Sentence examples for archaeological technique from inspiring English sources

In 1953 she enrolled on a course in archaeological technique at the Institute of Archaeology at University College London, where she caught the eye of the professor of environmental archaeology, Frederick Zeuner, who persuaded her to study for a degree in zoology at Chelsea College of Science and Technology.

Piggott stated that the "importance of Wheeler's contribution to archaeological technique, enormous and far-reaching, lies in the fact that in the early 1920s he not only appreciated and understood what Pitt-Rivers had done, but saw that his work could be used as a basis for adaptation, development and improvement".

Local studies of medieval economics, often in considerable detail and fusing new archaeological techniques and rescue archaeology with historical sources, often ran counter to their broader interpretations of change and development.

Archaeological techniques he pioneered still form the model for today's fieldwork.

He used archaeological techniques to determine what shade of yellow to paint a Schindler house and had the window hardware for the Lautner house custom-welded.

"In their use of such archaeological techniques, the Wright brothers were as much in advance of their times as were their namesakes in aviation," Mr. McGrail wrote.

There are records of log coffins being found on other sites in the late 19th century, but this is the first time that any have been excavated using modern archaeological techniques.

"This was too big a target for conventional archaeological techniques," said Dr. Vassilis K. Karastathis, a member of the team that conducted the seismic survey and a geophysicist at the National Observatory of Athens in Greece.

The site is important because this is the first effort in Belgium that has married the fine detail of British World War I archival history to modern archaeological techniques.

"Plus, great advancements in archaeological techniques, such as geo-physics, aerial photos, infra-red and the like will help us identify and monitor lost villages that we know about – above and below ground – and also find new ones, which have not yet been discovered".

The significance of this method lay in its ability to penetrate the thick tropical forest canopy and thus to generate an accurate map in a fraction of the time it would take to map the surface by using traditional archaeological techniques.