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Example sentences for "archaeologists"

Lexicographically close words:
arch; archaeologic; archaeological; archaeologically; archaeologist; archaeology; archaic; archaism; archaisms; archaistic
  1. All archaeologists are agreed that many artificial hillocks are at present standing with their secrets unrevealed.

  2. It is known to all archaeologists in Western Europe that it is not necessary to go so far east as Mycenae to find the chambered mound, with its dry-stone walls and "Pelasgic" arch.

  3. In my collection, I have bits of cloth taken from a body which archaeologists date not later than 400 A.

  4. No wonder dear old Bandelier, the first of the great archaeologists to study this region, opens his quaint myth with the simple words--"The Rito is a beautiful place.

  5. The only site which has attracted archaeologists is that of Eretria (q.

  6. During the interval, however, archaeologists and philologists were kept fully engaged studying the large amount of material which had been accumulated.

  7. But all my readers are not archaeologists and would not be interested in the fine distinctions among pointed arches.

  8. The archaeologists make ready for battle.

  9. It is also diverting to think of the mistakes into which future archaeologists will fall, led astray by all these copies.

  10. Evans and many others, all archaeologists first, and anthropologists only in the second instance.

  11. It is doubtful, however, if Alcantara marks the site of any Roman town, though archaeologists have sometimes identified it either with Norba Caesarea or with Interamnium.

  12. A valuable endowment of research in specimens, literature and pictures, deposited in libraries, museums and galleries since 1880, will keep ethnologists and archaeologists employed for many years to come.

  13. Soalato and on the island of Lesina) has been shown by modern archaeologists to belong to the Roman period.

  14. In 1857, the second general meeting was held at Regensburg, at which the number of archaeologists and artists amounted to several hundred.

  15. Archaeologists claim for church bells a certain value in regard to the inscriptions which they nearly always bear, and which serve as so many guide-posts directing to facts belonging to past ages.

  16. A comparative research on such a scale could only be effectively carried out with the active cooeperation of orientalists, archaeologists and philologists in all departments of research.

  17. But just suppose that old Bunker Hill should suddenly spout fire and brimstone and bury us under tons of ashes--only fancy the condition of mind of those future archaeologists when they struck our house after their months of digging!

  18. Just fancy those archaeologists trying to make their 'monk' live there!

  19. All the ingenuity of archaeologists has been insufficient to determine at what particular spot this military post was established.

  20. It will go far, we should think, toward rehabilitating in the minds of Christian archaeologists the pious belief of former ages upon this subject, wherever it may have been shaken.

  21. The Men-an-Tol has aroused much speculation among archaeologists as to its probable use or meaning.

  22. Archaeologists in Egypt and archaeologists in Ireland face the same unsolved problem, namely, the purpose of the empty stone chest without inscriptions and quite unlike a mummy tomb, and of the stone basin in New Grange.

  23. Cromlech is the Welsh equivalent for the Breton dolmen, but Breton archaeologists use cromlech to describe a circle formed by menhirs.

  24. I have visited all the chief points where the destructive genius of the Muscovite archaeologists has been exercised; but it would be impossible for me to describe the grief I felt at the sight of such horrible devastation.

  25. More recently (in 1900) excavations made in the Acropolis cemetery by German archaeologists yielded a large quantity of pottery, chiefly Geometrical in character, extending from the eighth to the middle of the sixth century B.

  26. In technical details they did not equal the imitations made at Naples, some of the best of which deceived both archaeologists and collectors.

  27. Considering their attainments and achievements, the two women who occupy the highest place as archaeologists in the English-speaking world are Mrs. Agnes Smith Lewis and Margaret Dunlop Gibson.

  28. The women archaeologists so far mentioned, with the exception of Queen Caroline Murat, were conspicuous as writers rather than active investigators in the field.

  29. The Nestor of women archaeologists is Donna Ersilia Caetani-Bovatelli--the daughter of the famous Dante scholar, the late Duke Don Michel Angelo Caetani-Sermonetta.

  30. It is only in the last half century that the industry of excavating archaeologists has brought the extent and civilization of the AEgean peoples to our knowledge.

  31. The archaeologists are presently able to distinguish scrapers, borers, knives, darts, throwing stones and hand axes .

  32. But archaeologists are of the opinion that the Pyramids have been thoroughly explored," began Dr.

  33. Archaeologists are not above reading personal paragraphs and leaders about themselves, though current events do not interest them.

  34. Among archaeologists he is thought a pre-eminent palaeographer, among palaeographers a great archaeologist.

  35. But while archaeologists thus influenced enlightened opinion, another body of scholars rendered services of a different sort--the centre of their enterprise being the University of Oxford.

  36. For a generous statement regarding the great services of the Danish archaeologists in this field, see Quatrefages, introduction to Cartailhac, Les Ages Prehistoriques de l'Espagne et du Portugal.

  37. The upper half had been cut off in order to make way for a new pavement or black stone blocks (known to archaeologists as the niger lapis) on the site of the comitium, just to the north-east of the Forum in front of the Senate House.

  38. Unfortunately, some archaeologists of earlier date than the present had also made some excavations in search of memorials of the past.

  39. The modern archaeologists call their predecessors 'sacrilegious robbers,' but we are averse to the use of strong language among men of science.

  40. The archaeologists of the last generation were, in the light of modern findings, quite justified when, contrary to the then stereotyped idea, they maintained that skulls were harder things than consonants.

  41. One of our standard archaeologists lamented a few decades ago: "As the Germans have decreed this it is in vain to dispute it, and not worth while to attempt it".


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "archaeologists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.