Sentences with phrase «by early humans»

The stone tools used appear to have been made by early humans.
The authors seem to believe the probability of hunting by early humans to be minimal, even though much of the evidence is highly ambiguous.
The cave is part of a complex of prehistoric caves along the mountain, which show successive periods of occupation by early human species.
The Paleo diet is a based on only consuming the types of foods eaten by early humans before mass agriculture, such as meats, vegetables, fruits and fish.
Scrapes and grooves, supposedly cut into fossil bones by early human ancestors, are nearly indistinguishable from marks left by crocodiles» gnashing teeth, according to a new study.
«However, when I searched for new research on evidence of use of marine food by early humans, I noticed that over and over, the traces of it, shells, were accompanied by ochre.
Archaeologists have discovered the oldest stone tools used by early humans in Kenya.
New research published in the Journal of Archaeological Science by a team led by paleoanthropologist April Nowell of the University of Victoria reveals surprisingly sophisticated adaptations by early humans living 250,000 years ago in a former oasis near Azraq, Jordan.
New research led by University of Victoria's April Nowell reveals surprisingly sophisticated adaptations by early humans living 250,000 years ago in...
An Ice Age paleontological - turned - archaeological site in San Diego, Calif., preserves 130,000 - year - old bones and teeth of a mastodon that show evidence of modification by early humans.
The first person in each group was taught by archaeologists how to make artifacts called Oldowan tools, which include fairly simple stone flakes that were manufactured by early humans beginning about 2.5 million years ago.
Describing the find at a meeting of the Society for Vertebrate Paleontology in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, last month, Shimada speculated that the ancient tooth might have been washed downstream to Nebraska by floods, or carried as a ritual object by early humans.
«Giant prehistoric elephant slaughtered by early humans
The Paleolithic diet, or caveman diet, a weight - loss craze in which people emulate the diet of plants and animals eaten by early humans during the Stone Age, gives modern calorie - counters great freedom because those ancestral diets likely differed substantially over time and space, according to researchers at Georgia State University and Kent State University.
«This new study, based on hard evidence, makes it clear that changes in late Pleistocene climate had a major impact on the late Pleistocene megafauna of Australia, adding even more evidence to challenge the imaginative a priori assumption that «blitzkrieg» by early humans caused the extinction of this continent's lost megafauna,» said Michael Archer, a paleontologist with the University of New South Wales.
The original dogs were probably orphaned wolf pups adopted by early humans.
The newly developed method, which saves time and money, will first be used to study obsidian tools made by early humans, including Neanderthals and Homo erectus, tens of thousands of years ago.
When talking about the reasons for domesticating animals, why assume that dogs were not eaten by early humans (28 May, p 32)?
The wedge is used for parting or separating materials, and its first use by early humans might have been in skinning animals — separating a hide from flesh.
The earliest work in this exhibition is a stone shaped like a human face that was picked up by early human ancestors 3m years ago.
When talking about the reasons for domesticating animals, why assume that dogs were not eaten by early humans (28 May,...
Studying dental plaque from a 1.2 million year old hominin (early human species), recovered by the Atapuerca Research Team in 2007 in Sima del Elefante in northern Spain, archaeologists extracted microfossils to find the earliest direct evidence of food eaten by early humans.
Until now the oldest stone tools made by early humans were dated back to 2.6 million years and were discovered in Ethiopia.
The table below summarizes the results of a comparison among recommended paleo menus, recommended plant - based menus, and a true Paleolithic diet eaten by early humans.
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