Sentences with phrase «which archaeologists»

Chichén Itzá was a large city, which archaeologists think started gaining importance between 700 to 1,000 A.D.

Between A.D. 250 and about 950, which archaeologists call the Classic Period, the rainforest here was home to resplendent cities.

These rooms, which archaeologists recognize by their altars and other characteristic features, had annexes supplied with terra - cotta shafts up to 20 meters deep.

It was in part this gradual eroding of the buildings that formed the mounds in which archaeologists now dig up the ancient culture.

Indeed, all we can know about this people is here preserved, for they left no monuments, or buildings, or inscriptions from which the archaeologist might recapture their ancient civilization.

Not exact matches

In fact, «there has never been any report of a human population in which left - handed individuals predominate», according to archaeologist Natalie Uomini at the University of Liverpool in the UK.

I've always imagined that Browning was talking about the ruins of the Roman Forum, which for centuries, before the archaeologists started to dig, were known as the Campo Vaccino, or cow pasture.

Israeli archaeologist Yosef Garfinkel announced earlier this week several findings which may contribute toward a positive case for the veracity of biblical history, in particular the question of whether a centralized Israelite kingdom existed during the era of the biblically purported King David....

The story is basically that in 1980, archaeologists in Israel discovered a set of Ossuaries, which are stone boxes containing the bones of various families.

Archaeologists of the pre-Aryan Indus civilization have found statuettes of individuals in the lotus position of yoga meditation, which suggests the great antiquity of the phenomenon, at least in India.

When therefore we set out to study the events out of which it arose, and the part that its Founder played in them, we are not like archaeologists digging up the remains of a forgotten civilization, or palaeontologists reconstructing an extinct organism.

That being said, not many people are aware of these anomalies on our planet since there is no formal teaching which questions religions and / or deductions of our archaeologists; for this reason, we can not blame anyone who has been raised with strict religious doctrine wishing to display their religious symbol.

We, of course, did not find any artifacts that said «King David» or King Solomon» but we discovered at the site signs of a social transformation the region underwent, including the construction of a large edifice in a plan known to archaeologists as «the four - room house» which is common in Israel but is rare to non-existent elsewhere.

The site archaeologists have traditionally associated with Ai, nearby et - Tell, lacks destruction that could be dated to the time of Joshua, which raised questions about the accuracy of the conquest narrative.

Yosef Garfinkel, a highly respected archaeologist in Israel, said that the Tel Dan Stela (pictured above, left) «led to the collapse of the minimalist paradigm in which David was little more than a myth.

Ceramic evidence indicates occupation of the City of David, within present - day Jerusalem, as far back as the Copper Age (c. 4th millennium BCE) with evidence of a permanent settlement during the early Bronze Age (c. 3000 — 2800 BCE) The Execration Texts, which refer to a city called Roshlamem or Rosh - ramen] and the Amarna letters (c. 14th century BCE) may be the earliest mention of the city Some archaeologists, including Kathleen Kenyon, believe Jerusalem] as a city was founded by Northwest Semitic people with organized settlements from around 2600 BCE.

«The work of renovation should help archaeologists and historians gain a better sense of the tomb, which was damaged and greatly reduced by the fourth - century construction of the church,» Evans said.

When I was little I wanted to be an archaeologist (as well as a White House telephone switch operator and dentist which makes perfect sense, don't you think?)

Excavation head and Tallinn University archaeologist Jüri Peets hopes DNA will determine kinship between the men, which could provide another clue to how the Viking Age evolved.

The block on excavations has been the latest in a series of obstacles for archaeologists working in Egypt — the home of perhaps one - third of the world's antiquities, which reveal a vanished culture in unmatched detail (see «New research in an ancient land»).

An Archaeologist at The Australian National University (ANU) has discovered a prehistoric Bronze - Age barrow, or burial mound, on a hill in Cornwall and is about to start excavating the untouched site which overlooks the English Channel.

The Rochester team, which included several undergraduate students, collaborated with archaeologist Thomas Huffman of the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa, a leading expert on Iron Age southern Africa.

Yesterday, at the annual meeting of AAAS (which publishes Science) here, archaeologist Lori Collins of the University of South Florida, Tampa, showed how her team and Mexican researchers working with Proyecto Arqueológico Chalcatzingo, a team of Mexican archaeologists working to preserve the Chalcatzingo site, digitally deconstructed the 3D model (pictured) of the altar into individual rocks.

Morgan and University of Liverpool archaeologist Natalie Uomini arrived at their conclusions by conducting a series of experiments in teaching contemporary humans the art of «Oldowan stone - knapping,» in which butchering «flakes» are created by hammering a hard rock against certain volcanic or glassy rocks, like basalt or flint.

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.

RCHE archaeologist Dr Adam Brumm, who also participated in the study, said Hobbits are likely to have inhabited other Flores caves which may yield more recent signs of their existence.

Oates invited a team of American archaeologists to examine the area beyond the high mound, which covers only about one - fifth of the site's nearly 750 acres.

Government archaeologists continue to explore the unique site, which lies in 1,500 feet of water.

«This is indeed suggestive of a sustained regional population which had successfully adapted to the temperate environments of the southern Caucasus,» explains Wil Roebroeks, an archaeologist at Leiden University in the Netherlands.

This autumn, more than 20 archaeologists and conservators from Iraq and the United States will enter Nimrud, which is now controlled by the Iraqi government after nearby military successes.

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.

Here the archaeologists found an extensive archive of cuneiform tablets, which describe trade relations with Nagar and Mari.

The most detailed evidence of ancient acoustical design comes from the Stanford team studying Chavín de Huántar, which was constructed between 1300 and 500 b.c. Peruvian archaeologists first suspected the complex had an auditory function in the 1970s, when they found that water rushing through one of its canals mimicked the sound of roaring applause.

Archaeologists are rediscovering the ancient Maritime Silk Road, which once powered more East - West commerce than the famed Central Asian land route.

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.

In the 1930s, archaeologists attempted (with little success) to determine the blood types of mummies by identifying proteins with immunoassays, which test for antibody - antigen reactions.

In a paper published online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team led by David Meltzer, an archaeologist at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, in Texas, looks at the dating of 29 different sites in the Americas, Europe, and the Middle East in which impact advocates have reported evidence for a cosmic collision.

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

Remains of at least two Late Bronze Age initiation ceremonies, in which teenage boys became warriors by eating dogs and wolves, have turned up in southwestern Russia, two archaeologists say.

The memorial design — which involved a mile - long wall that ran past mass graves — sparked some back - and - forth between the Polish Ministry of Culture, which had planned the memorial, and Israel's Yad Vashem, which lobbied on behalf of the archaeologists.

So Thomas Cucchi, an archaeologist at the University of Aberdeen in the United Kingdom, decided to turn to the creatures living alongside humans at the time, specifically house mice (Mus domesticus), which live almost exclusively in or near houses and planted fields.

When the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan forced him and other archaeologists to relocate to other areas of interest, Sarianidi remembered this site, which locals call Gonur, and determined to return.

Not all religious authorities are invoking an absolute prohibition on physical digging at these camps, which has allowed productive dialogue to take place between archaeologists and rabbis.

Silverman's fieldwork discovered that the site is three times larger than archaeologists had thought, extending over about 150 hectares, of which 25 hectares — the heart of the site — are covered with pyramid - shaped temples.

«It is one thing to show that broken bones and modified rocks could have been produced by people, which [this paper does],» says Don Grayson, an archaeologist at the University of Washington in Seattle.

The authors of the paper used a «terrific combination» of dendro - ecology — which uses the rings of trees to determine their ages and reconstruct past environments — fire ecology, and LiDAR, a remote sensing technique based on laser light, says Steve Lekson, a Southwestern archaeologist at the University of Colorado, Boulder, who wasn't involved in the study.

The routine encounter had giant repercussions, launching a landmark criminal investigation in which more than 10 western archaeologists teamed up with law enforcement agents to form a federal task force devoted to combating looting of archaeological sites.

«As we learn more about the evolution of this microbiome in response to migration and changes in diet, health and medicine, I can imagine a future in which most archaeologists regard calculus as more interesting than the teeth themselves,» says Professor Collins.

But several U.S. and Iraqi archaeologists say that the minister wants to reopen the museum, which contains priceless artifacts from the first cities and empires, to show that Baghdad's long period of urban violence is over.

A collaborative project between British and Maltese archaeologists, of which we are the directors, has made spectacular discoveries about the artistic representations of the so - called mother goddesses.