finkelstein, a Tel Aviv University archaeologist and director of the Megiddo Expedition, orchestrates an upheaval of his own: By opening the belly of Megiddo, he is challenging the narrative of the Bible, upending ancient Israeli history and derailing what we thought we knew about the Iron Age in this region called the Levant.

As Egypt struggles to determine its future without Mubarak, archaeologists are wondering what their field might look like without Hawass.

Archaeologists studying the children's skeletal remains noted signs of what they call green - bone burning — bone that has burned with flesh still attached.

But none of these examples relate even remotely to the kinds of scientific exploration archaeologists perform, or to what goes on in modern museums.

The outsider may be surprised to learn that earth scientists and archaeologists disagree strongly about what caused the destruction of ancient civilizations.

Digging just a few hundred yards away on the main mound of what today is called Tell Brak, the archaeologists recently uncovered large buildings and extensive workshops from the same period — around 3800 B.C. — as well as imported material and fancy tableware.

Thanks to Google Earth and other open - access imagery, amateur archaeologists are making spectacular finds — but what are we losing?

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

Based on the number of sponge boats, the number of divers, how long they go down, and how deep they go — all that stuff — we calculated once that if we interviewed every sponge diver about what they saw on the bottom, we'd learn as much as if one of us nautical archaeologists swam for a year.

But what really stunned archaeologists was that the artefacts on this one vessel came from at least 11 different cultures — from a gold scarab bearing the name of the Egyptian queen Nefertiti to copper from Cyprus and tin from central Asia.

«As archaeologists, we go with what we have.

And if archaeologists do turn up any fishy remains, she says, it's hard to know just what kind of fish it was.

«What we're looking at is probably the beginnings of the utilization of salmon,» says Ben Potter, an archaeologist at UA Fairbanks, and a co-author of the study.

What was a disaster for the ancient people of Sanyangzhuang is a miracle for modern archaeologists.

What will future archaeologists make of our most cherished cultural objects?

What is left of the cross, which dates from the 8th or 9th century, is now in St Peter's church at Hackness near Scarborough in North Yorkshire and its strange marks have been mystifying archaeologists.

Rudenko's dig diaries contain reports of weather far colder than what modern archaeologists experience in the Altai.

Striding toward an excavation near the base of the pinnacle, archaeologist Tim Kendall pauses momentarily to admire what he calls the «little mountain with big secrets.»

Archaeologists would want to mount a rescue dig — exactly what anthropological geneticists are doing these days.

The discovery, which inspired a National Geographic - funded excavation and report, made archaeologists wonder what other secrets the caves might hold.

For archaeologists, diet is not just a question of what people had for dinner.

But João Zilhão, an archaeologist at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom who has often tussled with White and other researchers over the evidence from the Grotte du Renne, says that the new study «prove [s] the exact opposite of what [its] authors claim.»

Forensic archaeologists are finally exploring what lies beneath the dirt — but not without resistance

Bob Holmes explored what clues the archaeologists of AD 100,000 would unearth in the absence of a written record (3...

Bob Holmes explored what clues the archaeologists of AD 100,000 would unearth in the absence of a written record (3 March, p 48).

«So this shines a spotlight on a huge area of ignorance: what people were doing when sea level was lower than at present,» says Geoff Bailey, a coastal archaeologist at the University of York in England.

«What was believed before our study was that Europe was the center of the earliest explosion in human creativity, especially cave art,» says geochemist and archaeologist Maxime Aubert of Griffith University, Gold Coast, in Australia, who led the new study.

Yet despite its size and importance, archaeologists still don't understand how this vast, lost culture began, how it ended, and what went on in between.

In a paper the journal Science published last June, Tom Dillehay, an anthropological archaeologist at Vanderbilt University, revealed that the squash seeds he found in the ruins of what may have been ancient storage bins on the lower western slopes of the Andes in northern Peru are almost 10,000 years old.