31.   Other archaeologists said the most immediate need was to stabilize the monuments against further erosion with new conservation techniques.

32.   Other archaeologists said the analysis appeared to be sound.

33.   Other archaeologists said they were impressed by the research, but were reserving judgment pending further investigations at Cactus Hill and other sites in the eastern United States.

34.   Some respected Israeli archaeologists also say the controversy is overblown.

35.   The archaeologists said the wreck had already yielded a foot-tall bronze bell, the brass barrel of a blunderbuss, a cannonball and a lead sounding weight.

36.   The archaeologists said that traces of the border and other clues suggest that the entire mural wraps around the room.

37.   The ancient Indian cultures knew better, state archaeologists say.

38.   The fight goes on, the archaeologists say, largely because so much theory is riding on such scarce hard evidence.

39.   The trees would have been cut down with axes made of bronze, archaeologists say.

40.   Thousands of years before highways linked Kansas City and southern Illinois, a prehistoric Indian culture may have traveled regularly between the two sites, an archaeologist says.