Initial < sup > 87 </ sup > Sr /< sup > 86 </ sup > Sr ratios are a useful tool in archaeology, forensics and paleontology because the < sup > 87 </ sup > Sr /< sup > 86 </ sup > Sr of a skeleton, sea shell or indeed a clay artefact is directly comparable to the source rocks upon which it was formed or upon which the organism lived.

Some archaeological authors have objected that Arthur and his restorers were not discovering the palace and civilization as it was, but were creating a modern artefact based on contemporary art and architecture.

This is in the area where the Bible reports Samson to have lived, and Professor Shlomo Bunimovitz, a co-director of the dig, was reported as saying that the artefact helps " anchor the story in an archaeological setting.

He is believed to have been one of the earliest metalworkers in Britain and his discovery supports interpreters who claim that the diffusion of Beaker Culture pottery was the result of population movement, rather than just the widespread adoption of an artefact ' package '.

While most Paleolithic figurines are from the Upper Paleolithic, the Venus of Berekhat Ram found at Berekhat Ram on the Golan Heights is a Middle Paleolithic artefact of the later Acheulian, possibly was made by individuals identified as, Homo erectus.

The Mästermyr chest, an important Viking-era artefact, was found in Gotland.

Linguistics can follow the movement of languages and archaeology can follow the movement of artefact styles but neither can tell whether a culture's spread was due to a source population's physically migrating or to a destination population's simply copying the technology and learning the language.

Although there are undoubtedly similarities between Leavis's approach to criticism and that of the New Critics ( most particularly in that both take the work of art itself as the primary focus of critical discussion ), Leavis is ultimately distinguishable from them, since he never adopted ( and was explicitly hostile to ) a theory of the poem as a self-contained and self-sufficient aesthetic and formal artefact, isolated from the society, culture and tradition from which it emerged.

In 1866, Brasseur de Bourbourg had an opportunity to examine an artefact in Madrid which was in the possession of a Spanish paleography professor named Juan de Tro y Ortolano, who had purchased it some six years earlier.

They were then brought back to Earth — the buried artefact was one of the return ships that had crashed.

As word of the find got out, Nicolay Nicolaysen, the then President of the Society for the Preservation of Ancient Norwegian Monuments, reached the site on 6 February 1880 and, having ascertained that the find was indeed that of an ancient artefact, liaised for the digging to be stopped.

It is not known why it was always considered rare, but the rarity is believed to be genuine ( and not an artefact of insufficient fieldwork ) as its erstwhile habitat was frequently scoured by hunters in Colonial times.

Considered not a man-made artefact but of divine provenance, it was the holiest image of the goddess and was accorded the highest respect.

According to the 1997 Virgin New Adventures novel Eternity Weeps by Jim Mortimore, Liz dies in 2003, the victim of an extraterrestrial terraforming virus contracted while she was part of a UNIT team investigating an alien artefact on the Moon.

The period was one where experiments in alloying lead with bronze were being used to develop new artefact types some of which have an uncertain purpose.

It was a popular explanation for changes in artefact styles amongst processualist archaeologists during the 1960s and 1970s when earlier invasionist approaches were being discredited.

His aim was to determine if Hoabinhian artefact types described by Colani could be defined as clusters of constantly recurring attributes such as length, width, thickness, mass, length-width ratio and cortex amount and distribution.

A discussion with Dragon indicates that the artefact held something called Maker, which Dragon claims was responsible for the nanomycelium, and which is now missing from the planet.

The principal finding of this large-scale study was that, " hen teachers have used an interactive whiteboard for a considerable period of time ( by the autumn of 2006 for at least two years ) its use becomes embedded in their pedagogy as a mediating artefact for their interactions with their pupils, and pupils ’ interactions with one another.

Exactly this kind of flint, which was generally unsuitable for large artefact manufacture, was used for stone tool processing.

The most prominent artefact removed to Lotherton Hall was the Thomas Banks bas-relief marble of the classic scene Alcyone and Ceyx.

The Saltley Handaxe illustrated by John Evans ( archaeologist ) | John Evans in 1897The oldest human artefact found within Birmingham is the Saltley Handaxe: a 500, 000 year old brown quartzite hand axe about long, discovered in the gravels of the River Rea at Saltley in 1892.

More and more of the artefact is uncovered, and additional fossils are found inside which Roney dates to five million years in age — suggesting that the object is at least that old as well.

A twenty-year old Roz, who has been pulled out of her time stream, appears in the Bernice Summerfield novel Oblivion, where she helped Chris, Benny and Jason Kane defeat the mysterious artefact, known as the Egg.

This led to suggestions that the plate, considered important as the oldest-known written artefact from Australia's European history, should be acquired for an Australian museum, but the Dutch authorities have made it clear that the plate is not for sale.

An artifact or artefact ( from Latin phrase arte factum, from ars skill + facere to make ) is " something made or given shape by man, such as a tool or a work of art, esp an object of archaeological interest ".

An article by Goren-Inbar and S. Peltz ( 1995 ) claims it has been modified to represent a female human figure, identifying it as a possible artefact made by Homo erectus of the later Acheulean, in the early Middle Paleolithic.

A sumatralith is an oval to rectangular shaped stone artefact made by unifacially flaking around the circumference of a cobble.

At the bottom of the shaft they find an empty artefact made of adamantium.

The artefact weighs and is made from polished Quartzite, with a bore to take a shaft.

An archaeological artefact is any item that has been made or modified by past human cultures.

From the Oxford English dictionary, the definition of an artefact is an object made by a human being, typically one of cultural or historical interest.

A digital artefact is made by a human being with skill or art.

A 2001 adventure film adapted from the Tomb Raider video game series ; Lara Croft races against time and villains to recover a powerful artefact called the Triangle of Light.

The St Cuthbert Gospel is among the objects later recovered from St Cuthbert's coffin, which is also an important artefact.

File: Griphon UMBO Shield IMG 7433. JPG | Dacian artefact from Piatra Roşie site.

The museum contains a number of priceless objects, including one of the surviving volumes of the first illustrated Life of the Prophet and the Gospel of Mani believed to be the last remaining artefact from Manichaeism.

Wynkyn de Worde printed ballads of Robin Hood from the 16th century are an important artefact, as are John Playford's The Dancing Master and Robert Harley's Roxburghe Ballads collections.

The deep branching of Aquificae species in the rRNA gene tree appears to be an artefact resulting from the very high G + C content of their 16S-23S-5S operons.

Following the excavations, scholars worked on analysing both the artefact material and different environmental archaeological samples from the excavations.

Further analysis of the data that led to the first announcement has cast doubt on the claim that it is a distant object, and follow-up observations in the H-band using the Gemini North Telescope and observations from the orbiting Spitzer Space Telescope were not able to detect it at all, the latter regarding it to be an artefact.

To gain access to it, the party secures the Rhynn Lanthorn from Bodhi, who has stolen the artefact, and upon Bodhi being slain, Imoen's soul is restored.

Clinton presented a small granite monument " To Belarusians from the American people ", perhaps the first post-Soviet cultural artefact from the U. S. on the Belarusian soil.

The oldest artefact in the museum are from Kashafrud, Darband and Ganj Par, sites that date back to the Lower Paleolithic period.

Apart from the lithics, other artefact categories were also present in Mureybet in smaller quantities.

The fourth and final expedition involves Lara infiltrating a high-tech complex owned by none other than Werner von Croy in pursuit of the Iris artefact, an artefact Lara sees as her own from the beginning events of Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation.