Sentences with phrase «early farmers»

Were early farmers in the area forced to flee as their world disappeared underwater?

Right now scientists can study the DNA evidence on a large scale and say that the two groups of early farmers weren't related.

This could help to explain why early farmers seemed often to be on the move.

His DNA, and the DNA of three other individuals from a second Iranian site, revealed that there were two different groups of early farmers.

The high «genetic continuity» in East Asia is in stark contrast to most of Western Europe, where sustained migrations of early farmers from the Levant overwhelmed hunter - gatherer populations.

Piperno and her colleagues began using new techniques to identify early domesticates using microscopic plant fossils, called phytoliths, as well as starch grains, both of which are often preserved on the stone tools used by early farmers in the humid tropics.

Now, a study in PNAS journal suggests they descend from early farmers who mixed with local hunters before becoming isolated for millennia.

«We believe that as early farmers selected larger seeds to eat and plant, they unconsciously selected for increased sugar import into these seeds by SWEET4c» Carnegie's Davide Sosso, the lead author of this study, explained.

Hunter - gatherers may have brought agricultural products to the British Isles by trading wheat and other grains with early farmers from the European mainland.

Early farmers domesticated unappetizing teosinte (left in inset), transforming it into edible form (right).

Early farmers did not use the plough, and that meant constantly shifting cultivation to the most fertile areas.

A common genetic origin for early farmers from Mediterranean Cardial and Central European LBK cultures.

Before early farmers started migrating from the Middle East to Europe, European wildcats (Felis silvestris silvestris) carried one mitotype, called clade I, the researchers found.

Before early farmers started migrating from the Middle East to Europe, European wildcats (Felis silvestris silvestris) carried one mitotype.

Early farmers brought domesticated cats with them into Europe from the Middle East by 6,400 years ago, analysis of cat remains suggests.

A rival hypothesis — that early farmers living in Anatolia (modern Turkey) about 8000 years ago were the original PIE speakers — is not ruled out by the new analyses, most agree.

In the last 10,000 years, house sparrows accompanied early farmers on migrations into Europe.

However, the close association between early farmers and the honeybee remained uncertain.

For a long time scientists and clinicians thought the main advantage in Europe was to enable early farmers to avoid the consequences of calcium deficiency; milk is an amazing source of calcium and there is a bit of vitamin D in there too (vitamin D is necessary for calcium absorption).

Then, as early farmers planted the seeds and tended the plants, there was a gradual evolution by human selection to larger, more pendant pods.

The Zagros early farmers were instead more closely related to nearby hunter - gatherers who lived in the region before the Neolithic.

Cats probably started taming themselves about 9,500 years ago by hunting vermin, infesting early farmers» grain stores and feasting on food scraps.

A study released in February says early farmers and cooks were spiking their food with chilies about 6,000 years ago: «Probably the earliest spice plant found thus far in the Americas,» says Linda Perry, an archaeobiologist working with the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. «It would have made a diet of roots, tubers, and corn taste a little better.»

Recent genetic studies on ancient hunter - gatherers and early farmer remains have suggested a massive migration of people to Europe coinciding with the spread of farming.

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.

An international consortium led by researchers from the University of Tübingen and Harvard Medical School analyzed ancient human genomes from a ~ 7,000 - year - old early farmer from the LBK culture from Stuttgart in Southern Germany, a ~ 8,000 - year - old hunter - gatherer from the Loschbour rock shelter in Luxembourg, and seven ~ 8,000 - year - old hunter - gatherers from Motala in Sweden.

For rice, barley, and wheat, early farmers got the stems that turn into flowers to branch more, so ultimately more grains were produced per stalk.

These are geographic zones where a distinct range of edible plants were domesticated and developed by early farmers thousands of years ago, to become the food crops we know and love today.

«Early farmers exploited beehive products at least 8,500 years ago.»

Instead, it seems like early farmers and hunter - gatherers had deep - rooted genetic differences.

The findings support previous studies of other early farmer and hunter - gatherer populations in Germany and elsewhere, says Joachim Burger of Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz in Germany.

While the highland bogs may have been created by early farmers cutting down trees and burning the grasses, lowland bogs formed naturally.

This genetic legacy of early farmers persists, although of course our genetic make - up subsequently has been reshaped by many millennia of other population movements and intermixing of various groups,» concluded Dr Hellenthal.

In red are Neolithic sites with genomes that are ancestral to all European early farmers.

So how did early farmers figure out that spreading manure was a key to farming success?

It is the only survivor of the languages spoken in southwestern Europe six or seven thousand years ago when early farmers arrived from eastern Mediterranean, bringing their technology and Indo - European languages with them.

The resulting linguistic family tree showed that Celtic speakers — possibly early farmers — migrated from continental Europe to Wales, Ireland, and Scotland in one wave perhaps 6,000 years ago.

The environment may have played a significant, if serendipitous, role in the transition through inducing phenotypic plasticity that gave early farmers a head start.»

The site provides researchers with a remarkably well - preserved example of a small - scale irrigation system that early farmers devised to grow grain crops in a climate that historically receives less than 3 inches (66 millimeters) of annual rainfall — about one - fifth of the water deemed necessary to cultivate even the most drought - tolerant strains of millet.

Here's a short news summary from New Scientist about the theory Early farmers warmed Earth's climate.

In the East, early farmers focused on goats as well as barley and wheat.

Paradoxically, while archaeology shows that Europe's earliest farmers hailed from the Near East, populations living in that region today do not particularly resemble them genetically.

The fact that it looks more like corn under these conditions may help to explain how teosinte came to be selected by early farmers who turned it into one of the most important staple crops in the world.

About 10,000 to 9,500 years ago, African wildcats (Felis silvestris lybica) may have tamed themselves by hunting rodents and eating scraps from the homes of early farmers in the Middle East.

Wild cats proved to be effective rodent control for early farmers.

According to my newly - purchased bag from Arrowhead Mills, it's «an ancient cousin to modern wheat and was one of the first grains to be grown by early farmers as long ago as 5,000 BC.»

Early farmers brought cats with them to Europe from the Middle East by 6,400 years ago.

The findings, which the team reports in two online papers today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, also appear to discount a leading hypothesis for why early farmers would bother domesticating the unappealing teosinte plant in the first place.

And although this ancient plant was probably tough on the teeth, the find suggests that early farmers did indeed eat it — rather than turn it into alcoholic beverages, as some researchers have suggested.