Sentences with phrase «where archaeologists»

If you go to Valsay in Greenland, where the archaeologists have been digging recently, they have found the burial site where the major Viking settlement there used to exist.

Not only protecting sites of the Paracas, this is also the region where archaeologists discovered evidence of human occupation from 6500 BC.

A water temple complex where archaeologists think a «drought cult» offered sacrifices has been discovered at the Cara Blanca site in Belize.

It is a BC Heritage Site where archaeologists have found remains of an old First Nations midden.

Although there is only a slight genetic cline from north to south at a coarse level2, 3, recent analyses have revealed considerable fine - scale genetic structure in the Northern and Western parts of Great Britain, alongside striking homogeneity in Southern and Eastern England4 in the regions where archaeologists identify early Anglo - Saxon artifacts, cemeteries and communities.

But it's well after a handful of sites dated to the pre-Clovis period, including Page - Ladson in Florida, where archaeologists recently discovered a 14,500 - year - old stone biface.

Another promising site is a South African cave called Swartkrans, where archaeologists in the»80s found burned bones in a section dating between 1 million and 1.5 million years ago.

This means that reburial is only very rarely justified, and that it is undoubtedly unjustified in cases where archaeologists excavate long - dead, anonymous bodies.

This technology, named after the famous Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania where archaeologists Louis and Mary Leakey discovered the implements in the 1930s, consists of hitting a stone «core» with a stone «hammer» in such a way that a flake sharp enough to butcher an animal is struck off.

A partial view of the site where archaeologists are excavating the ancient mound.

Some of the most eye - opening new research comes from the western Amazon, where archaeologist Denise Schaan of the Federal University of Pará in Brazil has mapped clusters of mysterious land sculptures dug between 700 and 2,000 years ago.

Not exact matches

The remains of the medieval church where William Wallace is thought to have been made Guardian of Scotland after defeating the English army has been found by archaeologists.

Philp was brought up in West Wickham, close to the border of Bromley and Croydon, where his mother, Edna (née Mynott) was a primary school teacher and his father, Dr Brian Philp MBE FSA, an archaeologist.

The Annual Reports, appearing since 1995, contain news about the domain where history and human rights intersect, especially about the censorship of history and the persecution of historians, archivists, and archaeologists around the globe, as reported by various human rights organizations and other sources.

Assur, a 4500 - year - old temple - studded Assyrian city where kings and queens were laid to rest for centuries, is likely the next target, say archaeologists, who are desperately trying to piece together the extent of the damage.

Not so at The 106 Group, the private cultural - resource - management company in St. Paul, Minnesota, where the 30 - year - old archaeologist and ethnographer works.

«When it comes to the Bronze Age, we've been missing a smoking gun, where we have a battlefield and dead people and weapons all together,» says University College Dublin (UCD) archaeologist Barry Molloy.

Archaeologists think the bodies landed or were dumped in shallow ponds, where the motion of the water mixed up bones from different individuals.

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.

«Probably the most impressive single piece uncovered there is a section of seating with a marble balustrade, where people would watch the performances and listen to declamations,» says Darius Arya, a Rome - based archaeologist and executive director of the American Institute for Roman Culture.

Until that point, Bolderson had worked as a freelance archaeologist around England, mostly in urban environments, where she assessed building sites before development.

The manner in which artefacts are found, how deeply the are buried and where they are placed in relation to each other can provide a lot of information to archaeologists studying a site.

Traffic's history (and future) comes alive as Tom Vanderbilt joins a traffic archaeologist on the well - worn streets of Pompeii and, later on, seats us at the helm of the most sophisticated traffic computer network in the United States: the Los Angeles Department of Transportation's Automated Traffic Surveillance and Control, where a single engineer attempts to keep L.A. gridlock at bay on Oscar night.

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.

Miles Russell, a Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at Bournemouth University and one of the archaeologists leading the dig, said, «The discovery is of great significance as it is the only time where evidence of a villa and the villa's occupants have been found in the same location in Britain.

Archaeologists say the Scythians» Bronze Age ancestors were livestock breeders living in the highlands where modern - day Russia, Mongolia, China, and Kazakhstan intersect.

«They're like disposable razors,» says Matthew Des Lauriers, an archaeologist at California State University in Northridge, who has found the same kind of tools on Cedros Island off Baja California, where people lived more than 12,000 years ago.

Around the same time, a team of archaeologists from Israel and Poland began carrying out similar excavations at the Sobibór death camp, where the Nazis killed about a quarter of a million Jewish people.

More than 10 years ago, Polish archaeologists carried out a dig at Beec, the first of the Operation Reinhard camps, where the Nazis killed more than 434,000 Jews and an unknown number of Gypsies (Roma) and Poles, according to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

When the town was excavated in the 19th century, archaeologists found human - shaped cavities in the ash where bodies had decomposed.

As part of their careful documentation process, the archaeologists precisely map where they find every fragment.

A team led by Julie Schablitsky, an archaeologist with the University of Oregon, searched the Alder Creek area 30 miles west of Reno, Nevada, and located a site where they suspect the Donner family had camped out for five months.

That's where a team of archaeologists has found ancient stone tools and butchered mastodon bones that have been reliably dated to 14,550 years ago — more than 1000 years before scientists once thought humans first reached the New World.

Archaeologists believe the fires may have been lit as some sort of funeral ritual around where the toddler, known as the Lozoya Child, was placed around 38,000 to 42,000 years ago.

Led by archaeologist Alessandro Vanzetti of the University of Rome, La Sapienza, the researchers say that Ötzi's body and artifacts were in fact carefully placed on a stone platform 5 meters away from where the body was later found.

Archaeologists knew it was in Alexandria, but not where in Alexandria.»

On the other hand, Ann Olga Koloski - Ostrow, the self - professed «Queen of Latrines» and a classical archaeologist at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, who was not involved in the study, points out that it's difficult to know exactly how prevalent the use of human feces as fertilizer actually was during the Roman Empire: «We can just say that in some early farming texts, we know that they'd build the slave toilets over an area where the excrement could be collected and then spread over the crops, but that was just on isolated farms here and there.»

Before the war, I accompanied him, along with some foreign archaeologists, to a site deep in the flat desert of southern Mesopotamia, where he was directing a dig at a buried 5,000 - year - old Sumerian city.

Archaeologists have traced the use of Dried Fruits back thousands of years BC to ancient Egypt where they were prized for their sweetness and the long shelf life allowed them to be used for bartering (1)

This game takes place in Egypt where Lara and another archaeologist named Carter have to join forces and defeat a go...

Alison Sudol, «Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them» Age: 31 Why She Looks Familiar: She played archaeologist Emma Wilson in the TV series «Dig.»

I actually used to have a page in my notebook for writing them down, but I quit making it when it started to get too weird to read: when besides the normal things like the toilet backed up again, or they called to say they were turning off the electricity, there were things like she lost the ticket stub from some hippie concert twenty years ago where she met the guy she should have married but never saw again, or the color of the dryer lint made her remember a sweater she once had when she was an exchange student in Belgium, back when she thought she would become an archaeologist when she grew up, but now she was only someone who worked in a deli and sometimes did catering and couldn't even say one sentence in Flemish anymore.

Undeterred by world war and enemy submarines, Amelia Peabody — archaeologist - sleuth — once again sets sail for Egypt, where ghosts of an ancient past and specters of a present - day evil hover silently over an inscrutable land.

Undeterred by world war and enemy submarines, Amelia Peabody — Grandmaster Elizabeth Peters's indomitable archaeologist - sleuth — once again sets sail for Egypt, where ghosts of an ancient past and specters of a present - day evil hover silently over an inscrutable land.

A slight detour takes you to the ancient petroglyph site, where mysterious carvings surround a freshwater pool at the base of a waterfall — archaeologists believe them to be sacred symbols carved by Taino Indians over 1,000 years ago.

We already saw in UC4 that Cassondra was a big archaeologist herself, I'd see the story playing out where she's going on a hunt for some artifact & she hires a crew to help out w / the heavy lifting, and Drake's dad would be one of those crew members.

«In part two — The Dark Secrets of Helga Von Schabbs — our hero's search for the coordinates leads him to the city of Wulfburg where an obsessed Nazi archaeologist is exhuming mysterious artefacts that threaten to unleash a dark and ancient power.»

Stunning graphics and a huge open world aside, UAYEB is a solo story - driven game with a rich Mayan theme where players get to set off on a puzzle - filled adventure as they try to make sense of the world around them by collecting Mayan artifacts with the aid of a friendly archaeologist, Joanna.

A cover of Deep Purple's hit «Smoke on the Water» plays throughout the gallery, in a recording where the drummer happens to be an Iraqi archaeologist dedicated to recovering lost patrimony of his home country.

Editor's Note: This is the third in a series of reports by freelance writer Katherine Calos, who is traveling in China this week with a group of journalists and museum officials to see where the masterpieces in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts» current «Terracotta Army» exhibition were created and to talk with curators and archaeologists.