Archaeologists have determined that there was a distinct decrease in the amount of annual precipitation between AD 1276 and 1299, a period of time that is now referred to as the " Great Drought ".

Archaeologists have demonstrated that civilization in Syria was one of the most ancient on earth.

Archaeologists have found four, or possibly five, large Mesolithic postholes ( one may have been a natural tree throw ), which date to around 8000 BC, beneath the nearby modern tourist car-park.

Archaeologists have extrapolated the Pazyryk culture from these finds: five large burial mounds and several smaller ones between 1925 and 1949, one opened in 1947 by Russian archaeologist Sergei Rudenko.

Archaeologists discovered one such boat, nicknamed the Jesus Boat, in 1986.

Archaeologists believe that these sites were occupied by the Tano with no more than a few thousand at one time.

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

Archaeologists have unearthed one terracotta doll with a detachable head capable of manipulation by a string dating to 2500 BC.

Archaeologists generally agree that the builders probably spoke one of the Shona languages, based upon evidence of pottery, oral traditions and anthropology.

Archaeologists Oliver Creighton and Robert Higham have described Bodiam as one of the best examples of landscaping to emphasise a castle.

Archaeologists have found various artifacts including silver female earrings and bronze belt-buckles in Bronze Age tumuli in Pëllumbas, one of the villages of Berat.

Archaeologists classify it as a chambered long barrow and one of the Severn-Cotswold tombs.

Archaeologists consider the site to be one of the earliest examples of the Peiligang culture.

Archaeologists have found a number of silver plates in this cave that are embellished with animal or monster figures and one presents even a Pahlavi inscription.

Archaeologists have found a number of silver plates in this cave that are embellished with animal or monster figures and one presents even a Pahlavi inscription.

Archaeologists treat stone rows as discrete features however and alignment refers to the stones being lined up with one another rather than anything else.

Archaeologists have excavated three engraved shoulder guards from the gladiator barracks at Pompeii: one is engraved with illustrations of an anchor, a crab, and a dolphin ; another with cupids and the head of Hercules ; and a third with weapons and the inscription RET / SECUND (" retiarius, second rank ").

Archaeologists define a chopper as a pebble tool with an irregular cutting edge formed through the removal of flakes from one side of a stone.

Archaeologists examine these material remains in order to deduce patterns of past human behavior and cultural practices.

Archaeologists still do not know who erected these dolmens, which makes it difficult to know why they did it.

Archaeologists and historians attempting to trace the origins of these villagers have found it impossible to identify any distinctive features that could define them as specifically Israelite – collared-rim jars and four-room houses have been identified outside the highlands and thus cannot be used to distinguish Israelite sites, and while the pottery of the highland villages is far more limited than that of lowland Canaanite sites, it develops typologically out of Canaanite pottery that came before.

Archaeologists and historians see more continuity than discontinuity between these highland settlements and the preceding Late Bronze Canaanite culture ; certain features such as ceramic repertoire and agrarian settlement plans have been said to be distinctives of highland sites, and collar-rimmed jars and four-roomed houses have been said to be intrinsically " Israelite ," but have also been said to belong to a commonly shared culture throughout Iron I Canaan.

Archaeologists are able to calculate these estimates of size by employing a series of assumptions about the distance between benches, the lateral distance between rowers, and a maximum draft of the vessel.

Archaeologists propose that these changes were triggered by tectonic upheavals or subsidence, or the silting up of rivers due to agricultural practices.

Archaeologists called these people the Mississippians of the Mississippian culture ; they were Mound Builders.

Archaeologists and historians of today believe that these Scandinavian settlements in the Slavic lands formed the names of the countries Russia and Belarus.

" Archaeologists know of five milestones or route-markers that have been found in Cornwall and which would have been erected in the Romano-British period to chart the roads, and two of these have been found in the vicinity of Tintagel, indicating the likelihood that a road passed through the locality.

Archaeologists interpret these grooves as traces of an unknown industrial process in the High Middle Ages. There are approximately 3700 grinding grooves, of which about 750 occur in the solid limestone outcrop and the rest in other rock formations.

Archaeologists have found stages of commonality between types of ceramics, and these phases coincide with the Mayan timeline.

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

Archaeologists are desperate to work in this province as wars and the Taliban have destroyed many of these artifacts.

Archaeologists have loosely designated these cultures by pottery style.

Archaeologists have described the makers of Peterborough ware as the Peterborough culture, but the term has fallen out of favour as further discoveries have cast doubt on the idea that a single unified society produced these artefacts.

Archaeologists have differentiated these Early Neolithic tombs into a variety of different architectural styles, which were typically associated with specific regions within the British Isles.

Archaeologists studying the aforementioned, and other colonial sites throughout the United States, have excavated the gardens of wealthy men and women in order to reconstruct and ascertain the function of these gardens in colonial life.

Archaeologists do not agree on whether the widespread presence of these artifacts indicates the proliferation of a single people, or the adoption of a superior technology by diverse population groups.

Archaeologists have differentiated these Early Neolithic tombs into a variety of different architectural styles, which were typically associated with specific regions within the British Isles.

Archaeologists have found Viking sculptures at Gainford and some examples of these may be seen on display at Durham Cathedral.

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

Archaeologists divide the pre-European American contact period of the region into three cultural phases.

Archaeologists, historians, historic architects, and others have been employed in vast numbers in the field of cultural resource management ( CRM ).

Archaeologists identified various cultural traits of these peoples, including styles of art, and traced the culture to the earlier Hallstatt culture and La Tène culture.

Archaeologists have since used the sequence, with later variations, to assign approximate dates to dozens of sites throughout the Southwest and to determine cultural ties and differences among them.