Read about early human culture, civilizations and latest discoveries
at ancient sites in our anthropology news.
Turkish garden historian Gürsan Ergil told me recently that you can still see people covering their roofs with soil and growing vegetables in rural Anatolia — and evidence
at ancient sites that this practice was common in the past as well.
A cartoon that Biblical scholar Kristine Garroway taped up in her college dorm helps to explain kids» invisibility
at ancient sites: Two men in business suits stare intently at an unidentifiable round object sitting on a table.
A cartoon that Biblical scholar Kristine Garroway taped up in her college dorm helps to explain kids» invisibility
at ancient sites: Two men in business suits stare intently at an unidentifiable round...
Meanwhile,
at the ancient site of Kala - Koreysh (the remote first outpost of Islam in the northern Caucasus), the mosque, tombstones, doors, and hilltop site have been digitally scanned, providing valuable data for scholars.
Not exact matches
Visitors will have access to the
ancient ruins
at Mada'in Saleh, a relic of the same
ancient civilization that built the better - known city of Petra in Jordan and a UNESCO world heritage
site.
Calvary or Golgotha was the
site, outside of
ancient Jerusalem's early first century walls,
at which the crucifixion of Jesus is said to have occurred.
At the very moment when the pre-Colombian world had come to a drastic end, a totally unsuspected irruption took place in 1531 when, in the
ancient site of the goddess Tonanzin, a Mestizo woman appeared to announce a new era for «all the inhabitants of this land.»
The invaders were called Amorites («Westerners») and for centuries they dominated the life of the Fertile Crescent, with city - states firmly established
at such
sites as Haran (from whence came Abraham, 11:31), Ugarit, Mari, and Babylon, which was ruled in the decades around 1700 by the renowned Hammurabi, Ugarit and Mari, among other
ancient sites, have yielded profuse contemporary information of several kinds.
The most recent and competent spade work
at the
site of
ancient Jericho returns the verdict that no trace of Israelite violence in the thirteenth century is to be found.
Most web firms take one look
at this
site and run and hide (there's over 800 pages online
at BB, 2500 recipes and 18 years of curated newsletters plus a membership data base that is only as large as it is
ancient in software.
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David Anderson: Over the past two weeks we have learned about the attacks on heritage
sites in Timbuktu, and also
at the
ancient capital of Gao.
The High Court has rejected a bid by a representative of the Council of British Druid Orders (CoBDO), King Arthur Uther Pendragon, to return cremated remains to an
ancient burial
site at Stonehenge.
Your journey back from Westfjords winds along shoreline roads and through mountain passes, stopping
at Vatnsfjördur to visit its
ancient Viking archeological
site.
WASHINGTON — A trio of dogs buried
at two
ancient human
sites in Illinois lived around 10,000 years ago, making them the oldest known domesticated canines in the Americas.
Archaeologists discovered the scroll in 1970
at En - Gedi, the
site of an
ancient synagogue in Israel that burned in the sixth century.
Donald Grayson, an anthropologist
at the University of Washington, worries that dates from the
site might have been contaminated by
ancient carbon from the huge aquifer that sits under much of Florida.
One of Curiosity's first major findings after landing on the Red Planet in August 2012 was an
ancient riverbed
at its landing
site.
DNA found
at archaeological
sites reveals that the origins of our domestic cat are in the Near East and
ancient Egypt.
Get your science news
at our Web
site, www.scientificamerican.com, where you can track down my 2013 column, headlined «Toilet Tissue: Anthropologists Uncover All the Ways We've Wiped,» also about
ancient bathroom habits, as you might have guessed.
Among the best places to find Martian microfossils would likely be
at the
sites of mineralizing springs,
ancient evaporite deposits, and soil hardpans.
«The
site at Lomekwi provides an ideal window into early hominin behavior across an
ancient landscape.
Farmer helped select the landing
site for Mars Pathfinder and thinks that the Mars Surveyor and Mars Odyssey spacecraft now in orbit have begun the job of meeting the first - stage requirements of finding potential
ancient hydrothermal systems — for example, the Mars hematite
site at Terra Meridiani.
People had reached South America
at least 15,000 years ago (SN: 12/26/15, p. 10), well before
ancient people buried dogs
at Illinois» Koster and Stilwell II
sites.
Al Wusta's
ancient human fossil — combined with comparably
ancient stone tools found
at other Arabian Peninsula
sites (SN: 4/4/15, p. 16)-- challenges the view that humans left Africa in one or a few major migrations, says paleoanthropologist María Martinόn - Torres.
Veeramah is quick to point out Larson's analysis hinged largely on the genome of one
ancient pooch, extracted from a 5,000 - year - old fossilized ear bone preserved
at a Neolithic
site in Ireland called Newgrange.
You might shudder
at the mere thought of
ancient brain surgery, but recent studies of the practice
at Bronze Age
sites in Turkey suggest that early neurosurgeons were surprisingly precise and that a majority of their patients may have survived.
«Our current study challenges this one - sided view and suggests that increasing salt accumulation
at the
site of infections might be an
ancient strategy to ward off infections, long before antibiotics were invented.»
The group also studied the OR7D4 gene in the
ancient DNA from two extinct human populations, Neanderthals and the Denisovans, whose remains were found
at the same
site in Siberia, but who lived tens of thousands of years apart.
In this instance, researchers have been able to use new imaging techniques to measure the atomic nanostructure of
ancient crystals
at impact locations, using the 150 - kilometre - wide crater
at Sudbury as a test
site.
The concrete sample examined
at the Advanced Light Source by Berkeley researchers, BAI.06.03, is from the harbor of Baiae, one of many
ancient underwater
sites in the region.
NASA scientists prepare for an unprecedented look
at the Red Planet's
ancient seas and modern ice fields — key
sites in the ongoing search for life.
Ancient DNA in Schlebusch's study came from seven individuals unearthed
at six South African
sites.
At a remote rain forest
site in Guatemala last February, archaeologist David Lee happened upon the find of a lifetime: a royal tomb from the seventh century A.D. that suggests war was not strictly a man's game in
ancient Mayan society.
«
Ancient giant sperm from tiny shrimps discovered
at Riversleigh World Heritage Fossil
Site.»
At this
site, called Anau, three
ancient mounds poke up from the plains.
Archaeologists studying
ancient shipwrecks recently put this technique through the paces
at three different shipwreck
sites dated to the second and third centuries C.E. off the coast of Sicily in Italy.
Chazan, geoarchaeologist Francesco Berna of Simon Fraser University, and their colleagues have an
ancient fire
site at Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa.
Researchers recently determined that the «burned» darkened wood and reddened sediments found
at a
site in northern Germany, now a coal mine called Schöningen, were really colored by water exposure and soil decomposition, not
ancient flames.
The
ancient Oxus culture may have arisen
at sites like Anau, a settlement
at the base of the Kopet - Dag mountains, which dates back to 6500 B.C.. Later settlements like Gonur, roughly 4,000 years old, may have been founded by people from the Kopet - Dag cultures.
It includes data from the team's ongoing excavations
at the
sites of two
ancient communities in the lower Yellow River flood plain of China's Henan province.
One «must» for all four ExoMars
sites was clay: fine - grained sediment that, on Earth, is deposited by water and is excellent
at preserving the remains of
ancient organisms.
We can now look for
ancient human DNA
at sites with no bone remains — and perhaps confirm claims such as that humans were present in the Americas 130,000 years ago
Extracted from a sixteenth century pig found
at the
site of the Montsoriu Castle in Girona, the data obtained indicates that this
ancient pig is closely related to today's Iberian pig.
Genetic variation in antigenic, drug resistance, and pathogenesis determinants is abundant, consistent with an
ancient origin of P. falciparum, whereas DNA variation
at silent (synonymous)
sites in coding sequences appears virtually absent, consistent with a recent origin of the parasite.
Historic structures
at the other five
sites, including
ancient mosques, schools, and civilian as well as government buildings, have all been damaged and, in some cases, destroyed, AAAS reported.
Butchery marks previously found on
ancient dog bones
at other Mayan
sites suggest the dogs were raised for slaughter.
For example,
at an ancestral Pueblo settlement in Blue J, N.M, the researchers were able to map detailed architectural plans of a dozen
ancient house compounds — a discovery enabled by the
site's optimal conditions, the soil matrix, low density ground cover, and the environmental conditions
at the time of the aerial thermography.
When science meets religion
at this
ancient Greek
site, the two turn out to be on better terms than scholars had originally thought