Sentences with phrase «ancient skeletons in»

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.

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

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Apr. 23, 2013 — Ancient DNA recovered from a series of skeletons in central Germany up to 7,500 years old has been used to reconstruct the first detailed genetic history of modern Europe.

Now ancient DNA from the fossilized skeleton of a short, dark - skinned, dark - eyed man who lived at least 36,000 years ago along the Middle Don River in Russia presents a different view: This young man had DNA from all three of those migratory groups and so was already «pure European,» says evolutionary biologist Eske Willerslev of the Natural History Museum of Denmark at the University of Copenhagen, who led the analysis.

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.

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

In 2008, he discovered the most complete skeleton yet published of an ancient African hominin, 2 - million - year - old Australopithecus sediba.

Ancient baleen whales found in the same area «would have been perfect prey for such an animal,» says Lambert, who has returned to Peru in search of the rest of Livyatan's skeleton.

The as - yet - unpublished ancient DNA from the nearly complete skeleton of this individual will show that he lacked genetic variants for light skin that spread later in Europeans, according to researchers at the Natural History Museum in London who have unveiled a new reconstruction; they say a scientific paper is coming later this month.

One woman was buried with her spectacles — an expensive and treasured accessory — and several skeletons were interred in a costly stone - lined vault inside the ancient church.

He compared the ancient skull with dozens of other fossils and modern skeletons to look at the whole genus and trace major changes, or the lack thereof, in alligator morphology.

A new study of ancient DNA from the teeth of 101 Bronze Age skeletons has found that seven people living 2800 to 5000 years ago in Europe and Asia were infected with Yersinia pestis, the bacteria that causes the plague.

Burial in the ancient sea of Zealandia: a Toipahautea whale skeleton is slowly covered by sand 27 - 28 million years ago, on its path to become a fossil.

Researchers are trying to extract DNA from skeletons buried in the ancient Philistine cemetery of Ashkelon, in what is now Israel.

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

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.

Her job in the ancient cemetery is to rebuild each skeleton from the disordered bones and fragments (there are no less than 206 bones in the human body).

HOME SWEET GENOME A 4,500 - year - old man's skeleton found in Ethiopia's Mota Cave has yielded the first ancient human genome from Africa.

Thanks to a lack of dental hygiene in the Middle Ages, Warinner found a trove of ancient microbial material on teeth of four skeletons from a medieval monastery in Dalheim, Germany.

That same study linked milk proteins preserved in the calculus of other ancient human skeletons to specific animals — providing a peek into long - ago lifestyles.

This showed that the details of segmentation in the Pseudooides embryos to be nothing more than the folded edge of an opening, which developed into the rim of the cone - shaped skeleton that once housed the anemone - like stage in the life cycle of the ancient jellyfish.

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.

The mitochondrial DNA sequences from the Syrian skeletons showed what the team calls «strong affinities» with ancient DNA recently recovered from roughly 7000 - year - old farming villages in both Germany and Spain, confirming that populations in the Middle East were indeed the source of later farming populations in Europe.

Searches for cancer in ancient remains are plagued (no pun intended) by sampling errors — the signature of cancer can be detected in bones, but many skeletons are incomplete, and of course cancers do not always spread to bone after they originate in soft tissue.

Ancient DNA from skeletons (inset) found at this early farming site in Syria, Tell Halula, points to a maritime route for the spread of farming into Europe.

The use of coral cores in the study was praised by Braddock Linsley, a professor at the Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University who studies ancient climatic conditions by analyzing coral skeleton samples.

In the new study, an international team extracted ancient DNA from the skeletons of four ancient women from the islands of Vanuatu and Tonga, dated to 2300 to 3100 years ago, including three directly associated with the Lapita culture.

However, while most fish in the sea have bones, one ancient lineage — sharks, skates and rays — possess skeletons made entirely of cartilage.

Today, many articulated skeletons of elasmosaurs provide insight in the anatomy, lifestyle and relationships of these spectacular ancient sea monsters.

The team then focused on one skeleton in particular to verify this hypothesis, and analyzed the ancient DNA and lipids from its bones to do so.

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

The unearthing of an ancient mass grave filled with Roman skeletons has left archeologists in modern Turkey grappling for answers after they uncovered the Demre is a town and its surrounding district in the Antalya Province on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey, named after the river Demre.

A book, titled «Kennewick Man: «The Scientific Investigation of an Ancient American Skeleton», provides the most thorough analysis of the find made in Tri-City Herald funeral notices and Death Notices for Kennewick Washington area.

On a journey that will take them to Tibet, Nepal, China, Italy, and Siberia, the Fargos find themselves embroiled with black - market fossils, an ancient Tibetan kingdom, a lost landmass in the North Sea, Stone Age ostrich egg shards inscribed in a cryptic language, a pair of battles separated by thousands of miles and hundreds of years... and a skeleton that could just turn the history of human evolution on its head.

-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.

• Cape Town: Savor Constantia, a wine region within city limits • Dubai: Go over-the-top with a stay at One & Only The Palm resort • Egypt: Take a Nile cruise • Fez, Morocco: Step back in time in the ancient walled medina • Jerusalem: Visit the Holocaust museum at Yad Vashem • Kenya: Stay among the Masai at Campi Ya Kanzi • Knysna, South Africa: Eat oysters at 34 South restaurant • Namibia: Go on a desert safari along the Skeleton Coast • Oman: Stay at the Six Senses Zighy Bay • Petra, Jordan: Marvel at the ancient hard - carved site • Serengeti: Learn to take wildlife photography on safari • Seychelles: Lounge on Anse Source d'Argent beach

Also known as Xibalba, or the Cave of the Crystal Sepulcher, this large complex of caves is full of ancient Mayan stoneware in addition to several fossilized skeletons.

Featured in National Geographic, A.T.M. cave is several kilometers long and is an ancient burial site containing four skeletons, ceramics, and stoneware left by the Maya.

The limestone caves, many containing beautiful stalactites and stalagmites, were sacred to the ancient Maya and pottery and even skeletons can be seen in the caves.

The writers slowly produce answers all of these questions — and many more — in the hours that follow, as Aloy moves beyond the protected confines of her tribe's dominion and into the larger world, where we discover the towering skeletons of ancient buildings, splinter tribes in the far reaches that have developed their own beliefs and rituals, and a stunning contemporary city in the heart of a desert, among many other wonders.

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.