Sentences with phrase «archaeological studies»
He draws on past and recent archaeological studies indicating that the emergence of state - run societies around 6,000 years ago represented a cultural step backward in some important ways.
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They play an important role in applied sciences as well as industrial and commercial research, with uses ranging from the measurement of stress in commercial airplane wings to the inspection of details inside valuable artifacts in archaeological studies.
Other archaeological studies showed much earlier evidence of domesticated rice around the Yangtse Valley.
The groups from the eastern Alps in fact significantly increased in size only from the Bronze Age onwards, as evidenced by archaeological studies conducted in the territory inhabited by the Iceman.
But the Park District isn't the only party concerned with use of golf course land, where Native American remains and artifacts were discovered during a pre-construction archaeological study.
What this article on the taming of the cat concerns is a new set of work based on genetic analyses of cats and also archaeological studies that are pushing back how early it looks like we actually started domesticating cats.
But many archaeologists noted that genetic and archaeological studies did indeed suggest massive ancient migrations from the Middle East into Europe that could have brought PIE and sparked such language diversification.
«Interestingly, recent archaeological studies suggest that human numbers declined in the Stewart Island region around 1500 AD, a factor which seems to explain why wildlife persisted in this region,» he says.
By combining archaeological studies on remote islands with computer simulations of founding populations and detailed examinations of seafloor topography and ancient sea level, they are amassing crucial new data on voyages from northeast Asia to the Americas 15,000 years ago, from Japan to the remote island of Okinawa 30,000 years ago, and from Southeast Asia to Australia 50,000 years ago.
«Several independent archaeological studies have documented substantial increases in the frequency of chicken remains between the 9th and 12th centuries AD, as well as a shift towards the management of adult hens, presumably to increase egg production.»
«Careful archaeological study in the future could definitely tell us more.»
Cosmological archaeological studies such as this one help astronomers refine their understanding of galaxy formation and evolution.
It is important to note these differences through archaeological studies because, in Americas, animal raising and breeding have religious or cultural significance.
By 1961, after an extensive archaeological study, one - quarter of the partial reconstruction of the Fortress of Louisbourg began.
An increasing number of archaeological studies demonstrate that human hunter - gatherers modify environments for their own benefit by processes consistent with our general model of land - use intensification (14).
Ingram said archaeological studies show that droughts led to hardship, malnutrition and struggles among Native Americans in California and the Southwest.
Thus, the analysis of fossilized fecal material using NGS can be an important tool in archaeological studies to determine the prevalence of certain microorganisms, pathogenic (such as parasites, for example) and non-pathogenic alike.
These findings, published in Royal Society Open Science, match well with earlier linguistic and archaeological studies.
Genetic and archaeological studies, on the other hand, have been equivocal.
6th grade: World history and geography, ancient civilizations and archaeological studies; geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures during the development of Mayan civilization.