Sentences with phrase «ancient migrations»

What isn't possible is a far more ancient migration — 20,000 years ago or more — suggested by some researchers.

Africa is the birthplace of our species and the source of ancient migrations that spanned the globe.

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

«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.

But many archaeologists noted that genetic and archaeological studies did indeed suggest massive ancient migrations from the Middle East into Europe that could have brought PIE and sparked such language diversification.

As for the Reich paper, many archaeologists and linguists praise the data on ancient migrations.

After asserting hunting rights tied to historic treaties in recent years, the Nez Perce and three other tribes already hunt those bison that follow ancient migration routes outside the park and into Montana in search of winter range.

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

Given the viable hybrid offspring that the most diverse members of our species have produced as a result of cultural conjoinings through both ancient migrations and modern travel, one has to suspect that close encounters of the corporeal kind occurred not infrequently in those dark and lonely cave nights over the course of those long - gone millennia.

But of course, without live tracking or any physical evidence of the ancient migration, it's impossible to draw an exact migration path for these predators of the sea.

The results are a «smoking gun» that an ancient migration into Europe from the steppe occurred, says Pontus Skoglund, an ancient DNA specialist who is now working in Reich's lab but was not a co-author on the paper.

Similar analyses of fossils of other members of the same ancient ecosystem may reveal that multiple species participated in the ancient migrations, scientists say.

Before long, the record of that ancient migration will begin to vanish.

They then used this knowledge to reconstruct the ancient migrations of women by comparing variation in mtDNA among populations throughout the world.

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

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