Sentences with phrase «archaeological data from»

An exhaustive review of archaeological data from the last 30 years provides details of how the world's landscapes have been shaped by repeated human activity over many thousands of years.

Not exact matches

I'll be gathering unbiased archaeological and historical data mainly from universities and well - known books.

Roel Lauwerier from the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands corroborated Lenders» archival findings with data from archaeological sites at which fish bones were uncovered.

The international research team, including researchers from the University of Exeter, created a new database of historical and archaeological information using data on 414 societies spanning the last 10,000 years.

To get to the bottom of things, he mapped the ages and locations of 1,323 woolly mammoth remains and 576 archaeological sites, and he merged them with data from plant and pollen records, and climate change information from ice cores in Greenland.

Weaving together data from the many journal articles and archaeological site reports, the team concluded that the timing of extinctions indicates humans may be involved in the extinction of more than 60 % of the nearly 150 native mammal species.

The detective story began at Cambridge University seven years ago, when Tjeerd van Andel and a team of paleoclimatologists started combing through environmental and archaeological data to try to solve an old mystery: Why did Neanderthals vanish from Europe 28,000 years ago?

They were able to use the data gathered to test previous hypotheses drawn from archaeological and historical data, and from studies of modern DNA.

«With disparate time estimates coming from the genetic studies, we need archaeological data to fix the chronology for when people are present in different places,» Rademaker says.

It is an analysis of metric data taken from the remains of domestic animals (cows, sheep and pigs) salvaged on archaeological sites across the Iberian Peninsula.

To clarify this point, researchers at EURAC compared Ötzi's mitochondrial DNA and Y chromosome with available data from numerous ancient samples found at 14 different archaeological sites throughout Europe.

Emphasis lies in comparing regional - scale reconstructions of environmental and climatic processes using natural archives, documentary and instrumental data, with evidence of past human activity obtained from historical, paleoecological and archaeological records.

First, there is very little in the way of archaeological data about cvilzations during the transition from the last glaciation to the Holocene.

Now, recent work by Dorian Fuller, an archeobotanist, and his team at the University College London, is filling in the story of rice from multiple directions using genetics and archaeological data to map the emergence and spread of rice in all of its varied production systems.

to map land - use from archaeological and historical data, and expert - based quantitative estimates of variables related to the land - use categories (LU)