Sentences with phrase «by modern humans»

In his recent study, he shows that these tasks were taken over in part by modern humans in the period between 45,000 and 12,000 years ago.

The resulting foot was weird - looking by modern human standards.

Denisovans may have roamed vast expanses of Asia with tools as sophisticated as those made by modern humans at the time.

The team believes the earlier population increases resulted from the first peopling by modern humans of vast continents, where plenty of resources were available.

The artifacts are similar to tools used by modern humans at contemporaneous sites in eastern Africa.

«A lot of what we thought was invented by modern humans probably goes back much further in time.»

Significantly, the research paper says there is strong evidence to suggest that Neanderthals disappeared at different times across Europe rather than being rapidly replaced by modern humans.

Neanderthals created artifacts similar to ones made at about the same time by modern humans arriving in Europe, such as body ornaments and small blades.

There is evidence that Neanderthals in Europe used body ornamentation around 40,000 to 45,000 years ago, but many researchers have suggested this was inspired by modern humans who at the time had just arrived in Europe.

Dating the timing of the replacement of local Neandertal populations by modern humans in western Eurasia at the dawn of the Upper Palaeolithic remains If you're an older woman dating a younger man, is it doomed from the start or will you be happily ever after?

When Bertrand Russell stated at Columbia University in 1950 that Christian love or compassion was the thing most needed by modern humans, he moved revealingly close to declaring intellectual bankruptcy on his and many others» behalf.

All three forms of alleged certainty have been considerably weakened by the modern human sciences — the certainty of the institution by historical scholarship and the social sciences, the certainty of the text by the findings of biblical criticism, and the certainty of inner experience by psychology and the sociology of knowledge.

In talks last week at the annual meeting of The American Society of Human Genetics here, researchers announced that some «Neandertal» genetic variants inherited by modern humans outside of Africa are not peculiarly Neandertal genes, but represent the ancestral human condition.

Homo floresiensis, the mysterious and diminutive species found in Indonesia in 2003, is tens of thousands of years older than originally thought — and may have been driven to extinction by modern humans.

But was this Neandertal artistic creativity equivalent to the art and symbolism practiced by modern humans?

This suggests one obvious conclusion, says Shannon McPherron at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany: «Neanderthals were being influenced by the modern humans.»

Although H. pylori probably arose in Africa and was carried by modern humans as they settled around the world, it has been a mystery how different types of the microbe spread globally and how they are related to each other.

And then there were slender stone blades, bone points and beads — artifacts made almost exclusively by modern humans of the Upper Paleolithic tradition.

Renne said that the site was too disturbed by modern human activity to yield conclusions; for the evidence to be convincing, Gonzalez would have to find such prints in a completely undisturbed context.

Archaeologist Daniel Adler from the University of Connecticut, working with David Lordkipanidze and Nikolaz Tushabramishvili of the Georgian State Museum and their colleagues at the University of Haifa, Hebrew University, and Harvard University, analyzed animal remains in a rock shelter in the Republic of Georgia that was used by Neanderthals and later by modern humans.

Now a reanalysis of this deciphered DNA has found evidence of contamination by modern human genetic material in one project, challenging the original results.

Neanderthal (top) and reindeer (bottom) jawbones from the Les Rois cave show similar cut marks (details at right), suggesting that both were butchered by modern humans.

But researchers have concluded that these artefacts must have been created by modern humans who were spreading across Europe after their arrival from Africa.

Now, scientists are posing questions that could only be contemplated by modern humans like noticing how you feel when you look out your window at a concrete wall compared to a beautiful meadow, ocean, or sunset.

The team concludes that the archaeological levels must have become mixed over thousands of years and that younger artifacts made by modern humans may have moved down into levels long thought to be associated with Neandertals.

The discovery of Levallois implements with both the earliest H. sapiens on record, at Jebel Irhoud, and the oldest known H. sapiens outside of Africa, at Misliya, could be taken to indicate Levallois tools were invented by modern humans, and that they may have facilitated the spread of H. sapiens out of Africa.

Neanderthals are thought to have emerged a few hundred thousand years ago and were eventually replaced by modern humans.

The region of the Middle East represents a major corridor for hominin migrations during the Pleistocene and has been occupied at different times by both modern humans and Neandertals.

Dating the timing of the replacement of local Neandertal populations by modern humans in western Eurasia at the dawn of the Upper Palaeolithic remains The Subaru Impreza (スバル ・ インプレッサ) is a compact family car that has been manufactured since 1992 by Subaru, introduced as a replacement

A member of the now - extinct hominid species Homo erectus engraved a geometric design on a sea shell nearly half a million years ago, long before the earliest evidence of comparable etchings made by modern humans, researchers say.

Although Châtelperronian artifacts closely resemble those made by modern humans, many researchers have attributed them to Neandertals because they have sometimes been found with Neandertal fossils.

«Until this discovery, it was assumed that comparable engravings were only made by modern humans (Homo sapiens) in Africa, starting about 100,000 years ago,» says lead author José Joordens, researcher at the Faculty of Archaeology at Leiden University.

«Some of the artifacts found right under the ash were almost certainly made by modern humans,» says John Hoffecker, a University of Colorado archaeologist working at the site.

The oldest known engravings in the world were thought to date back 100,000 years and have been made by modern humans.

«The only manner to test it is to find direct evidences of modern human eating marks on Neanderthal remains, such as cut or broken marks on bones in... artifacts made by modern humans,» explained Martínez - Navarro.