(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.
Prehistory
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Example Sentences:
(1) The estimation obtained for theta permit us to assert that the model describes the phenomenon of "socio-cultural selection" in prehistory.
(2) Much of the earlier work on the prehistory of Sudanese Nubia has emphasized discontinuity between early Nubian populations.
(3) The first phase, which belongs to the prehistory of Phlebology, includes two notable facts: the start of ambulatory compression in London around 1800, and the interest that the French school immediately showed in this discovery.
(4) A t some point in remote prehistory, roughly 12,000 years ago, a group of men and women – no more than half a dozen, scientists believe – crawled into the labyrinth of Rouffignac cavern in the Dordogne's Vézère valley.
(5) An ambitious project to showcase the prehistory of the south coast of England, famous for its marine fossils from ammonites to giant sea reptiles, has attracted support from David Attenborough and Eden Project founder Tim Smit.
(6) According to the model, the shape of the growth curves, the kinetics of substrate consumption and changes of intermediate concentration depend on culture prehistory and the nature of the intermediate regulatory function.
(7) to 500 A.D.) of Central California Prehistory is described in light of an extensive clinical literature.
(8) Two other hypotheses regarding the causes of the framentation have been raised: a substantial portion of the breakage in the Krapina collection is attributable to excavation damage; and the rest of the breakage is attributable to sedimentary pressure and to natural rock falls that occurred during the site's prehistory.
(9) The prehistory of cyclical development of corpus luteum goes back to early follicular phase.
(10) The second time you visit, without this ready-made exhilaration, you are more conscious of what the building contributes to its prehistory.
(11) "As with so many 'new trends', this one has a fairly distinguished prehistory," explains essayist and author Geoff Dyer .
(12) Unique aspects of the prehistory and current distribution of the Polynesian rat (Rattus exulans Peale) have been applied to the problem of determining the biogeographical origin of its parasites as found on 'exulans only' islands of New Zealand.
(13) To gain an understanding of helminth parasitism in prehistory on the Colorado Plateau of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah, 319 coprolites from 5 archaeological sites were analyzed.
(14) Hysteresis of the stretch reflex led to uncertainty of the equilibrium value of the muscle length and the equilibrium length depended on the movement prehistory.
(15) More generally, with the availability of teeth from genetically homogeneous populations, studies of enamel hypoplasias in prehistory should provide a useful complement to research on this condition in contemporary peoples.
(16) The value of works of art lost to Britain Paintings, foreign £489m Paintings, British, modern £463m Drawings, prints, watercolours £187m Manuscripts, documents and archives £119m Oriental furniture, porcelain and works of art £59m Transport £58m Silver, metalwork and jewellery £49m Sculpture £48m Musical instruments £23m Paintings, portraits of British persons £21m Oriental antiquities £21m Furniture and woodwork £19m Middle East antiquities £19m Prehistory & Europe £18m Photographs £13m Books, maps etc £11m Egyptian antiquities £11m Tapestries, carpets etc £10m Pottery £5m Clocks and watches £5m Coins and medals £5m Scientific and mechanical material £2m Drawings: architechtural, engineering and scientific £2m
(17) Their systematic campaign seeks to take us back into prehistory, but they will not succeed.” The archaeologist and scholar, who held a diploma in history and education from the University of Damascus, published many books and scientific texts.
(18) Although Nei's standard genetic distance analysis demonstrates genetic similarity at the Gm and Km loci, the heterogeneity that does exist is consistent both with what is known about the prehistory of Native Americans and traditional cultural categories.
(19) If so, other oncogenes should be equally transposable to the "Ig hot spots" during the long series of cell divisions in the preneoplastic target cell population that characterizes the prehistory of both BL and MPC.
(20) Egyptian artefacts were, for Freud, links to the prehistory of the Jewish people; they also represent an era when maternal deities found their proper place in man's pantheon--an echo of Freud's prehistoric past.