(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.
Paleontology
Definition:
(n.) The science which treats of the ancient life of the earth, or of fossils which are the remains of such life.
Example Sentences:
(1) The molecular-biological, bioenergetic, and paleontological aspects of this new concept of cellular evolution are discussed.
(2) The combined data, considered in the light of sociological, historical and paleontological data, support the hypothesis that the Berbers are native to North Africa and their ancestors, the first modern man (Homo sapiens) of North Africa, were the founders of the European populations.
(3) A comparison of these coefficients with paleontological age of the group allows to conclude that evolutionary progress of animals was accompanied by the increase in skewness, variation and excess of specific lifespan distribution.
(4) This represents a major range extension of Miocene Hominoidea in Africa to latitude 20 degrees S. The holotype, a right mandibular corpus preserving the crowns of the P4-M3, partial crown and root of the P3, partial root of the canine, alveoli for all four incisors, and partial alveolus for the left canine, was found during paleontological explorations of karst-fill breccias in the Otavi region of northern Namibia.
(5) The technique described should prove useful in otopathological studies of other paleontological specimens.
(6) If the number of fixations of nucleotide codon substitutions per position of cistrons encoding cytochromes c are phyletically inferred (phylogeny based on a paleontological record) rather than phenetically inferred (based on paired comparisons of extant species' differences in the absence of a phylogeny) the distribution of these fixation data cannot be described adequately by a single Poisson distribution.
(7) David Attenborough: 'The area is one about which Britain can be very proud because it is the birthplace of paleontology.'
(8) By resolving several equivocal craniofacial morphocline polarities, these discoveries lay the foundation for a revised interpretation of the ancestral cranial morphology of Catarrhini more consistent with neontological and existing paleontological evidence.
(9) Thus, the immunological assay may prove useful to solve problems relevant to paleontology and paleopathology.
(10) The subjects of his correspondence are problems of the scientific investigations' organization as well as of true science, predominantly of paleontology and general morphology including the comparative anatomy.
(11) It was concluded from chromosomal and paleontological evidence that the two subspecies were derived from a common mainland ancestor and that the Japanese raccoon dogs is a relatively recent form.
(12) Recent paleontological collections at the middle Miocene locality of Maboko Island in Kenya, dated at 15-16 million years, have yielded numerous new specimens belonging to at least five species of fossil anthropoids.
(13) On the basis of morfological analysis of ecological, paleontological and zoogeographical data the main evolutionary trends to biting midges are established, the description of the hypothetical ancestor of the family is given and the apomorphy and plesiomorphy of the genera are analysed.
(14) glabrata (Say, 1818) from upper Pleistocene (or Holocene) based on paleontologic and stratigraphic data and in agreement with shell morphology.
(15) The results demonstrated that the -logRIP values of antisera against G6PDs from various test species neatly correlate with paleontologically estimated divergence times between rat and the test species.
(16) If the earlier paleontological interpretations are valid, then protein and mtDNA evolution must be somewhat decelerated in birds.
(17) This study opens for discussion some accepted interpretations related to posture, in human paleontology.
(18) Since opal phytoliths represent the inorganic remains of once-living plant cells, their documentation on the teeth of Gigantopithecus introduces a promising technique for the determination of diet in extinct mammalian species which should find numerous applications in the field of paleoanthropology as well as vertebrate paleontology.
(19) Therefore, early hominid adaptive scenarios based on a derived Homo-like manual functional morphology in A. robustus remain without a secure paleontological basis.
(20) An advantage of the present analysis is that it can be done without knowledge of paleontological divergence times and can be extended to bacterial proteins such as bacterial c-type cytochromes.