Sentences with phrase «ancient humans used»

Ancient humans used to «write» using pictures.

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«He reversed a pattern in human behavior so ancient that its origins lay shrouded in the mists of time: that when weapons are developed, they will be used.»

As Bultmann uses them, the former refers to an event so far as it is significant for human existence (e.g., the cross as the salvation - occurrence through which I understand myself as judged and forgiven by God), while the latter refers to an event considered in abstraction from such significance (e.g., the cross as an incident in the annals of ancient history).»

The Greek term psyche (soul), which Christians naturally found themselves using in order to describe the spiritual aspect of a man, already implied the dualistic approach to human nature and introduced a concept for which there had been no verbal equivalent in the language of ancient Israel.26

Just as the ancients used the terms «wind» and «breath» metaphorically to refer to the invisible «spiritual» forces that operate in human societies and motivate their cultures, so we may need to draw upon such vague and indefinite terms in order to understand what is happening in this tradition.

This popular notion is the ancient Greek idea that in the moment of inspiration the human personality was put into a kind of cold storage; or, to use the Greeks» own example, the person became as a flute, passively ready to play whatever was breathed into it.

Rather than view Paul's words as «ancient mythology,» the Christian can use Paul's cosmic language to discuss the considerable «forces» that impinge upon and despoil human community.

According to the Hebrew Scriptures, the now - fallen human race (of two) was left alone to sort out its own destiny, but we get an idea of where things were going, because the Creator did express approval of certain individuals and used his holy spirit to give them help, guidance, and power, if they had need of it, e.g. Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, David, Daniel, and the other ancient prophets.

Humans are the only mammals on the planet who suffer from post - partum depression and post - partum psychosis - we are also the only mammals on the planet who are drugged during birth, nurse by a clock, don't sleep with our babies, time our nursing sessions, supplement with formula, use pacifiers (and a myraid of other behaviors that disrupt ancient hormonal production during lactation).

Then they compared the Dmanisi population with a range of fossils belonging to ancient African hominins alive at the same time, and used modern humans and chimpanzees as control groups.

Using advanced sequencing technologies, University of Oklahoma anthropologists demonstrate that human DNA can be significantly enriched from dental calculus (calcified dental plaque) enabling the reconstruction of whole mitochondrial genomes for maternal ancestry analysis — an alternative to skeletal remains in ancient DNA investigations of human ancestry.

Prompted by the extraordinary DNA identity, the scientists used information from decades - old botanical collections, knowledge of the seasonal movements of ancient hunter - gatherer - farmers and molecular DNA clock calculations to work out that the plants» seeds had almost certainly been transported by humans about 10,000 years ago.

14 Cities have long been gold mines for recyclers: Beginning in ancient times, tanners collected human urine to use in turning animal skins into leather.

But that study extracted ancient DNA from liver and intestinal samples using a method susceptible to contamination with modern human and bacterial DNA, Drosou's team argues.

Boyd, an archaeologist and director of SHUMLA (Studying Human Use of Materials, Land, and Art), an education and research center in Comstock, Texas, will spend the afternoon scouring the shelter for insight into the ancient residents and their spiritual world.

New research using ancient animal depictions tracks the collapse of Egypt's ecological networks one extinction at a time, offering a glimpse into how climate change and human impacts have altered the structure and stability of ecosystems over millennia.

Using an interdisciplinary approach that combined evidence from climate modelling of large 20th - century eruptions, annual measurements of Nile summer flood heights from the Islamic Nilometer — the longest - known human record of environmental variability — between 622 and 1902, as well as descriptions of Nile flood quality in ancient papyri and inscriptions from the Ptolemaic era, the authors show how large volcanic eruptions impacted on Nile river flow, reducing the height of the agriculturally - critical summer flood.

Genetic studies such as this one may help anthropologists understand those migrations — and their timing — even better by giving them a genetic «clock» to use when studying today's humans, or potentially DNA extracted from ancient bones.

Using the large dataset of present - day and ancient human data, the researchers were able to calculate the proportion of the ancestral components in present - day Europeans.

The method was previously used on human organs as an anatomy study aid for medical students, and has since been adopted to digitally archive artifacts such as ancient pottery and prehistoric skulls so that students and researchers can interact with otherwise rarely handled specimens from museum collections.

ON THE HUNT In a new book, anthropologist Pat Shipman argues that ancient humans hastened the demise of Neandertals when they domesticated wolves and used dogs in big game hunts.

From compasses used in ancient overseas navigation to electrical motors, sensors, and actuators in cars, magnetic materials have been a mainstay throughout human history.

After a 45 - year career in diagnostic medical sonography and the observations of thousands of fetuses, I am convinced that the ancient human tendency to use ritual rhythm, drumming and dancing is a natural result of these in utero fetal experiences.

Lead author William Taylor, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, says that this model «enables us for the first time to link horse use with other important cultural developments in ancient Mongolia and eastern Eurasia, and evaluate the role of climate and environmental change in the local origins of horse riding.»

Now, a study uses a new method that relies on ancient proteins to identify and directly date Neandertal bone fragments from Grotte du Renne and finds that the connection between the archaic humans and the artifacts is real.

The new field made a splash when Svante Pääbo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, working with Reich and many other colleagues, used ancient DNA to prove that Neanderthals and humans interbred.

Although nowadays many San tribes that have used bowhunting and poison arrows in the past have abandoned them due to restrictions, modern tools and change of lifestyle in general, the familiarisation, adoption and development of poison weapons dating back to Ancient times are excellent examples of the cognitive shifts in human evolution.

«We have used a relatively new method known as ancient starch analysis to analyse ancient human diet.

But two new papers suggest that they were at home on both the land and the sea: Studies of ancient and modern human DNA, including the first reported ancient DNA from early Middle Eastern farmers, indicate that agriculture spread to Europe via a coastal route, probably by farmers using boats to island hop across the Aegean and Mediterranean seas.

Using props and examples from the fossil record, the scientists showed how the very adaptations that have made humans so successful — such as upright walking and our big, complex brains — have been the result of constant remodeling of an ancient ape body plan that was originally used for life in the trees.

Using CT scans of ancient and modern human skulls, the researchers created digital brain reconstructions, based on the shape of the inner surface of each skull's braincase.

Recently discovered evidence of earlier human habitation in the Americas suggested they may have used a different, more ancient route.

Browning's team used a new technique to trawl for segments of ancient DNA in the genomes of 5600 living humans from Europe, Asia, America and Oceania.

The technique relies on the radioactive isotope carbon - 14, whose radioactivity diminishes over time in a predictable manner, allowing researchers to calculate the age of ancient human sites using charcoal from fires or the bones of the prehistoric humans themselves.

The methods used to conduct studies on modern humans crafting ancient tools was limited until recently by brain imaging technology.

In a paper published August 17, 2017 in the journal PLOS ONE, an international team of researchers, led by Director Nicole Boivin of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, used new techniques to analyze ancient DNA and proteins from 496 bone samples from 22 island, coastal and inland sites in eastern Africa.

The findings, and the techniques used to document them, are important to archaeological research in a broader sense because they lend further support to the idea that fluctuations in ancient mouse populations can be used as a proxy for tracking ancient shifts in human mobility, lifestyle and food domestication.

NORMAN — Using advanced sequencing technologies, University of Oklahoma anthropologists demonstrate that human DNA can be significantly enriched from dental calculus (calcified dental plaque) enabling the reconstruction of whole mitochondrial genomes for maternal ancestry analysis — an alternative to skeletal remains in ancient DNA investigations of human ancestry.

By using highly advanced brain imaging technology to observe modern humans crafting ancient tools, an Indiana University neuroarchaeologist has found evidence that human - like ways of thinking may have emerged as early as 1.8 million years ago.

Neanderthals distilled tar more than 100,000 years before modern humans created glue; archaeologists compared three potential ways this ancient tech was used.

In ancient times, humans used plants remedies to cure ailments.

She continued describing human history with pathogens, showing how signals of ancient, pathogen - driven selection can be used to understand immune response.

The team believe their methodology can be used to unravel the transmission mysteries of other ancient diseases — such as human pubic lice, also introduced via an intermediate hominin from ancestral gorillas over 3 million years ago.

The new phylogenetic analyses use the same model as the original paper but when additional modern Aboriginal and African sequences are added they show that all the ancient Australian sequences are well within what is expected for modern human variation.

Skoglund, P., Storå, J., Götherström, A. & Jakobsson, M. Accurate sex identification of ancient human remains using DNA shotgun sequencing.

This study uses ancient DNA as a window on a crucial period of human evolution the arrival of farming in Europe around 8,500 years ago.

After careful study of hundreds of scientific descriptions, and photographs of scores of fossil humans, it is clear to me that all shades of intergrading exist between «ancient» erectus and modern humans, but the chronological patterns of appearance, even using the evolutionists» own dating methods, do not match the predictions of the theory.

We downloaded the Human Origins Data set13, 14 and called genotypes at all sites in this data set for all ancient samples using a similar calling method as described in ref.

But the impact of ancient human activities has been largely neglected in many of the previous highly influential studies using Amazonian forest plots.

The use of incense and other smoke and vapor to connect humans to the spirit world, can be easily traced throughout the East in parts of Asia and even dating as far back to Ancient Greece.