Sentence examples for layers of settlement from inspiring English sources

In his single-minded drive to discover Homer's Troy, he damaged and destroyed other layers of settlement.

Like much of Peru's capital city, the zoo is built atop layers of settlements that stretch back millennia.

But when excavating the earliest layers of human settlements, archaeologists to their surprise found a thick layer of bones of a meiolanid tortoise (an extinct chelonian sister lineage to modern tortoises, turtles and terrapins) with a shell length of more than 1 m (White et al. 2010).

The Hisarlik site contains layer upon layer of ancient settlement, from the first circa 3000 BC to the last around 500 BC.

With every easy crank of the pedals, any bare-bones rental bike can hold its steady orbit 40 feet above Lucca's remarkable center — a medieval city built atop layers of Etruscan and Roman settlements, and often overlooked by travelers entranced by nearby Tuscan hill towns to the south.

Figure 9 Overlaying of the three GIS layers (energy potential, settlement development, and settlement development using micro-generators).

The rationale for selecting these stages is that they span key developmental events including the establishment of tissue layers and body axes at gastrulation, the transduction of settlement cues, settlement and metamorphosis, and the initiation of calcification and uptake of symbionts.

In order to increase the speed of drying, the top clear layer was discarded and replaced with ethanol after about an hour of settlement.

"The Lower East Side was a place of settlement.

Iterative optimisation of settlement site and settlement design.

The ground below looks unreal, like a topographical map – globular layers of browns on greens on blues, and not a settlement in sight.