How to Use archaeology in a Sentence
archaeology
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Take a closer look at a find that has stunned the archaeology world.
— Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2024 -
Instead, the group got in-the-field lessons about the colliers, their habits and works, and some of the technology and tools of the archaeology trade.
— Steve Smith, courant.com, 26 Aug. 2019 -
The ships, which were among the most sought-after prizes in marine archaeology, are the subject of multiple songs, poems and novels.
— Fox News, 29 Aug. 2019 -
The book also has a strange, beguiling tone, somewhere between an engagé documentary and an archaeology of taste.
— Paul Grimstad, The New Yorker, 16 July 2019 -
That’s mostly because archaeology in the region has been more focused on much later periods of human history.
— Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 10 July 2019 -
Whitehead read newspaper accounts three years later about archaeology students who are trying to identify remains buried there.
— San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Sep. 2019 -
The result has been an explosion of new information that is transforming archaeology.
— Andrew Curry, National Geographic, 12 July 2019 -
By combining archaeology with DNA data on family ties, the new study sharpened the picture.
— Ann Gibbons, Science | AAAS, 10 Oct. 2019 -
The search picked back up in 1974, when an archaeology group looked for parts of the plane at the site.
— Charmaine Patterson, Peoplemag, 16 Mar. 2023 -
The raid on the British Institute shook the world of archaeology.
— Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Aug. 2021 -
Back on earth, just underneath the surface, the La Brea tar pits are the world’s top Ice Age archaeology site.
— Chadd Scott, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024 -
One of the amazing things about Orkney is its archaeology.
— Jeanne Bouza Rose, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2021 -
Here are three of our most eye-catching archaeology stories from the past week.
— Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 3 May 2024 -
Here are three of our most eye-catching archaeology stories from the past week.
— Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 7 June 2024 -
Here are three of our most eye-catching archaeology stories from the past week.
— Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 22 Apr. 2024 -
Here are three of our most eye-catching archaeology stories from the past week.
— Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 10 Apr. 2024 -
You're known for bringing cutting-edge tools such as Lidar to the field of archaeology.
— Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 22 Nov. 2023 -
The disturbance has been termed grave robbery and lamented as a loss for archaeology in the removal of hoped-for finds and data.
— Alison Klevnäs, Discover Magazine, 18 Feb. 2022 -
The grounds will also serve as a field school for archaeology and education hub and tour site.
— Brian Smale, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Apr. 2021 -
In the summer of 1983 in Italy, teenager Elio falls hard for the older man helping his dad with archaeology research.
— Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 22 Apr. 2023 -
If there were a finder’s fee for incredible archaeology, a lot of it would be paid to mud.
— Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 23 Sep. 2020 -
David Givens, the director of archaeology at Jamestown Preservation, helped conduct the scan of the granite pedestal to find the time capsule.
— Washington Post, 14 July 2021 -
This is the Nebra sky disk, and nothing else like it has been found in European archaeology.
— New York Times, 19 Jan. 2021 -
The bloodshed in a tourist town — famous for its archaeology and winter villas — comes amid the worst violence in the West Bank in nearly two decades.
— Fatima Abdul Karim, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2023 -
Scholars are turning to archaeology for a fuller picture of the Buddha’s life and exploring sites sacred to the faith.
— National Geographic, 1 Oct. 2020 -
The archaeology department will keep the shipwreck open to the public until the water level rises again and takes the ferry with it.
— Maham Javaid, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2022 -
North Carolina Monroe: An item found in the state in 1973 may be thousands of years old, according to the state’s office of archaeology.
— USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2019 -
Some still contain the archaeology of ancient Puebloan rock structures or steps cut into the sandstone that once served as ladders.
— Pete McBride, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Sep. 2022 -
On a train bound for the Arctic Circle, a Finnish archaeology student meets a Russian miner.
— Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 14 Dec. 2022 -
At the time, Gast was an undergraduate student studying classical archaeology and ancient history at the University of Oxford.
— Ashley Strickland, CNN, 25 Sep. 2024
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