Sentences with phrase «archaeological evidence for»

Palaeoclimatic and archaeological evidence for a 200 - yr recurrence of floods and droughts linking California, Mesoamerica and South America over the past 2000 years (The Holocene, Volume 13, Number 5, pp. 763 - 778, 2003)-- Amdt Schimmelmann et al..

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.

These results support previously published archaeological evidence for stone tool use in australopiths and provide skeletal evidence that our early ancestors used human - like hand postures much earlier and more frequently than previously considered.

The study is the first to use the archaeological evidence for parasites in Roman times to assess «the health consequences of conquering an empire.»

Sacks's survey includes forays into topics ranging from the history of typesetting to the twisty tale of c, k, and q. (The Phoenicians pronounced the precursors of k and q in slightly different ways, while the Etruscans replaced the Greek gamma - which stood for a sound they did not use - with the crescent - shaped c.) He carefully delves into the archaeological evidence for the alphabet's origins, describing the oldest known alphabetic inscriptions, dating to about 1800 B.C., which were recently identified among rock carvings at Wadi el - Hol in central Egypt.

No written records predate the arrival of Spanish explorers in the Americas, but the earliest archaeological evidence for maize domestication dates back around 8,700 years.

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.

The earliest archaeological evidence for dingoes in Australia is 3500 years old.

«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.

«Most of the archaeological evidence for movement is based on artifacts, but artifacts can be stolen or copied, so they are not a real good proxy for actual human movement,» says archaeologist Doug Price of the University of Wisconsin in Madison, who tracks ancient migration by analyzing isotopes.

But the earliest archaeological evidence for crop cultivation in China is 11,000 years old, suggesting that farming was slow to emerge from ancient traditions of plant use.

That is later than the earliest archaeological evidence for dogs in both places, which means modern dogs share an ancestor that may in fact be younger than the dogs that had already inhabited both Europe and the Far East during the earlier Stone Age period, the Paleolithic.

So we looked at endoparasites; these are parasitic worms and single - cell parasites that cause dysentery, for example, and looked at all the archaeological evidence for these right across the Roman Empire compared with the evidence in the Bronze and Iron Age, but before the Roman Empire.

She notes: «We have archaeological evidence for the Inca resettling conquered tribes off their potato - growing heights into the maize - growing valleys.

Not a shred of any archaeological evidence for anything in the Bible before people claiming to be from «The House of David».

Your dates are at the very least questionable, but seeing as there is no archaeological evidence for the exodus from Egypt or the 40 years of wandering, there is no way to be sure exactly the date of the myth's origins.

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

Will There is no archaeological evidence for anything recorded in the Bible before rulers claiming to be from the House of David.

This charge is simply not true, as there is both philological and archaeological evidence for knowledge and use of this animal in the early second millennium BC and even earlier.

Not exact matches

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

But we can check for historical accuracy, internal consistency and archaeological evidence of events of the bible (more with Acts and the letters)

There was no global flood, the entire human race didn't come from two people in a garden who ate a fruit and got kicked out, there is no archaeological evidence of an exodus of over 1 million Israelites coming out of Egypt and wandering the desert for 40 years.

For some, these works showed too much caution and too little use of archaeological evidence.

Second, while the debate may seem to be about the relevance of archaeology for understanding ancient Israel's origins and early history the divisive issue is not the relevance of archaeology but the way archaeological evidence is interpreted.

Sometimes, however, the Bible refers to a character for whom we have no archaeological evidence.

Or maybe simply ask how the huge tribes of the descendants of Hebrew immigrants supposedly built giant cities, lived in them for a thousand years, yet managed to leave not a single scrap of archaeological evidence behind?

What about the practical issues such as the fact that there is no historical or archaeological evidence whatever for anything in the book of Mormon?

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

The most recent migration backed by genetic and archaeological evidence, for example, occurred only 700 years ago: The Thule Inuit people spread out from the Bering Strait region across the Arctic, replacing the Paleo - Eskimo people who had lived there for millennia.

Along the pacific coast of Canada, much of this shoreline is today covered by dense forest and only accessible by boat, making it difficult to look for the archaeological evidence which might support this hypothesis.

The genetic studies provide greater context for archaeological evidence found in the Americas: The research shows that the incredible diversity of cultures and languages among the native people of the Americas developed in place.

This is congruent with the earliest osteological evidence for the disease in the archaeological records dated to 2000 BC from India.

But Roberts says he doesn't see evidence for such a huge shift in the archaeological record.

Despite extensive archaeological and anthropological evidence for its occurrence, most scientists believe that cannibalism was only an irregular feature of prehistoric human societies.

For more on ancient evidence of children's play, see «Ancient kids» toys have been hiding in the archaeological record.»

The South African archaeological record is so important because it shows some of the oldest evidence for modern behavior in early humans.

If two species have mixed in the past, the genetic evidence of that indiscretion may linger like an archaeological record for 10,000 years or more.

For prehistoric times, the main evidence is from forensic archaeology: the proportion of skeletons that had bashed - in skulls, or arrowheads embedded in bones, together with archaeological evidence such as fortifications.

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

But no other archaeological sites have yielded evidence for teenage male war bands or canine - consuming initiation rites, raising doubts about Anthony and Brown's proposed scenario, he argues.

By joining the old and new evidence together, researchers said the untapped archaeological proof may no longer present an obstacle for the «Beringian Standstill» theory.

This study has gathered together evidence for the presence of beeswax in the pottery vessels of the first farmers of Europe by investigating chemical components trapped in the clay fabric of more than 6,000 potsherds from over 150 Old World archaeological sites.

Only three archaeological sites within the desert have been searched for evidence of human settlement, all of which stand near streams.

For example, beeswax was detected in cooking pots from an archaeological site in Turkey, dating to the seventh millennium BC — the oldest evidence yet for the use of bee products by Neolithic farmeFor example, beeswax was detected in cooking pots from an archaeological site in Turkey, dating to the seventh millennium BC — the oldest evidence yet for the use of bee products by Neolithic farmefor the use of bee products by Neolithic farmers.

Prior work had suggested that domesticated dogs came from the Middle East based on archaeological evidence and domestication patterns for other animals.

The earliest evidence for cheese making comes from 7,000 - year - old archaeological sites in Poland, where milk fat remains were found in holed ceramic containers that could have served as rudimentary strainers.

That and other discoveries led Dolores Piperno, an archaeobotanist at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and her co-workers to begin searching for archaeological evidence of the earliest maize in the Balsas River region.

• A New Look at Old World Money For more than a century, archaeological excavations have uncovered evidence that ancient Bronze Age civilizations carried on long - distance trading of tin, copper, lapis lazuli, and gold.

Since much of Beringia, theorized to have been located generally between northwest North America and northeastern Asia, has been under water for more than 10,000 years, it has been challenging to find archaeological and ecological evidence for this «deep history,» as Sicoli calls it.

Fullagar predicts that the technique of examining the edges of tools for evidence of ancient food processing will allow study of other cases of early agriculture which do not leave archaeological clues such as mounds or seeds.