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A. To indicate how useful detectors are in restoring damaged sites B. To explain why muon detectors were rarely used in the past C. To describe a benefit of using muon detectors in archaeological study D. To E. xplain an accident with a muon detector during a pyramid exploration 相关知识...
Pateman thinks not. Rising sea levels destroyed many eighth- and ninth-century sites, but others remain. “There are more than 850 caves in the Lucayan Archipelago, running miles underground. And in some of them lie precious archaeology,” Pateman says. “TakeStargate Blue...
This is the satellite photo of the area from 2010. Here's the same location in 2013. The dark spots are looting pits. Looting spiked after the Arab Spring in 2011 as tourism plummeted and many of the sites were left unprotected. The area was ravaged and after Parcak shared the photos wi...
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Other than Hubei's Yunmeng county, the skull-hoof burial tradition has also been found in other provinces like North China's Hebei Province and Central China's Henan and Hubei provinces. "Those scattered archaeological sites can help us picture a fuller image about how ancient Chinese ethnic cu...
The observation that almost no archaeological sites are found on landslide susceptible hillslopes might indicate that in prehistorical and historical times humans were more familiar with local environmental risks and therefore avoided unstable hillslopes. Comparison of topographic maps (i.e. 1777-2001),...
Two- and three-dimensional maps are helpful tools in planning excavations, illustrating how sites look, and presenting the results of archaeological research. 出自-2014年考研阅读原文 The resulting settlement maps show how the distribution and density of the rural population around the city changed dram...
At Must Farm, near the town of Peterborough in the UK, an archaeological team has found a level of preservation on par with Pompeii. It’s rare to find organic materials at ancient sites, because they decompose with exposure to air and water. However, at this site, they’ve identified ...
We can only speculate about the purposes of the cave paintings found at Lascaux and other sites. They may have been part of religious rituals, simple representations of life as the cave dwellers experienced it, or superstitious homages created in hopes of a successful hunt. One thing is clear...