Sentences with phrase «ancient human settlement»
When Sengül Aydıngün first started surveying the shores of Küçükçekmece Lake in the western suburbs of Istanbul, colleagues doubted she'd find any evidence of ancient human settlement; other researchers had already surveyed the area and hadn't turned up much.
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Some 11,000 years ago, humans living in the ancient Middle East region called the Fertile Crescent shifted from a nomadic existence, based on hunting game and gathering wild plants, to a more sedentary lifestyle that would later give rise to permanent settlements.
The reason grandparents get up at dawn and teenagers stay awake into the wee hours might be related to how ancient humans guarded their settlements, New Scientist reports.
In treeless areas, such geographic features often indicate ancient settlements formed from mud - brick structures that later human occupation has compressed over time into artificial hills.
Concerned that evidence of human settlement and migration may be lost under the sea, researchers are finding new ways of tracking ancient mariners.
Archaeologists have discovered ancient settlements in supposedly uninhabited parts of the Amazon rainforest, proving that it was heavily influenced by human activities.
The success of some ancient mice followed the ups and downs of the earliest human settlements, new data show.
The new discovery may reveal details about the settlement, survival techniques and technology of ancient humans.
Remarkably, investigations of highly preserved human coprolites (ancient stool samples retrieved from archeological sites) have demonstrated that their overall microbiome more closely resembles that of modern humans living in traditional rural settlements than that of the contemporary urban dweller [117].
When a goblin army attacks a settlement and steals the collections of relics, which are ancient devices that have been engineered to power everything in the daily lives of the humans, the human leaders call on the best and brightest to help defeat the Goblins once and for all.