Art historian Richard Poss took a more flexible approach, maintaining that the astronomical rock art of the North American Southwest should be read employing " the hermeneutic traditions of western art history and art criticism " Astronomers, however, raise different questions, seeking to provide their students with identifiable precursors of their discipline, and are especially concerned with the important question of how to confirm that specific sites are, indeed, intentionally astronomical.

A number of important historical sites, artifacts and documents exist which shed light on early board games.

A collection of immense importance, the holdings of Assyrian, Babylonian and Sumerian antiquities are among the most comprehensive in the world with entire suites of rooms panelled in alabaster bas-reliefs from highly important sites between the rivers Euphrates and Tigris and include the biblical cities of Nimrud, Nineveh and Khorsabad.

Guatemala City offers all the modern amenities along with important historic sites that a world class city can be expected to have ranging from an IMAX Theater to the Ícaro film festival ( Festival Ícaro ) featuring films produced in Guatemala and Central America.

U-2 missions systematically photographed military installations and other important sites.

* Pictures of Boğazköy, one of a group of important sites

* Pictures of Yazılıkaya, one of a group of important sites

The most important British ports were London and Richborough, whilst the continental ports most heavily engaged in trade with Britain were Boulogne and the sites of Domburg and Colijnsplaat at the mouth of the river Scheldt.

Lismore in the territory of the Cenél Loairn, was sufficiently important for the death of its abbots to be recorded with some frequency and many smaller sites, such as on Eigg, Hinba and Tiree, are known from the annals.

He spent several weeks visiting sites in the area then headed inland to Cairo, the capital of the Mamluk Sultanate and even at that time an important large city.

Introns contain several short sequences that are important for efficient splicing, such as acceptor and donor sites at either end of the intron as well as a branch point site, which are required for proper splicing by the spliceosome.

The remains of such catastrophes exist all over the world, and sites such as Alexandria and Port Royal now form important archaeological sites.

Mehrgarh ( Brahui: Mehrgaŕh, ), one of the most important Neolithic ( 7000 BCE to c. 2500 BCE ) sites in archaeology, lies on the " Kachi plain " of now Balochistan, Pakistan.

The Law of Dynamic Polarization has important exceptions ; dendrites can serve as synaptic output sites of neurons and axons can receive synaptic inputs.

* A Nature Conservation Review, a 1977 publication by Derek Ratcliffe, listing important sites for nature conservation in Great Britain

Summertime brings visitors drawn by its natural beauty and wildlife, including Rousay's seals and otters, and by its archaeological remains, especially the cluster of important sites connected by a footpath near the western shore.

With the advent of industrialization, important new uses for land emerge, as sites for factories, warehouses, offices, and urban agglomerations.

In February 1987 she co-founded, with Elaine Eason Steele, the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development, an institute that runs the " Pathways to Freedom " bus tours which introduce young people to important civil rights and Underground Railroad sites throughout the country.

Novo Mesto in Lower Carniola, one of the most important archeological sites of the Hallstatt culture, has been nicknamed the " City of Situlas " after numerous situlas found in the area.

There are numerous areas set aside to protect the local fauna and flora, including a number of important seabird nesting sites.

One of Tanzania's most important archeological sites is Engaruka in the Great Rift Valley which includes an irrigation and cultivation system.

One of Tanzania's most important archeological sites is Engaruka in the Great Rift Valley which includes an irrigation and cultivation system.

Just upstream from the Kalambo Falls, which is in Zambia, there is one of the most important archaeological sites in Africa.

The two most important sites were Nakorn Pathom and Uthong ( in the present Suphanburi Province ).

Russell Cave is an important archaeological site that was excavated in 1956 by the Smithsonian Institution and the National Geographic Society.

Stone excavated here was used to build important structures across the country, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

As part of this remedial work English Heritage excavated two further small trenches and made the important discovery of an antler fragment, the first from a secure archaeological context at the site.

The most important finding however is an uncompleted city ( Waldgirmes Forum ), which has been excavated since 1993.

He held the first chair of Egyptology in the United Kingdom, and excavated many of the most important archaeological sites in Egypt.

Because Dunadd is mentioned in early sources, and is readily identifiable, it has been excavated on several occasions ( 1904-05, 1929, 1980 ) and has one of the most important ensembles of finds from any early medieval site in Scotland.

The quality of provenance of an important work of art can make a considerable difference to its selling price in the market ; this is affected by the degree of certainty of the provenance, the status of past owners as collectors, and in many cases by the strength of evidence that an object has not been illegally excavated or exported from another country.

Many finds support the theory that both castle-hill and area of the town ( on an important river-crossing ) formed an important seat of local Hallstatt Culture Prince, while richly furnished mounds ( barrows ) were excavated on eastern suburbs of the city.

In use, the shield was inched forward as the working face was excavated, while behind it a permanent tunnel lining of cast iron segments was fitted into place, itself an important innovation.

He had a large collection of antique sculpture, the Arundel Marbles mostly Roman, but including some he had excavated in the Greek world, which was then the most important in England, and was later bequeathed to Oxford University.

Very important for the archaeological research are considered the rich villas that were excavated in the aristocratic suburb of the city located in the eastern part of the north hill since there was found some of the earliest floor mosaics in Greek art.

* The Empress's Seal, a jade seal from the Western Han Dynasty, excavated near the tomb of Emperor Gao Zu, the first emperor of the Han Dynasty — one of the most important imperial seals ever found in China.

Underneath the choir of the Duomo, a narthex containing important late-13th century frescoes ( probably about 1280 ) was found and excavated in 1999-2003.

Danebury is considered a type-site for hill forts, and was important in developing the understanding of hill forts, as very few others have been so intensively excavated.

During these excavations up to 1914, some important buildings were excavated in and around the city.

The Great Orme Mines are possibly the most important copper mines of the Bronze Age yet discovered and excavated.

The village is an important archaeological site: findings from the Neolithic period, Eneolithic period, Bronze Age, early Slavic period ( several Slavic settlements ) have been excavated there.

Certain important parts of the collection, including material from Begram, Ai Khanum, Tepe Fullol, and the gold jewellry from all six of the excavated burials at Tillya Tepe, have been on travelling exhibition since 2006.

Some of more important Makurian sites looked at were the city of Faras and its cathedral, excavated by a team from Poland ; the British work at Qasr Ibrim ; and the University of Ghana's work at the town of Debeira West, which gave important information on daily life in medieval Nubia.

The most important evidence of human occupation comes from the area of Nandá, near the eastern coast, where dozens of prehistoric burials have been excavated.

The very extensive Minoan commercial settlement Roussolakkos close to the Chiona beach, excavated by English archaeologists, clearly shows that the region was one of the most important commercial centres of the Minoan culture in the extreme east of the island of Crete.

The most important settlement excavated are those of Frattesina in Veneto region, Bismantova in Emilia-Romagna and near the Monti della Tolfa, north of Rome.

As one of only three places in South Africa where such old remains have been excavated, Klipgat Cave is one of the most important historical sites in the Western Cape.