Sentence examples for archaeological events from inspiring English sources

And to really get involved in archaeology, you could take part in one of the 800 archaeological events being showcased around the country for the festival.

Because of the large number of violent volcanic explosions in Iceland, Sigurdur Thorarinsson, an Icelander who was the founder of the science of tephrochronology, was able to establish a detailed chronology of preoccupational and postoccupational geologic and archaeological events there.

The graphic summarizes the tempo of change in the occurrence of archaeological events using the model states generated by the Markov Chain Monte Carlo routine at the heart of Bayesian calibration software.

The gap between the earliest linguistically motivated dates for these language families and the archaeological events is the result of a linguistic founders effect, providing further evidence for demic diffusion as a source for their distribution.

In contrast, I have related the diffusion of Japonic and Koreanic with two specific archaeological events: the Mumun Yayoi diffusion through the peninsula into the archipelago from 1500 950 BCE and the diffusion of the Korean-style bronze dagger culture from 300 BCE.

21 March 1912: King Edward and Queen Alexandra visit the London Museum collection which includes historical exhibits from Roman times. 1 December 1922: The burial site of Egypt's boy-king Tutankhamun is discovered by Howard Carter - the most significant archaeological event of the twentieth century.

Even Lee and Hasegawa's date, first century BCE, leaves a 900-year lag between the archaeological event and the linguistic evidence for dispersal.

This paper presents a case study aimed at correlating archaeological 'events' (obtained from radiocarbon measurements and dendrochronology) from the site of Sutton Common with a radiocarbon-dated pollen sequence obtained from a palaeochannel deposit adjacent to the area of the main archaeological activity.

Paleoenvironmental reconstruction is proving to be a more reliable method of identifying small-scale human colonization events than archaeological data alone.

This discrepancy between the two records can in part be accounted for by the fact that ethnographic accounts tend to capture specific events, whereas archaeological records are palimpsests of events.

Different parameters affect the corrosion events in archaeological metals that may be related to the metallurgy of the artefact (e.g. composition and manufacture), or the characteristics of the burial soil (e.g. texture, pH, redox potential, soluble salts) [3 11].