Sentences with phrase «ancient skull»

It was here, in 1929, that researchers discovered a nearly complete ancient skull that they determined was roughly half a million years old.

To test this hypothesis, I began a study of ancient skulls of persons who necessarily would have been exclusively breastfed.

A study of ancient skulls found in Brazil reveals that human migration occurred in Americas through two waves of human population.

At the University of Michigan, paleoanthropologist Milford Wolpoff — multiregionalism's most visible spokesman — weighed in with a paper describing how his team had analyzed 25 ancient skulls from throughout the Old World and determined that three relatively recent ones displayed both local and African ancestry, a finding con - sistent with multiregionalist theory.

Our guide showed us photographs of ancient skulls with completely flat tops.

«Ancient skull shows modern humans colonized Eurasia 60 - 70,000 years ago.»

Analysis of ancient skulls suggests a wave of migration before the ancestors of today's Native Americans

Ancient skulls found in Spain reveal how the earliest Neanderthals differed from their ancestors, suggesting their jaws changed shape to grip objects

Or at least, their lineage did, according to Spanish paleoanthropologists who analyzed 17 ancient skulls from a deep bone pit in the Atapuerca Mountains of northern Spain.

A set of ancient skulls unearthed in central Mexico's Teotihuacán Valley, found at construction sites in the rapidly growing Mexico City region, are rewriting the history of human colonization in North America.

Archaeologists in Georgia, a former republic of the Soviet Union, have unearthed the ancient skull of an older person who had lost all but one tooth roughly 1.8 million years before dentures were invented.

By comparing modern and ancient skulls, she found that the cerebellum, an area that acts as a switchboard for the rest of the brain, grew as overall brain size shrank.

To collect a few milligrams of his bone powder for analysis, scientists in the Natural History Museum's ancient DNA lab drilled a tiny, 2 mm wide hole into the ancient skull.

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.

By examining teeth from 768 ancient skulls, Caspari and colleague Sang - Hee Lee of the University of California at Riverside were able to estimate the age distributions of various prehistoric populations.

An analysis of an ancient skull from China suggests it is eerily similar to the earliest known fossils of our species — found in Morocco, some 10,000 kilometres to the west.

The ancient skull is butting up against theories of human evolution because of its incredible antiquity and unexpected human features.

We can, however, measure the inside of ancient skulls, and a few rare fossils have preserved natural casts of the interior of skulls.

Ancient skulls and jaws of pre-human ancestors are displayed at the Georgia National Museum in Tbilisi, Georgia.

An ancient skull found in Papua New Guinea in 1929 is believed to be the world's oldest known tsunami victim.

This computer reconstruction shows an ancient skull that its discoverers say is the earliest known human ancestor.

A sprawling villa in Switzerland is the setting for the night of the «Haunted Summer,» when five famous friends gather around an ancient skull... [Read More]