Sentences with phrase «early archaeological evidence»

Early archaeological evidence of the Mayan dynasty dates back to 750 BC.

«Considered in total, this study provides important early archaeological evidence for meat eating, hunting and scavenging behaviors - cornerstone adaptations that likely facilitated brain expansion in human evolution, movement of hominins out of Africa and into Eurasia, as well as important shifts in our social behavior, anatomy and physiology,» Ferraro said.

The earliest archaeological evidence that I could dig up dated to A.D. 595, when chiles associated with cacao seeds were found in the Cerén archaeological site in El Salvador.

The earliest archaeological evidence of our relationship with cats is a kitten buried beside a human on the island of Cyprus about 9,500 years ago.

That is later than the earliest archaeological evidence for dogs in both places, which means modern dogs share an ancestor that may in fact be younger than the dogs that had already inhabited both Europe and the Far East during the earlier Stone Age period, the Paleolithic.

But the earliest archaeological evidence for crop cultivation in China is 11,000 years old, suggesting that farming was slow to emerge from ancient traditions of plant use.

«Earliest archaeological evidence of human ancestors hunting and scavenging.»

The earliest archaeological evidence for dingoes in Australia is 3500 years old.

This is important because it provides the earliest archaeological evidence of this type of resource transport behavior in the human lineage.»

No written records predate the arrival of Spanish explorers in the Americas, but the earliest archaeological evidence for maize domestication dates back around 8,700 years.

Not exact matches

This charge is simply not true, as there is both philological and archaeological evidence for knowledge and use of this animal in the early second millennium BC and even earlier.

Indeed archaeological evidence suggests that reverence for the female as the source of life was of primary importance in the earliest Indian cultures.

So you take what the early church fathers, the ones trying to legitimize their religion as much as possible, the ones saying that all the similarities are products of the devil, and just take their word rather than actual archaeological evidence and anthropological study?

Both volumes were cautious in their use of archaeological evidence, and both were less confident than either Noth or Bright as to what could be known about early Israelite history.

Second, while the debate may seem to be about the relevance of archaeology for understanding ancient Israel's origins and early history the divisive issue is not the relevance of archaeology but the way archaeological evidence is interpreted.

zoro dates to (at the very earliest — 1200 b.c. even thou i know its from 500 b.c.) 500-1200 b.c. while the main gods in the hindu myths are from 1500 — 5000 b.c. and those dates are supported by archaeological evidence.

On the Pacific coast of Chiapas, Mexico, a Mokaya archaeological site provides evidence of the beverages dating even earlier, to 1900 BCE.

The fortuitous finding of Capsicum species in these pots provides the earliest evidence of chili consumption in well - dated Mesoamerican archaeological contexts.

This is congruent with the earliest osteological evidence for the disease in the archaeological records dated to 2000 BC from India.

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.

That's clearly at odds with archaeological evidence of earlier settlements in the Americas, but Hey says that his analysis simply gives the most likely date.

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

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 archaeological evidence suggests these early humans were developing significant new behaviours.

Together with new radiometric dates and the existing archaeological evidence, the results, presented here on 6 August at the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America, suggest the following timeline: A moist climate from 9000 to 6000 years ago supported early farmers.

Taken together, the genetic and archaeological evidence now strongly suggests that ancient mariners from northeast Asia could well have explored the coast of the Americas at least 12,000 or 13,000 years ago, and conceivably earlier.

Lead author Abidemi Babatunde Babalola, a recent graduate of Rice with a Ph.D. in anthropology and a visiting fellow at Harvard University, came across evidence of early glassmaking during archaeological excavations at Igbo Olokun, located on the northern periphery of Ile - Ife in southwestern Nigeria.

Forthcoming in the Journal of Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, the study offers the earliest known archaeological evidence for human construction of large - scale levees and other flood - control systems in China.

Catherine Brahic notes in her article about the origins of cooking that the earliest confirmed archaeological evidence of fire at...

The earliest evidence for cheese making comes from 7,000 - year - old archaeological sites in Poland, where milk fat remains were found in holed ceramic containers that could have served as rudimentary strainers.

That and other discoveries led Dolores Piperno, an archaeobotanist at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and her co-workers to begin searching for archaeological evidence of the earliest maize in the Balsas River region.

Fullagar predicts that the technique of examining the edges of tools for evidence of ancient food processing will allow study of other cases of early agriculture which do not leave archaeological clues such as mounds or seeds.

Unlike early human hunter - gatherer groups, Neanderthals concentrated almost entirely on hunting big game, as evidenced by the abundance of large animal bones in Neanderthal archaeological sites.

A reassessment of the archaeological context of the specimen is consistent with the morphological evidence and suggest that early hominins were occupying this region by at least 2 Ma.

In contradiction to this theory is archaeological evidence to suggest early modern humans had already expanded beyond Africa by this time (22) and that the eruption of the YTT did not disturb the behavior of populations inhabiting peninsular India (12).

These results support previously published archaeological evidence for stone tool use in australopiths and provide skeletal evidence that our early ancestors used human - like hand postures much earlier and more frequently than previously considered.

Sites in Alaska (East Beringia) are where some of the earliest evidence has been found of Paleo - Indians, followed by archaeological sites in northern British Columbia...

While the Bible, plainly read, argues for an early - date Exodus c 1446BC, some scholars claim that there is a lack of archaeological evidence to support No Proof for the Exodus?

The earliest archaeological artifacts in Iran were found in the Kashafrud and Ganj Par sites that are thought to date back to 100,000 years ago in the The Evidence for a Recent Dating for Adam, 14,000 to 15,000 years ago

The latest archaeological evidence suggests that dogs were domesticated as early as 26,000 years ago.

The island scrub jay was first described by American ornithologist Henry Wetherbee Henshaw in 1886 [3] and an archaeological specimen at site SCRI - 192 dating from 1780's -1812 on Santa Cruz Island is the earliest evidence of the bird in the historic period.