Sentences with phrase «ancient farmers»

They also revealed that the United States» agricultural output and economy are significant beneficiaries of ancient farmers in East Asia, where soybean originated, and Central America and Mexico, where maize (corn) and other important staples were born.

Different mammal species produce slightly different flavors of sterols, and they have been used by archaeologists to determine whether ancient farmers used manure on their fields and to pinpoint the location of long - ago latrines.

The researchers concluded it is likely that ancient farmers favored the VRN - D4 variant of the vernalization gene in this region because of its high adaptive value in the local environment.

Richard Evershed of the University of Bristol has detected signs of excrement from humans or pigs in soil from terraces made by ancient farmers on the small island of Psíra, off the northeast coast of Crete.

That progression may mirror the cat's transformation from a solitary, wild hunter that captured vermin around ancient farmers» grain stores to a sociable house pet, say researchers involved in a new study.

But last year, population geneticist Mattias Jakobsson of Uppsala University in Sweden reported that the DNA of modern Basques is most like that of the ancient farmers who populated northern Spain before the Yamnaya migration.

Researchers at the University of California, Davis, report that ancient farmers had a stronger impact on the evolution of maize,...