Sentences with phrase «by bone fragments»

This dating to before Abraham's time seems to be supported by bone fragments and other archaeological remains.

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These images are then compared, which helps to eliminate the background effect caused by the product itself and improves the detection of lower density foreign bodies such as fan bones in chicken, bone fragments in meat, or glass and stones in added value meat products.

To that end, Oxford grad student Samantha Brown reported in a poster that she discovered a human bone fragment by using a new technique, called ZooMS, to scan 2315 bones from the cave for uniquely human proteins.

The bone fragment, which comes from the famous archaeological cave site of Krapina, contains by far the earliest bone tumor ever identified in the archaeological record.

Fossilized bone fragments found in the same sedimentary layers as the Dmanisi artifacts are too weathered to be identified as belonging to any one species, so it is impossible to say for sure whether the tools were made by H. erectus.

First, they salvaged DNA fragments degraded down to as few as 30 base pairs (by comparison, fragments from the frozen horse bone averaged 78 base pairs).

By studying avian bone fragments, James and husband Storrs Olson, both of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, have pieced together a picture of bird life before the first Polynesian settlers arrived sometime between a.d. 400 and 600.

In addition, spine injuries are often caused by a crushing or twisting motion, so there may be bone fragments floating around and compromised blood flow to the region.

There, the bone fragments of large salmon, migrating from marine water to their freshwater spawning places, were found in the Middle Palaeolithic archaeological layers, dated to around 42 to 48,000 years ago, and probably deposited by Neandertals.

This study reveals that the small bone fragments were created during drought periods by weathering and erosion of bones disintegrating at the surface.

Pääbo created it by sequencing DNA from fragments of bone (most of it from the Vindija cave in Croatia) to get 3 billion Neanderthal base pairs essentially uncontaminated by human DNA or by microbes.

The realignment process was driven by bone growth, which acted like a mechanical jack to generate the opposing forces required to straighten the two bone fragments.

They started by removing all living cells from donor bone fragments, so that the tissue regeneration could be accomplished only by the stem cells.

As they analyzed a pair of 66 - to 100 - million - year - old plesiosaur skeletons found near Hokkaido, Japan, the researchers realized the fossilized bones of the toothy, quad - flippered marine reptiles * were surrounded by fossilized shell fragments from provannids, a type of tiny snail.

UA Museum of the North research assistant Heather MacFarlane shows off one of the dinosaur bone fragments discovered in Denali National Park in July 2016 by museum researchers working with the park's paleontology staff.

By sequencing a remarkably complete genome from a 50,000 - year - old bone fragment of a female Neandertal found in Vindija Cave in Croatia, researchers report a new trove of gene variants that living people outside of Africa obtained from Neandertals.

«Discovered in 1992 during construction work to expand an expressway, the bone fragments «show clear signs of having been deliberately broken by humans with manual dexterity,» lead author Steve Holen asserted.

Kahlke comments as follows: «Among others, this bone fragment is presented as part of the archeological study refuted by us — and it was demonstrably stolen from our excavation in 2009.»

The benches had been removed and the bodies reassembled: men, women and small children laid in rows of skulls and spines, femurs, fragments of cloth stuck to mummified remains, many of the adults missing feet, all missing bones that had been carried off by scavenging dogs.

Both stick and bone fragments can easily become lodged between two teeth and not be noticed by the dog's owners.

Fresh bones with meat and cartilage may be easier on the teeth, but should be used with caution because of the risk of bacterial contamination or ingestion of sharp bone fragments by aggressive chewers.