Sentences with phrase «european paleolithic»

Then, says the report, at sometime before the Neolithic period (at least 6,400 years ago), Asian dogs were transported by humans to Europe where they displaced European Paleolithic dogs.

According to that analysis, ancient Asian dogs originated from a domestication event from Asian wolves at least 12,500 years ago; while European Paleolithic dogs originated from an independent domestication event from European wolves at least 15,000 years ago.

There were two populations of dogs in the Paleolithic, goes the hypothesis, but one of them — the European Paleolithic dog — is now extinct.

Not exact matches

The data for her study were taken from the remains of 52 European and Levantine individuals — Neandertals and Upper Paleolithic humans — from 37 sites dating back to between 500,000 and 12,000 years before the present.

Our findings reveal the timing of divergence of western Eurasians and East Asians to be more than 36,200 years ago and that European genomic structure today dates back to the Upper Paleolithic and derives from a meta - population that at times stretched from Europe to central Asia.

In preliminary work, European archaeologists had fired reproductions of Upper Paleolithic points made of antler at the carcasses of oxen and deer, then studied the marks that they left on the bones.

It is similar in shape to recent African skulls as well as to European skulls from the Upper Paleolithic period, but different from most other early anatomically modern humans in the Levant.

Evidence for the appearance of breed variation is found in several European Upper Paleolithic sites.

It is likely that Paleolithic (the old stone age which began 2.6 million years ago and ended 10000 — 12000 y ago) or Holocene (10000 y ago to the present) hunter - gatherers living in coastal areas may have dipped food in seawater or used dried seawater salt in a manner similar to nearly all Polynesian societies at the time of European contact (53).

Through brilliantly meticulous storytelling, Weidensaul traces the long history of this first frontier, from the Paleolithic Age through the age of European exploration and colonization, to the clash of imperial powers and pent - up Indian fury that led to the Seven Years» War.

Current interpretation of Y - chromosome and mtDNA data suggests that modern - day Portuguese trace a significant amount of these lineages to the paleolithic peoples who began settling the European continent between the end of the last glaciation around 45,000 years ago.

At the Howiesons Poort and Stillbay sites in South Africa are found «lithic stone industries that are comparable to European Upper Paleolithic in their sophistication, yet they date fully 20,000 to 30,000 years earlier.»