Sentences with phrase «ancient skeletons»

While the relatively cool conditions at many European sites have helped preserve the DNA of ancient skeletons, researchers had not succeeded in sequencing DNA from the many skeletons found at very early Middle Eastern sites, due to their very hot and dry environments.

Now, a study of DNA from ancient skeletons in Kazakhstan helps clear things up.

DNA from ancient skeletons and living people offers the «gold standard» in proving who was related to whom.

DNA from five ancient skeletons confirms the Canaanites of biblical fame live on in modern day Lebanon

But most ancient skeletons are highly fragmented, so it's difficult to figure out what kind of animal they were from, and what they were used for.

Genetic evidence suggests so, but ancient skeletons tell a different story.

«Ancient skeletons change views on origins of farming.»

There were four ancient skeletons involved in the project.

Other changes also began early - although ancient skeletons indicate that the animals remained about the same size as wolves for many generations.

The new research, published across two separate research papers, uses a combination of DNA analyses of ancient skeletons and modern samples, as well as archaeological evidence, to put together a complete timeline of migration to the island nation.

Their analysis of nearly 1,000 ancient skeletons in university and museum collections showed that TB was spreading throughout the Americas via herds of cattlelike beasts called bovids around 75,000 years ago.

The study, led by Eske Willerslev, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of Copenhagen, compared the genomes of three ancient skeletons — a 24,000 - year - old child found in central Siberia, a 12,600 - year - old Montana child known as Anzick - 1 and a 4,000 - year - old Saqqaq Eskimo from Greenland — to the genomes of 31 indigenous people currently living in Asia, North and South America, and the Pacific islands.

A new excavation is still finding artifacts, including an ancient skeleton that may have preserved DNA.

They deduce those traits from cave paintings and ancient skeletons.

They had come to expect extraordinary finds in the graveyard of the now decrepit Abbey of St. Peter, where a bountiful store of ancient skeletons was laid to rest in a single place over 1000 years, from the 11th to the 19th centuries.

Few of us are actually the direct descendants of the ancient skeletons found in our backyards or historic homelands.

Using whole - genome sequencing, they looked at rare genetic variants in modern - day British populations and compared them with variants in the DNA of 10 ancient skeletons.

Now, with hundreds of thousands of ancient skeletons (and their petrous bones) still to be analyzed, the field of ancient DNA is poised to both pin down current questions and tackle new ones.

Based on DNA gathered from dozens of ancient skeletons, the study, described last week in a preprint posted on the bioRxiv server, reveals when and where different groups of people arrived in Europe and interbred with each other.

Archaeological investigations have turned up evidence of injuries, degenerative disease, infections, and tumors in ancient skeletons, but no signs (yet) of rheumatoid arthritis (RA).

-LSB-...] the success of Egyptian surgery in setting broken bones is very fully demonstrated in the large number of well - joined fractures found in the ancient skeletons.

The ancient skeleton is just one of 3,500 pieces in the museum's archaeological collection, of which some 350 are on display.