Sentences with phrase «ancient human migrations»

As one of the world's leading authorities on ancient seafaring, he has devoted much of his career to hunting down hard evidence of ancient human migrations, searching for something most archaeologists long thought a figment: Ice Age mariners.

Researchers were able to determine the genome of stomach bacteria that infected the famous Iceman at the time of his death, in the process giving us clues about ancient human migrations.

Researchers are scouring the now - barren Arabian Peninsula to uncover its hidden role in ancient human migration.

Neanderthal DNA from a femur offers scientists proof that a small human group left Africa and disappeared long before the ancient human migration that spearheaded modern human population.

Students simulate the passing on of genetic markers and make connections to ancient human migration routes.

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Al Wusta's ancient human fossil — combined with comparably ancient stone tools found at other Arabian Peninsula sites (SN: 4/4/15, p. 16)-- challenges the view that humans left Africa in one or a few major migrations, says paleoanthropologist María Martinόn - Torres.

Three ancient river systems, now buried, may have created viable routes for human migration across the Sahara to the Mediterranean region about 100,000 years ago, according to research published September 11 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Tom Coulthard from the University of Hull, UK, and colleagues from other institutions.

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.

By comparing Ust» - Ishim's genome to various groups of modern and ancient humans, the researchers are filling in gaps in the map of initial human migrations around the globe.

«Most of the archaeological evidence for movement is based on artifacts, but artifacts can be stolen or copied, so they are not a real good proxy for actual human movement,» says archaeologist Doug Price of the University of Wisconsin in Madison, who tracks ancient migration by analyzing isotopes.

They — and all other Europeans — are already a mishmash, the children of repeated ancient migrations, according to scientists who study ancient human origins.

Concerned that evidence of human settlement and migration may be lost under the sea, researchers are finding new ways of tracking ancient mariners.

Indeed, the evidence from Misliya is consistent with recent suggestions based on ancient DNA for an earlier migration, prior to 220,000 years ago, of modern humans out of Africa.

But another kind of DNA might help them in their work — ancient human DNA that details migration and population patterns from that time.

This contrasts with many archaeological sites in Russia, Europe, and the Americas where ancient humans are rarely directly related to living people nearby, thanks to wholesale migration and mixing since the invention of agriculture about 12,000 years ago.

Almost all of us are the children of repeated ancient migrations, according to researchers who study ancient human origins.

Almost all of us are the children of repeated ancient migrations, according to researchers who study human origins.

The first ancient human genome from Africa to be sequenced has revealed that a wave of migration back into Africa from Western Eurasia around 3,000 years ago affected the genetic make - up of populations across East Africa.

A study of ancient skulls found in Brazil reveals that human migration occurred in Americas through two waves of human population.

The «Out of Africa» theory of human migration proposes that our ancient Homo sapiens ancestors evolved in Africa before migrating in a single wave to the Asian continent about 60,000 years ago.

Listen to the Nature Podcast in which study author María Martinón - Torres explains how the ancient teeth challenge ideas of early human migration here.

The first whole - genome analyses of ancient human DNA from Southeast Asia reveal that there were at least three major waves of human migration into the region over the last 50,000 years.

A photographer undertook an artistic and scientific odyssey that was inspired by an ancient migration now imperiled by human encroachment.