Archaeologists say the artifact is a 1st century Middle Eastern stone vessel, possibly from Antioch, Syria ( now Turkey ); its history can be traced to the 11th century, and it now rests atop an ornate stem and base, made in the Medieval era of alabaster, gold, and gemstones.

Archaeologists in particular use the term to denote a record of material remains that is suspected of having formed during an extended period but that cannot be resolved in such a way that temporally discrete traces can be recognized as such.

Archaeologists can distinguish three periods of ancient Scythian archaeological remains:

Archaeologists usually undertake the task so that they can better understand how prehistoric stone tools were made.

Archaeologists can encounter any number of problems during excavation which can lead to misinterpretation of the data, especially in Postclassic Maya sites where a lack of standardization of the ceramics and other factors makes reliable dating more difficult.

Archaeologists have found the stupa but no spring or lake can be identified.

Young people up to the age of 16 can join the Young Archaeologists ' Club.

Archaeologists can obtain significant additional data and information using these techniques, and archaeometry has the potential to alter the understanding of the past.

Archaeologists can then infer that ancient societies used the same techniques as their modern counterparts given a similar set of environmental circumstances.

Archaeologists can only speculate as to why this was done to some of the skulls.

Archaeologists typically use similarities in material culture — from house types to styles of pottery — to reconstruct communities in the past.

Archaeologists and historical scholars use a variety of ways to organize and interpret the available iconographic and textual information.

Archaeologists use the term " Gulf of Georgia Culture Area " to refer to the San Juan and Gulf Islands, the whole of which shows many archaeological commonalities.

Archaeologists use the terms Khabur ware and Nuzi ware for two types of wheel-made pottery used by the Hurrians.

Archaeologists Alasdair Whittle and Michael Wysocki note that this period of occupation may be " significant ", with respect to Parc Cwm long cairn, as it is " broadly contemporary with the secondary use of the tomb ".

Archaeologists also discovered the public latrinas, organized for collective use as a series of seats that allow us to imagine today that the function was also a social moment.

* Archaeologists use a remote-controlled robot to access a hitherto sealed chamber within the Great Pyramid of Giza: the robot drilled a hole in a long-sealed door and poked a fiber-optic camera through.

Archaeologists working in Tikal during the 20th century refurbished one of these ancient reservoirs to store water for their own use.

Archaeologists use the word terrazzo to describe the floors of early neolithic buildings ( PPN A and B, ca.

Archaeologists use theoretical guidelines derived from anthropology, ethnology, analogy, and ethnohistory to the concept of what defines a state-level society.

Archaeologists use the term " Thraco-Agathyrsian " to designate these characteristics, owing to the evident Thracian elements.

British Archaeologists refine the general archaeological use of avenue to denote a long, parallel-sided strip of land, measuring up to about 30m in width, open at either end and with edges marked by stone or timber alignments and / or a low earth bank and ditch.

Archaeologists have concluded that the symmetrical, geometric, designs of garden-scapes adopted by colonists in the mid eighteenth to nineteenth centuries made use of "... converging and diverging lines of sight to manipulate the relationship between distance and focal point ", making objects appear larger or further away than they really were.

Archaeologists use petrography to identify mineral components in pottery.

Archaeologists, in particular, use phases of visual development to try to understand the spread of humans and their cultures across contiguous landscapes as well as over larger areas.

Archaeologists use a variety of tools in survey, including GIS, GPS, remote sensing, geophysical survey and aerial photography.

Archaeologists use changes in ceramic styles to determine timelines for sites and entire regions.

Archaeologists use tree-ring dating ( dendrochronology ) to determine the age of old pieces of wood.

Forensic Archaeologists are employed to locate, excavate and record buried remains, the variety of such targets is large and each case is unique in its requirements ( hence the need to use an experienced professional forensic archaeologist ).

Archaeologists have demonstrated the use of the black drink among Native American groups stretching back far into antiquity, possibly dating to Late Archaic times.

Archaeologists increasingly use paleopathology as an important main tool for understanding the lives of ancient peoples.

Archaeologists began to specialize in zooarchaeology, and their numbers increased from there on.

Like the other social scientists, the New Archaeologists or processualists wanted to utilize scientific methodology in their work.

Several other archaeologists at Chicago shared Binford's ideas, a group their critics began calling the " New Archaeologists ".

Archaeologists distinguish their research from pseudoarchaeology by pointing to differences in research methodology, including recursive methods, falsifiable theories, peer review, and a generally systematic approach to collecting data.

Archaeologists often classify tumuli according to their location, form, and date of construction.

Archaeologists have found a great quantity of pottery from the Mycenaean age, of widely diverse styles — stirrup jars, pitchers, kraters, chalices sometimes called " champagne coupes " after their shape, etc.

Archaeologists have come to discover numerous mummified ancient individuals with the appearance of metal bands wrapped around their teeth.

Archaeologists believe the Toltecs had pushed the Totonacs out of their settlements on the eastern slopes of the Sierra Madre Oriental and down to the coast.

Archaeologists study the material culture of past societies, and study past societies through their material culture remains.

Archaeologists speculate that Quelepa was settled by Lenca speakers from Honduras, from which population pressure may have necessitated their migrations.

Archaeologists were able to reconstruct two sides of the pyramid in their entirety.

Archaeologists in year 1951 ( 447 of the Humanist Era ) disinter an abnormally heavy skull, discover the four indestructible sheets of metal surgically embedded into it by a science clearly more advanced than their own, and follow the indications to recover the three time travelers ’ time capsule which will forewarn them of the possible futures.