Sentences with phrase «years as an archaeologist»

She worked about five years as an archaeologist in Hawaii and California, jumping from job to job and living out of a duffle bag in hotels and campgrounds.

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Wirlu - murra elders have led a team of anthropologists and archaeologists on an expedition into the outback as part of a three - year cultural mapping initiative sponsored by Fortescue Metals Group.

If your belief is that our world is only 10,000 years old because God got bored and magically created all living things exactly as they are today over the course of a week, you are basically calling all the work and discoveries by archaeologists and anthropologists a bunch of baloney.

As The Washington Post explains, the discovery of the new location first began 15 years ago when a team at the Tower of David Museum began an expansion project: «But the story took a strange turn when archaeologists started peeling away layers under the floor in an old abandoned building adjacent to the museum in Jerusalem's Old City.»

@tallulah13 apparently google is not the most defining answer to scholarly study, He, Kedorlaomer, was a person of antiquity mentioned in the Bible, that was already a given.He was a king 4000 years ago and his treasures were discovered by archaeologists not that long ago.Up to the discoveries Kedorlaomer was an obscure reference in the «Bible «and there had been doubt as to whether he existed or not.

Archaeologists have unearthed proto - dynastic religious artefacts, such as carved figures from Badari burial grounds, going back 1000 years before the 1st Pharaoh.

Most archaeologists have deciphered history in 200 - year increments, but Finkelstein now can narrow construction, destruction and other events in antiquity to within as little as three decades, helping him refine the archaeological clock.

Horn interrogated various «acquaintances» of the murder victim such as archaeologists from the museum who had been looking after Ötzi for years, or experts from forensic medicine, radiology and anthropology.

Garroway's proposal appears likely, especially in light of evidence that more than 10,000 years earlier, people in France and Spain made similar spinning disks decorated with animals that appeared to move as the toy twirled (SN: 6/30/12, p. 12), says archaeologist Michelle Langley of Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia.

According to the team of University of Copenhagen archaeologists, who led the excavations, the discovery is further evidence that the region often seen as a «marginal zone» was capable of supporting a variety of resources, including a population of wild sheep, 14,500 years ago.

Archaeologists have unearthed a clutch of domesticated turkey eggs used as a ritual offering 1,500 years ago in Oaxaca, Mexico — some of the earliest evidence of turkey domestication.

«As a species we evolved the way we did as a result of living in very dynamic landscapes that selected for adaptability,» says archaeologist Geoff Bailey of the University of York in the UK, who along with Geoffrey King of the Paris Institute of Earth Physics in France has spent over 20 years amassing evidence for the theorAs a species we evolved the way we did as a result of living in very dynamic landscapes that selected for adaptability,» says archaeologist Geoff Bailey of the University of York in the UK, who along with Geoffrey King of the Paris Institute of Earth Physics in France has spent over 20 years amassing evidence for the theoras a result of living in very dynamic landscapes that selected for adaptability,» says archaeologist Geoff Bailey of the University of York in the UK, who along with Geoffrey King of the Paris Institute of Earth Physics in France has spent over 20 years amassing evidence for the theory.

Archaeologists are getting their first look at how a nearly year - long occupation by the group known as the Islamic State (IS) has affected the World Heritage Site of Palmyra in Syria.

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.

A team of Syrian and American archaeologists found more than 1,200 clay sling bullets as well as the burned remains of administrative buildings, bakeries, and homes that were demolished during a fierce attack 5,500 years ago.

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.

Archaeologists have assumed it developed gradually from the pastoral communities that preceded it, but physicist Mike Dee from the University of Oxford and his colleagues now suggest that the transition could have taken as little as 600 years.

Research by a University of Southampton archaeologist suggests that early humans, who lived thousands of years before Neanderthals, were able to work together in groups to hunt and slaughter animals as large as the prehistoric elephant.

Until recently, archaeologists believed that agriculture arose among people living along the banks of the rivers Tigris and Euphrates when, about 10 000 years ago, they suddenly learnt to sow and harvest cereal crops such as wheat and barley.

«Such was the impact of farming on our species that archaeologists have debated for more than 100 years how it originated and how it was spread into neighbouring regions such as Europe, North Africa and southern Asia,» said co-author Professor Stephen Shennan, UCL Institute of Archaeology.

Like most Iraqis, I thought the arrival of the Americans was very welcome, but when you work as an archaeologist for 30 years, love the field, and know each piece, and then you see all the destruction and looting — this was very hard.

At another site in South Africa called Blombos Cave archaeologist Christopher Henshilwood of the University of Bergen in Norway has recovered shell beads and engraved pieces of iron oxide as well as tools wrought from bone, dating back to 71,000 years ago.

Sarah Parcak, an archaeologist at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, who has spent the past 12 years working in Egypt, was speaking yesterday as the Al Jazeera TV news network showed live footage of running street battles around the Egyptian Museum at Tahrir Square in Cairo.

Last year, archaeologists in London believe they came upon one of these pits as excavations were underway at a former burial ground at Liverpool Street for a new rail link across the city, reported CNN.

A 20 year veteran at Gourmet wrote an article on bone broth as well: «For the origins of bone broth, I reached out to archaeologist and educator Daphne Derven.

This ancient grain was cultivated in East Asia as far back as 10,000 years ago, according to archaeologists.

Yet there is no doubt that «Prometheus,» set about a hundred years from now and starring Noomi Rapace («The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo») as an archaeologist leading a space mission to capital - T Trouble, is an «Alien» - derived life form.

Call Me by Your Name, which has already been pegged as an Oscar contender, tells the story of the verbally and physically charged relationship that develops between a 17 - year - old boy, Elio (Timothée Chalamet), and the older Oliver (Armie Hammer), the new assistant to Elio's archaeologist father (Michael Stuhlbarg).

But as Charles C. Mann now makes clear, archaeologists and anthropologists have spent the last thirty years proving these and many other long - held assumptions wrong.

Archaeologists believe that Colha may have been settled almost 1500 years before any other Maya site, and that chocolate was consumed at Colha as early as 1000 - 400 BC - making Colha one of the earliest Mayan settlements to process and eat chocolate.

Benjamin Clement, the archaeologist leading the dig, described the site as a «real little Pompeii», whose remains had been remarkably well preserved, and the discovery as «undoubtedly the most exceptional excavation of a Roman site in 40 or 50 years».

Cox worked as a field archaeologist and scientific illustrator for over 10 years in Oregon, experiences which profoundly influence his painting.

The museum serves as the hub of the City's archaeology program where visitors interact with archaeologists and volunteers working in the public laboratory; experience Alexandria's 13,000 year - old - history through exhibits, self - guided tours, and hands - on activities; and view the latest finds from current excavations.

The only reason for using calendar year as the parameter for this is simply that most archaeologists express their own priors about the past in terms of calendar year.