(n.) The science or study of antiquities, esp. prehistoric antiquities, such as the remains of buildings or monuments of an early epoch, inscriptions, implements, and other relics, written manuscripts, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Typological and archaeological investigations indicate that the church building represents originally the hospital facility for the lay brothers of the monastery, which according to the chronicle of the monastery was built in the beginning of the 14th century.
(2) The pendulum swung even further with growing fossil, archaeological and genetic data in the 1990s.
(3) This is the first archaeological evidence of operative dentistry in ancient Israel, as well as the earliest date for this specific treatment in the world.
(4) A treasure trove of more than £1.7bn-worth of old masters paintings, Greek, Roman and Egyptian antiquities, ancient weapons and prehistoric archaeological items were allowed to be sold overseas in the year to May 2013, according to official statistics issued by the government .
(5) Sophie Jackson, of Museum of London Archaeology , said: "The waterlogged conditions left by the Walbrook stream have given us layer upon layer of Roman timber buildings, fences and yards, all beautifully preserved and containing amazing personal items, clothes and even documents – all of which will transform our understanding of the people of Roman London."
(6) Since more than a decade, the trace element content of archaeological human bones is analyzed by physical anthropologists.
(7) However, as reported here, direct measurements of food intake, as reflected in the stable carbon isotope ratios of archaeological human skeletons, reveal that this was not the case.
(8) Clinical and archaeological evidence for the frequent involvement of these teeth in lepromatous leprosy is reviewed.
(9) The Lapita Cultural Complex, radiometrically dated to between 3,600 and 2,500 B.P., is regarded on archaeological evidence as ancestral to modern Austronesian-speaking cultures of eastern Melanesia and Polynesia.
(10) She has been dubbed "Kingsmead's queen" after the quarry near Windsor where she was found, but experts from Wessex archaeology have more properly called her "a woman of importance".
(11) Activists have filmed tanks and rocket launchers being deployed in the archaeological area in Palmyra.
(12) Alfred, a student of the “father of American anthropology” Franz Boas , gathered and preserved information about native peoples and traditions in California, excavated archaeological sites in Mexico and Peru, and some years before his daughter’s birth had briefly practised as a psychoanalyst.
(13) "The density of the archaeology, the scale of the buildings and the skill that was used to construct them are simply phenomenal.
(14) West Mercia police contacted experts at Worcestershire Archaeology , who sent the skull to be radiocarbon dated.
(15) '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.
(16) At their furthest edges, the lochs' peaty brown water laps against fields and hills that form a natural amphitheatre; a landscape peppered with giant rings of stone, chambered cairns, ancient villages and other archaeological riches.
(17) Also, the SYRIZA opposition party is about to hold a rally outside the Archaeological Museum.
(18) Iran, which was a Zoroastrian country before Islam arrived, is home to some of the world’s most magnificent historical and archaeological sites with ancient ruins, glittering mosques and spectacular landscapes.
(19) Free entrance to citizens of the EU who are under 18 or over 65 Villa Celimontana and Parco del Celio on the Celio Hill Photograph: Alamy The Celio hill – up above the Colosseum and a good place to escape to if you are flagging from the rigours of visiting the archaeological heart of the city – boasts numerous Roman remains, several very early churches and two interlinked parks.
(20) "Some people built tombs to steal archaeology, definitely," said 28-year-old Walid Ibrahim, picnicking on the boundary between the old and new cemeteries.
Chronology
Definition:
(n.) The science which treats of measuring time by regular divisions or periods, and which assigns to events or transactions their proper dates.
Example Sentences:
(1) Under these conditions the meiotic prophase takes place and proceeds to the dictyate phase, obeying a somewhat delayed chronology in comparison with controls in vivo.
(2) In contrast, idiopathic GH deficient girls have an onset of puberty and PHV nearer to a normal chronological age and at an early bone age.
(3) There was no correlation between serum LH and chronological or bone age in this age group, which suggests that the correlation found is not due to age-related parallel phenomena.
(4) We report the treatment of 44 boys with constitutional delay of growth and puberty (CDGP) at a mean chronological age of 14.3 years (range, 12.4-17.1) and bone age of 12.1 years (range, 9.1-15.0).
(5) Although chronologic age may not be a good predictor of pregnancy outcome, adolescents remain a high-risk group due to factors which are more common among them such as biologic immaturity, inadequate prenatal care, poverty, minority status, and low prepregnancy weight, and because factors associated with an early adolescent pregnancy, such as low gynecologic age, may continue to influence the outcome of subsequent pregnancies.
(6) The difference in the timing of the change in FSH and LH concentrations was related not only to chronological age but also to the number of years before the menopause.
(7) Weighed amounts of lyophilized venom from each snake were compared chronologically for variation in isoelectric focusing patterns, using natural and immobilized gradients.
(8) It’s around this point in the film’s chronology that Rodman makes his now infamous appearance on CNN , where he rejected calls to assist in the release of American prisoner Kenneth Bae and shouted at interviewer Chris Cuomo.
(9) However, a review of the literature suggests that chronological age alone does not account for increased toxicity in the elderly.
(10) A chronology of the disaster, involving two helicopter crashes which left 11 dead, is presented.
(11) A chronological subdivision of the swallowing act is needed for a step-by-step analysis.
(12) Sound velocities, breaking strengths calculated from velocities adjusted for estimated soft tissue cover, measured bone mediolateral diameters and cannon diameters minus estimated soft tissue increased as quadratic functions of chronologic age (r greater than .840; P less than .0001).
(13) Chronological observation also showed the change of SLex expression according to the histological change.
(14) Further considerations concern the adaptation of measurements at ad hoc times to values for full, half, and quarterly years of chronological age.
(15) 5(1)-Nucleotidase was found to decrease with increase in the chronological age of the chicks.
(16) It was also a better predictor of viability than chronological age.
(17) A total of 48 children were tested, with eight selected from each chronological age group from four through nine years.
(18) At a time when the intrauterine diagnosis of hydrocephalus is commonplace and pioneering efforts of antenatal therapy are evolving, review of the chronology of treatment of this disorder becomes pertinent.
(19) The chronologic and anatomic expressions of Thy-1 are compatible with a role of Thy-1 in the generation and maintenance of synapses.
(20) His instinct that there was something there in the association beyond simple chronology is rewarded in the details.