Sentences with phrase «ancient human remains»

The discovery of ancient human remains in an important cave site in South Africa raises major questions about the evolution of our direct ancestors, Homo sapiens.

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

A recent letter in the journal Nature claims that access to ancient human remains should be more open, especially in light of advancements in analysis techniques.

Papers on the microbiology of ancient human remains and old artefacts.

The bone — part of an upper left rib from an adult male Neandertal — was originally unearthed between 1899 and 1905 during the excavation of Krapina, a cave in northern Croatia which has yielded hundreds of ancient human remains.

To do this we would need to compare DNA from present populations with genetic material from ancient human remains — a political hot potato in some regions, including the US (see «The legal fight over prehistory»).

The long - term retention of excavated ancient human remains is a fundamental principle of scientific research, regulated by professional ethics and guidelines, and is a museum practice that has been much examined around the world.

His group showed that the petrous bone, containing the tiny inner ear, harbors 100 times more DNA than other ancient human remains, offering a huge increase in the amount of genetic material available for analysis.

Conducting the first large - scale, genome - wide analyses of ancient human remains from the Near East, an international team led by Harvard Medical School has illuminated the genetic identities and population dynamics of the world's first farmers.

«Only more genetic data from ancient human remains will allow us to disentagle our pre-historic past.»

A genomic analysis of ancient human remains from KwaZulu - Natal revealed that southern Africa has an important role to play in writing the history of humankind.

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As a Christian, I absolutely believe God began the human race in the Garden of Eden... as a discerning intelligent human being, I can not deny the facts found in carbon dating studies of ancient fossil remains... if God can creat man, he can also allow for investigation and confirmation of planet plant and animal life, the upheaval of mountains, and history of the sea.

This is where human morality originated as even the burried remains show that our ancient ancestors cared for those in their social groups and cave paintings show that knowledge was being passed down from one generation to the next more than 45,000 years ago.

It is universally recognized that the long story from our earliest remains of human life onward through the great civilizations of the ancient east witnessed remarkable advances.

If Christianity was the only viable synthesis of the traditions and cultures that remained at the end of the ancient world, then it is Christianity itself which represents the most interesting legacy of this era of human consciousness.

Among human archaeological remains, coprolites can be a uniquely valuable record of ancient gut microbiomes — but they're rare to find.

In February, researchers published the first ancient American human genome, sequencing DNA from the remains of a boy known as Anzick - 1, who was buried about 12,600 years ago in what is now western Montana.

No evidence links the remains to any specific group — not even the ancient DNA — but NAGPRA allows the return of human remains to tribes that have a geographical connection.

Microbes beneath the sediment belch the bubbles after feasting on the ancient remains of algae, sea critters and their poop: a primordial stew that's been simmering since long before humans walked the Earth.

The remains of at least 28 ancient humans have been found at the bottom of this 12 - metre - long vertical shaft.

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.

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The site previously yielded the remains of an ancient great ape called Rudapithecus, a possible ancestor of African great apes and humans.

Ancient DNA from the Phoenician remains found in Sardinia and Lebanon could provide insight into the extent of integration with settled communities and human movement during this time period, according to a study published January 10, 2018 in the open - access journal PLOS ONE by E. Matisoo - Smith from the University of Otago, New Zealand and Pierre Zalloua from the Lebanese American University, Beirut, and colleagues.

The group also studied the OR7D4 gene in the ancient DNA from two extinct human populations, Neanderthals and the Denisovans, whose remains were found at the same site in Siberia, but who lived tens of thousands of years apart.

Archaeologists usually draw their clues from ordinary artifacts and human remains, so while the grave gold from the nomadic Scythians is sumptuous, the real prize is the ancient people themselves.

In a paper published in Global Heart (the journal of the World Heart Federation) the authors review the findings of atherosclerotic calcifications in the remains of ancient people — humans who lived across a very wide span of human history and over most of the inhabited globe.

Digging out and examining human remains from ancient cemeteries is the expertise of osteoarchaeologists (osteology being the examination of human remains and archaeology their recovery, with anthropology a combination of both)-- a hobby that turned into a profession for Duhig and took her into the world of crime investigation.

We can now look for ancient human DNA at sites with no bone remains — and perhaps confirm claims such as that humans were present in the Americas 130,000 years ago

Behrensmeyer now plans to examine ancient bone assemblages in a study of human remains that are more than a million years old.

Dr Campbell Price, Curator of Egypt and Sudan at Manchester Museum, said: «The University of Manchester, and Manchester Museum in particular, has a long history of research on ancient Egyptian human remains.

«Only one of Syria's six World Heritage sites — the Ancient City of Damascus — appears to remain undamaged in satellite imagery since the onset of civil war in 2011,» said Susan Wolfinbarger, director of the Geospatial Technologies and Human Rights Project at AAAS.

The remains of these ancient wanderers should not be here — unless our conception of the origin of modern humans is wrong.

She was amazed to find that one of them is 12,700 years old, 700 years more ancient than any human remains ever before found in North America.

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.

Their fossilized remains have been a treasure trove for ancient DNA researchers looking to retrace human evolutionary history.

Archaeologists, who studied ancient tools, ornaments, and human remains in the prehistoric rock shelter Riparo Bombrini, discovered how early homo sapiens survived a climate - changing supervolcano eruption This discovery offered clues how humans can survive climate change.

Complications in the study of ancient tuberculosis: Presence of environmental bacteria in human archaeological remains — Romy Müller — Journal of Archaeological Science — March 2016

The researchers of the new study arrived at this conclusion after dating the archaeological remains at the Cerutti Mastodon site, which has pushed back the arrival of ancient humans to 130,000 years rather than just 15,000 years.

The ancient humans have been dubbed Denisovans after the caves in Siberia where their remains were found.

Naturalist Johann Carl Fuhlrott was the first to recognise that the 1856 Neanderthal remains belonged to an ancient race of humans.

Julien Riel - Salvatore, from Université de Montréal, Canada, and Fabio Negrino, from Università di Genova, Italy analyzed archaeological finds that include ancient tools, ornaments, and human remains discovered in the prehistoric rock shelter Riparo Bombrini in Liguria, Italy.

These most intimate of ancient human artifacts were often ignored or discarded during many previous archaeological excavations, but careful study of materials painstakingly recovered from human paleofeces says a lot about what ancient human dietary practices were like, given their incredibly high content of fiber, undigested plant remains.

The limestone caves, once a marshy wetland supporting a huge diversity of plant life and animals, have expelled an impressive quantity of ancient mammal remains and fossil evidence of an early human - like primate ancestor.

Once inside of the cave, a guide will lead participants on a 4 - 5 hour tour of the cave, learning about its history and geology, as well as viewing ancient Mayan pottery and even human skeletal remains.

One of the few ancient Maya sites to have been found completely intact, ATM Cave has a uniquely spooky atmosphere, perhaps because the deepest part of the labyrinth is littered with the remains of human sacrifices.

The skeleton pattern references the human remains still visible in Ancient Egyptian labourers» houses near the Luxor temple, as well as the massacre of 62 tourists near the city in 1997.

«The remains of what has been described as a huge lost city may force historians and archaeologists to radically reconsider their view of ancient human history.

Julien Riel - Salvatore, from Université de Montréal, Canada, and Fabio Negrino, from Università di Genova, Italy analyzed archaeological finds that include ancient tools, ornaments, and human remains discovered in the prehistoric rock shelter Riparo Bombrini in Liguria, Italy.