Sentences with phrase «archaeological evidence»

He believes the inhabitants were capable of lighting fires, though he does not yet have direct archaeological evidence of that.

The researchers do not rule out human intervention entirely, however, because some disputed archaeological evidence suggests a low number of humans may have been present at the time.

They note that these findings agree with archaeological evidence that suggests that Mayan society collapsed in three phases over the same time period.

It's also really difficult to find archaeological evidence in this environment, and many locations are only accessible by boat.

But scientists had little direct archaeological evidence to paint an exact picture of how wine was consumed during the period.

But there's precious little archaeological evidence to support either side.

The present archaeological evidence clearly shows it was copied.

Domestic cats have been living with people for about 10,000 years, according to recently uncovered archaeological evidence.

Temperature data shows no catastrophic warming trend, and archaeological evidence proves the planet has undergone periods of much more intense warming and cooling than our modern age has experienced.

Comparing his models and archaeological evidence lets researchers see what conditions led to growth or decline for these peoples.

Still, the team's predictions line up well enough with archaeological evidence and previous genomic studies that many scientists suspect the view from mitochondrial DNA's narrow window is largely accurate.

Christians can be confident that there is plenty of archaeological evidence for many of the events, people and places described in its pages.

«Considered in total, this study provides important early archaeological evidence for meat eating, hunting and scavenging behaviors - cornerstone adaptations that likely facilitated brain expansion in human evolution, movement of hominins out of Africa and into Eurasia, as well as important shifts in our social behavior, anatomy and physiology,» Ferraro said.

«you do not consider historical docu ments about Jesus that coincide with archaeological evidence as evidence?»

Brokaw has written the comprehensive book A History of the Khipu based on archaeological evidence and colonial - era manuscripts that mention the devices.

zoro dates to (at the very earliest — 1200 b.c. even thou i know its from 500 b.c.) 500-1200 b.c. while the main gods in the hindu myths are from 1500 — 5000 b.c. and those dates are supported by archaeological evidence.

A wide array of archaeological evidence such as ceremonial dumps, burials, art, and artificial construction support the idea that caves were used primarily for ceremonial activities.

Chimpanzees have been using hammer stones and anvils for at least 4,300 years, according to new archaeological evidence from Africa

Although researchers traditionally used archaeological evidence to determine when our species domesticated another, DNA can also show when a population went from wild to mild.

The timing of this decline correlates with environmental changes associated with the onset of the last glacial cycle, the team reports, whereas archaeological evidence does not support the presence of large populations of humans in eastern Beringia until more than 15,000 years later.

The new study is based on genetic data alone and doesn't take archaeological evidence into account, says Greger Larson, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of Oxford.

«This is a great piece of work,» says Alexander Bentley, an anthropologist at Durham University in the U.K. Bentley adds that the new findings, including the signs of violence on the skeletons — such as multiple skull fractures — are consistent with other archaeological evidence from Central Europe that men raided outside communities and captured their women.

It provides the first archaeological evidence for the existence, more than 3 million years ago, of hominid cognitive and motor skills necessary for manufacturing hard stone tools,» the team of archaeologists who reported the findings in the journal, said, in a statement released Thursday.

Forthcoming in the Journal of Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, the study offers the earliest known archaeological evidence for human construction of large - scale levees and other flood - control systems in China.

To investigate both the potential causes and effects of this population boom, Petraglia and his colleagues scoured existing archaeological evidence in south Asia.

Catherine Brahic notes in her article about the origins of cooking that the earliest confirmed archaeological evidence of fire at...

The authors prefer the second explanation, because it fits with archaeological evidence showing that humans were not only on Sulawesi at the time, but were also in Australia by at least 50,000 years ago.

[«While these claims have been made repeatedly over the last century, the truth of the matter is that skeptics and liberal theologians are unable to cite a single piece of solid archaeological evidence in support of their claims.

Posted on June 17 on the bioRxiv preprint server, the research supports archaeological evidence about the multiple origins of farming, and represents the first detailed look at the ancestry of the individuals behind one of the most important periods in human history — the Neolithic revolution.

For one, archaeological evidence now indicates that pigs were domesticated at least twice, once in China's Mekong valley and once in Anatolia, the region in modern - day Turkey between the Black, Mediterranean, and Aegean seas.

The timing of this decline correlates with environmental changes associated with the onset of the last glacial cycle, whereas archaeological evidence does not support the presence of large populations of humans in Eastern Beringia until more than 15,000 years later.

Most scholars assume that it is completely fictional, but recent archaeological evidence suggests that it could be based in part on a real conflict in Ireland 3200 years ago.

Indigenous to Europe, peppermint was originally consumed for medicinal purposes, with archaeological evidence dating its use back almost ten thousand years.

The only archaeological evidence for early corn comes from the San Marcos cave in Tehuacán and the Guilá Naquitz cave in Oaxaca, both in the Mexican highlands.

To test his hypothesis, Wright reviewed archaeological evidence documenting the first appearances of pastoralism across the Saharan region, and compared this with records showing the spread of scrub vegetation, an indicator of an ecological shift towards desert - like conditions.

Fifi doesn't understand ANY historical event that is depicted in the Bible, despite vast archaeological evidence — ergo, it must be all fiction.

Indeed archaeological evidence suggests that reverence for the female as the source of life was of primary importance in the earliest Indian cultures.

An examination of von Däniken's argument from literary and archaeological evidence indicts him beyond appeal.

Alt's work was undermined by shifting sociological theory, Albright's by accumulating archaeological evidence that did not fit his correlations between archaeology and the Bible.