(1) As any archaeologist will tell you, trying to understand what was going through the minds of the people who built these prehistoric monuments is a difficult task,” said Dr Marek Kukula, public astronomer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich.
(2) They belong to the people who built Choquequirao, one of the most remote Inca settlements in the Andes, and were stashed here by the archaeologists who, over the past 20 years, have been slowly freeing the ruins from the cloud forest.
(3) Archaeologists still argue about what it originally held, but visitors can now peer inside and see gleaming in the darkness a statue of Taharqa, loaned by Southampton museums.
(4) Stephen Fisher, one of the archaeologists recording the site, says digging the trenches would also have been training for the men, who would soon have to do it for real, and the little slit trenches scattered across the site, just big enough for one man to cower in, might represent their first efforts.
(5) In front of the main horse, archaeologists uncovered the body of a young woman.
(6) Scores of archaeologists working in a waterlogged trench through the wettest summer and coldest winter in living memory have recovered more than 10,000 objects from Roman London , including writing tablets, amber, a well with ritual deposits of pewter, coins and cow skulls, thousands of pieces of pottery, a unique piece of padded and stitched leather – and the largest collection of lucky charms in the shape of phalluses ever found on a single site.
(7) This is the temple complex of the Ness of Brodgar, and its size, complexity and sophistication have left archaeologists desperately struggling to find superlatives to describe the wonders they found there.
(8) 'Archaeology on steroids': huge ritual arena discovered near Stonehenge Read more Archaeologists have found evidence that a big tree fell over and its base provided a wall which was then lined with flint.
(9) The archaeologists had to wear slippers to preserve the site which, at the bottom of a two-metre trench, picked up much damp.
(10) The archaeologist and television presenter Tony Pollard wrote : "#twittersilence?
(11) Most Acheulian stone tools have been recovered from sites alongside fossilised bones of Homo erectus , leading many archaeologists to believe our ancestors developed the technology as an improvement on the Oldowan toolmaking skills they inherited.
(12) Similarly, no independent archaeologists have been inside it since the war began.
(13) The Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains (ICLVR), a body established by a treaty between the Irish and British governments, continues to search for the remains of seven of the victims, drawing upon information supplied by the IRA through intermediaries, often priests, and with the assistance of forensic archaeologists from the University of Bradford.
(14) A further plea for them to act comes from eminent British archaeologists in a letter to the Guardian today.
(15) The tablet, inscribed with an exhortation to honor King Tukulti-Ninurta I, was excavated a century ago by German archaeologists from the Ishtar Temple in what's now northern Iraq.
(16) In an article for the Guardian , Syria’s director of antiquities, Maamoun Abdelkarim, said a team of archaeologists would go to Palmyra in the coming days to assess the damage to its monuments, and pledged to rebuild the destroyed temples and arch.
(17) That is the stark situation described by marine archaeologist Sean Kingsley, who says fishing boats that use heavyweight bottom-trawling and shellfish-dredging equipment are annihilating precious artefacts and sunken ships.
(18) Archaeologists and indigenous groups have complained that this momentous moment is being misinterpreted, trivilialised and commercialised.
(19) Arthur MacGregor, archaeologist and recently retired curator of the Ashmolean museum in Oxford, has tried to disentangle the competing claims.
(20) The archaeologists, mainly students led by WF Grimes, the director of the Museum of London, won an extension and major finds followed, including more splendid carvings.
Paleontologist
Definition:
(n.) One versed in paleontology.
Example Sentences:
(1) It’s the biggest dinosaur that has ever been found with wings,” said Steve Brusatte , a paleontologist at Edinburgh University.
(2) The placement of fossils would help to further interpret the sequence of morphological events and innovations associated with the origin of tetrapods but appears to be problematic because the quality of fossils is not always high enough, and differences among paleontologists in the interpretation of the fossils have stood in the way of a consensus opinion for the branching order among lobefinned fishes.
(3) Zhou came from a long line of landowners and scholars; his father, a renowned paleontologist, had spent time in America and Taiwan.
(4) Philosopher, anatomist, paleontologist, botanist, educator, and natural scientist in the purest sense of the work, Leidy's interest in the humanities and in all aspects of nature lent itself to his exact descriptions of new species and unchartered anatomic realms.
(5) On what turned out to be the last morning of his life, Ben told me, quite out of the blue, " I still want to be an architect, Mama, but I also want to be a paleontologist, because that's what Nate is going to be and I want to do everything Nate does."
(6) Now the paper has followed up their story by saying they have discovered the skull was provided to auctioneers IM Chait by Eric Prokopi, a "commercial paleontologist" who recently pleaded guilty to conspiring to import illegally obtained fossils from Mongolia .
(7) Problems regarding the homologies of different entotympanics, largely ignored by paleontologists and systematists, reduce or negate their taxonomic valency for all but closely related groups.
(8) Since the discovery of the coelacanth, Latimeria chalumnae, more than 50 years ago, paleontologists and comparative morphologists have debated whether coelacanths or lungfishes, two groups of lobe-finned fishes, are the closest living relatives of land vertebrates (Tetrapoda).