Sentences with phrase «archaeological samples»

Fowler A., Bridge M. (2009), «Climate inferences from oak archaeological samples», Eurodendro 2009 [conference presentation].

It is illegal to remove archaeological samples from Egypt, so the researchers dated items from museum collections in Europe and North America, as well as freshly excavated seed samples from Tell es - Sakan on the Gaza Strip, which was an outpost of ancient Egypt.

Not exact matches

But it is illegal to remove any archaeological artifact — even mud or pollen samples — from the country for analysis.

A team, led by Professor Thomas Higham of the University of Oxford, obtained new radiocarbon dates for around 200 samples of bone, charcoal and shell from 40 key European archaeological sites.

For instance, researchers may have a limited time to survey coastal archaeological sites threatened by erosion, to sample melting ice sheets holding clues to past climates, and to document so - called thermokarst lakes, which are formed by meltwater from permafrost.

The animal from more than four thousand years ago was identified by its fossilised hair, found in an archaeological soil sample.

Dr. Charlier argues that human remains in museums and scientific institutions can be divided into four categories, «ethnographical elements» such as hair samples with no certain identification; anatomical remains such as whole skeletons or skulls; archaeological remains; and more modern collections of skulls, used in now discredited studies in the early 20th century.

In eras of prosperity, more trees were cut down for building and fuel, yielding more samples in the archaeological record.

The radioactive carbon 14 is isolated from the other atoms in a sample, making it possible to derive more accurate chronologies from much smaller archaeological or anthropological specimens

The team sampled 151 mummified individuals from the archaeological site of Abusir el - Meleq, along the Nile River in Middle Egypt, from two anthropological collections hosted and curated at the University of Tuebingen and the Felix von Luschan Skull Collection at the Museum of Prehistory of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Stiftung Preussicher Kulturbesitz.

The researchers, led by Dr Andrew Wilson, an expert in perception, action and embodied cognition at Leeds Beckett, alongside Associate Professor Qin Zhu from the University of Wyoming, Professor Lawrence Barham and Professor Ian Stanistreet from the University of Liverpool, and Professor Geoffrey Bingham from Indiana University, analysed a sample of 55 spheroids (ball - shaped stone objects found in African archaeological sites) from the Cave of Hearths in the Makapan Valley in South Africa.

Most of these samples originated from archaeological layers or sites where no Neandertal bones or teeth were previously found.

From sediment samples collected at seven archaeological sites, the researchers «fished out» tiny DNA fragments that had once belonged to a variety of mammals, including our extinct human relatives.

Additional support for population structure comes from the clustering of all the ancient samples within C1 into a sub-haplogroup distinct from that of modern dogs, while it is also noteworthy that non-C haplogroups, including A, are more apparent in Southeast Europe in the archaeological record12.

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.

Smith and a graduate student went to South Africa and collected samples from the Pinnacle Point archaeological site looking for evidence of the Toba super volcano.

For the past few years, hundreds of these bones have been collected from archaeological sites all over the world, and groundbreaking genomics papers have been published using these samples.

We present whole - genome sequences of 10 ancient samples from archaeological excavations in East England, which date to the late Iron Age and to the early and middle Anglo - Saxon periods and hence let us directly observe and quantify the genetic impact of the Anglo - Saxon migrations in England.

We successfully extracted and sequenced DNA from archaeological fecal samples in order to assess possible differences in the fecal communities of individuals from Saladoid and Huecoid indigenous cultures.

(b) The ancient samples used in this study were excavated at three archaeological sites in East England: Hinxton, Oakington and Linton.

Flink et al. (2014) typed the TSHR and BCDO2 loci in archaeological chicken samples from Europe, spanning the last 2,200 years, to further examine the hypothesis of selection during early domestication.

Laser Ablation - Inductively Coupled Plasma - Mass... — Samples of copper - based artifacts from four components from three Late Iroquoian archaeological sites in southern Ontario were analysed using Laser Ablation...

All samples came from the archaeological area of Milena (Caltanissetta, Sicily) those of the Bronze Age were found on a site with a precise stratigraphic.

Samples sent from archaeological excavations at Keezhadi have been identified as nearly 2,200 years old This document discusses the way radiometric dating and stratigraphic principles are used to establish the conventional geological time scale.

Uranium dating definition, a method of dating archaeological or geological specimens by determining the decay activity of the uranium in a given sample.

Its presence in organic materials is the basis of the radiocarbon dating method pioneered by Willard Libby and colleagues to date archaeological, geological and hydrogeological samples.

Yet her Byzantine heritage beckons the inner tourist to actually brush off the sand and go touring, not to just her archaeological sights but also her vineyards to sample their sun - imbued nectar.

Finally we will head to the archaeological center of Tipon, which is an important Inca construction that is currently considered by experts as one of the most interesting samples of Inca engineering by its complex water channels.

The festival includes concerts, workshops and the opportunity to sample the unique cuisine of Veracruz, as well as a spectacular night - time show at El Tajín archaeological site.

Visitors can swim with stingrays or dolphins, sample some of the delicious food and beverages that the island has to offer, or visit an archaeological site to learn about traditional Mayan culture.

For the calculation of MRE offsets from archaeological contexts, there is a lack of robust protocols to assure sample suitability.

So the researchers studied black mat sediment samples from 10 archaeological sites dating back to the Clovis people, the first human inhabitants of the New World.