Sentences with phrase «earliest recorded human»

The team, led by Dr Aimée Little from the Department of Archaeology at the University of York, analysed cremated remains dating from 7530 - 7320 BC — the earliest recorded human burial and grave assemblage.

Archaeologists have shed new light on the belief systems of early Mesolithic hunter - gatherers after analysing cremated remains and artefacts given as grave offerings from the earliest recorded human burial site in Ireland.

«Archaeologists study earliest recorded human burial site in Ireland.»

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A similar revulsion was recorded even earlier by the imperial Roman poet Virgil, who depicted an episode of the Roman civil wars as a victory of human law and ordinary human beings over «every kind of monstrous god and barking Anubis too.»

Like playing a good piano accompaniment, pacing takes talent — speed, strength and an exquisite ability to estimate the time for each early lap, and stick to it rigidly, thus giving the record - breaker - to - be a sort of human clock to guide by.

All non-Africans stem from one major founding population, the studies agree, but earlier human migrations are also recorded in present - day people's DNA, one study finds.

Bone tumors are exceptionally rare finds in the evolutionary fossil and archaeological records of human prehistory, with the earliest known instances, before now, dating to 1,000 to 4,000 years ago.

A record of changing climate in the Olduvai Gorge suggests early humans had to adapt to shifting ecosystems

Research into lethal wounds found on a human skull may indicate one of the first cases of murder in human history — some 430,000 years ago — and offers evidence of the earliest funerary practices in the archaeological record.

While fossil records prove that some anatomically modern human groups reached the Levantine corridor (the modern Middle East) as early as 100,000 years ago, genetic testing indicates that human populations inhabiting the globe today descended from a single group that migrated from Africa only 70,000 years ago — an unexplained gap of 30,000 years.

The South African archaeological record is so important because it shows some of the oldest evidence for modern behavior in early humans.

Australia also experienced record rainfall in early 2012, and while La Niña, a natural variation, was behind much of that, researchers found that human - caused climate change increased the chance of the above - average rainfall by 5 to 15 percent.

«Mastodon discovery shakes up understanding of early humans in the New World: Broken bones and rocks yield evidence that pushes back the record of early humans in North America by more than 100,000 years.»

Scientists have discovered the oldest recorded stone tool ever to be found in Turkey, revealing that humans passed through the gateway from Asia to Europe much earlier than previously thought, approximately 1.2 million years ago.

Utilizing the largest data set of mobile phone records ever analyzed to estimate human mobility, the researchers developed an innovative model that can predict epidemics and provide critical early warning to policy makers.

This pushes back the first recorded case of AIDS in the US by about a decade: the only earlier known case of human HIV infection was in Zaire in 1959.

Dr Wenban - Smith explains the Ebbsfleet area would have been very different from today: «Rich fossilised remains surrounding the elephant skeleton, including pollen, snails and a wide variety of vertebrates, provide a remarkable record of the climate and environment the early humans inhabited.

There are no written records of the horror early humans encountered when the volcano in present - day Lake Toba, Indonesia, erupted more than 70,000 years ago.

Human ancestors have been handy since at least 2.6 million years ago, when the earliest reliably identified stone tools appear in the fossil record at Gona, Ethiopia.

The remains of animals, plants and man found in those earliest records of the human race — the Egyptian catacombs — all spoke of their identity with existing forms, and of the irresistible tendency of organized beings to assume an unalterable character.

For instance, the study suggests that the early human species Australopithecus afarensis may have had greater dexterity than what was required for cutting with a stone, including manipulative and tool - related behaviors that may not have been preserved in the archaeological record.

Dr Louys said the earliest records of humans on East Timor date to around 46,000 years ago, and they lived with the rats for thousands of years.

Williams, Kay and Kirk also collaborated on a related article about to be published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that reviews the early fossil record and anatomical features of anthropoids — the primate group that includes monkeys, apes, and humans.

As far as human records go, the ancient Mayans of South America made some of the earliest mentions of hurricanes in their hieroglyphics.

The Human Fossils Record: Craniodental Morphology of Early Hominids (Genera Australopithecus, Paranthropus, Orrorin) and Overview.

It's cranial capacity was the smallest ever recorded in an adult early human, and at 410 cc it was not much larger than that of a modern chimpanzee.

Early human evolution is characterised by pulsed speciation and dispersal events that can not be explained fully by global or continental paleoclimate records.

Book Review: The Human Fossil Record, Volume Four: Craniodental Morphology of Early Hominids (General Australopithecus, Paranthropus, Orrorin), and Overview by J.H. Schwartz and I. Tattersall.

But as humans organized early medical systems, we see attention to the bitter flavor in almost every culture, from Ayurveda and Chinese medicine, to the original bitter liquids of the Mediterranean (the first record of these is over 2,000 years old).

His Out of Eden Walk attempts to retrace the migratory pathways of our early human ancestors, as discernible from the archaeological record and the emerging science of genography.

The Cave of Hearths, which preserves an incredible record of Early Stone Age human occupation, lies up against the left side of the Makapansgat, a World Heritage Site, with awesome views out across the valley.

The islands have an archaeological record spanning ~ 13,000 years, one of the earliest coastal human sequences in North America [23].

Back in the early 80s, Richard Branson was probably best known for Virgin Records - the legendary record label that signed major names like the Rolling Stones, Janet Jackson and The Human League.

The installation, and accompanying series of public talks, will link together the earliest historical attempts to record and visualize the human pulse and heartbeat — from a record onboard a NASA probe at the edge of the Solar System to recent developments in artificial heart research.

Chopin lived in Vonna - Michell's hometown of Leigh - on - Sea in Essex, England, between 1968 and 1986, and created a large body of pioneering recordings using early tape recorders, studio technologies, and sounds of the manipulated human voice.

That is, the earliest anatomically modern humans had the cognitive capacity for behavioral modernity when their fossils first appeared in the record.

Scientific American: A record of changing climate in the Olduvai Gorge suggests early humans had to adapt to shifting ecosystems.

Thursday, April 14, 2016, 5:30 PM - Greenland's earliest recorded melt shocked scientists this week, while at the same time, a new report ultimately confirms the 97 per cent consensus that human activity is responsible for recent changes in our climate due to global warming.

Human - caused global warming contributes to the summer Greenland warming (Figure 3), which causes snow to melt earlier, which causes decreased local albedo, which contributes to record Greeland ice sheet decline, which further decreases local albedo, which in turn contributes to the Arctic sea ice decline.

During a scorching, record - breaking heatwave earlier this year, the now Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss ridiculed the notion that heat waves and bushfires could be linked to human - caused climate change.

Given that «causes of the earlier warming are less clear ``, our understanding of Earth's climate system is rudimentary at best, and our historical record is laughably brief, it is confounding how the IPCC can be so «extremely» sure «that human influence has been the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century», which is «not statistically significantly different» from the natural warming that occurred between 1910 — 1940.

As The Post's Joby Warrick reported earlier this week, Rep. Raul Grijalva (D - Ariz.), the ranking member of the House Committee on Natural Resources, asked seven universities for detailed records on the funding sources for seven scientists, many of whom are unconvinced that humans are the driving force behind recent climate change.

Earlier this year the National Justice Coalition, a group of leading Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, community and human rights organisations came together to launch a blueprint for changing the record.

«Smarter justice, safer communities» is the headline objective for the Change the Record campaign, launched earlier this year by the National Justice Coalition, a group of leading Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, community and human rights organisations.

The role of administrative record lnkage in creating trajectories of early human development