Sentences with phrase «early inhabitants»

The sequencing of a 10,600 - year - old genome has settled a lengthy legal dispute over who should own the oldest mummy in North America — and given scientists a rare insight into early inhabitants of the Americas.

Zion has proved fruitful for early inhabitants, painters, poets, & recreationists alike.

According to Schopf, the fossils he found in Western Australia indicate that Earth's earliest inhabitants resembled cyanobacteria, single - celled organisms that turn sunlight into energy.

Substantial evidence of earlier inhabitants remain in the remarkable temples and pyramids at Palenque, which looming from the depths of the jungle provide an inspiring insight into the country's rich history, while the calls of the jungle's resident howler monkeys bring you back to the present day.

However, it is believed that the islands early inhabitants were the first to know of its existence, but their fear of spirits that they believe inhabit the caves prevented them from exploring the cave.

Early inhabitants Human occupation of the Muskegon area goes back seven or eight thousand years to the nomadic Paleo - Indian hunters who occupied the area following the retreat of the Wisconsonian glaciations.

It has all the elements — love, hate, duplicity, revenge, murder, infidelity and contains the history of Etruscans and early inhabitants of pre-Roman Italy to set up the reader for the grave goods found in cities of the dead.

A five page excursus reports on attempts to deal with the great ages of the early inhabitants.

Research has determined that early inhabitants of that area were domesticating corn as early as 5000 B.C..

In 1983, he found a broken Clovis point — a type of arrowhead made by some of North America's earliest inhabitants, he said — near the then - undeveloped 143rd Street Metra station.

But in Britain, individuals connected to Beaker pots seem to be a distinct, genetically related group that almost wholly replaced the island's earlier inhabitants.

The earliest inhabitants may have used the cave in different ways, such as to gather materials or butcher animals, saving their cooking for open - air sites, he says.

Valley of Fire State Park See petrified logs dating from the Triassic and sandstone «beehives» resembling apartment buildings that may have provided shelter to the area's early inhabitants, who left petroglyphs on canyon walls.

Researchers already knew that some Europeans of this time had dark skin and blue eyes, but Cheddar Man reveals that previous assumptions that early inhabitants of the British Isles had lighter skin and hair were wrong — and that those traits didn't spread through England until the past 4800 years or so.

Skull shape tells us that some early inhabitants of the Americas kept to themselves, and that South America saw at least two distinct waves of colonisation

Perry suggests in her report that the domestication of condiments — not just staples like corn and the tuber manioc — indicates that early inhabitants had sophisticated palates and agricultural systems.

We do know that the artists were among the earliest inhabitants of southern Africa, the ancestors of the modern - day «San» peoples.

Naia was one of the earliest inhabitants of the Americas and has helped resolve a long - standing question of the link between ancestral Americans and modern Native Americans.

Scholars have come to realize that by devising a way to enrich the soil, the early inhabitants of the Amazon managed to create a foundation for agriculture - based settlements much more populous than scholars had thought possible.

It's a great finale to your journey through the West — as is the nearby Crazy Horse Monument, a memorial to the earliest inhabitants of the nation's heartland.

Yet the geologic evidence suggests that between 5,000 and 7,000 years ago, a far more inviting scene greeted the early inhabitants.

Earth offered a harsh environment for its earliest inhabitants.

One of only three berries native to North America, the lowbush Wild Blueberry was prized by our earliest inhabitants for its taste, nutrition and healing qualities.

Indian lore has it that their forbears began life as animals; the woodchuck was recognized as the «grandfather» of the earliest inhabitants of the area.

By the water's edge, Gerry showed us the remains of a prehistoric cooking pit and explained how the island's early inhabitants had cooked their food in these stone - lined chambers.

You will find history of Palawan and the lives of the early inhabitants story - told in the exhibit.

The Amerindians and Maya were some of the earliest inhabitants, and ruins from the Maya civilization are still being discovered.

You could also climb the «magic mountain» of Tindaya that was considered sacred by the island's earliest inhabitants and remains a place of pilgrimage even today.

Some 20,000 years ago, the Island's earliest inhabitants were native peoples who historians believe used Alcatraz for camping and gathering foods.

Northern Ambergris Caye is separated from the southernmost tip of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula by a small channel that was dug by its earliest inhabitants, the Mayans, to allow direct access to Chetumal Bay without having to travel around the Southern tip of the caye.

Wild game was also plentiful on Ambergris and must have provided these early inhabitants with a rich and varied diet.

«A brief account of some early inhabitants of Santa Cruz Island.»

Of value to the early inhabitants these ponds were a source of fresh water and their connection to the source was of a mystical nature.

Navigation, Trade, and the Tomol These earliest inhabitants exploited the rich marine resources.

Arawak Indian rock drawings decorate the monolithic stones of Ayo, providing evidence of the great importance these rocks held for the Island's early inhabitants.

Enjoy tastings of great wine and food and learn about the early inhabitants of Australia at the Maalinup Aboriginal Gallery on this half - day tour of the Swan Valley.

Enjoy tastings of great wine and food and learn about the early inhabitants of Australia at the Maalinup Aboriginal Gallery on this half - day tour of...

COZUMEL — Called Ah - Cuzamil - Peten (Land of Swallows) by its earliest inhabitants, Cozumel has been a favorite destination for divers since 1961, when Jacques Yves Cousteau's documentary broadcast Cozumel's glorious sea life to the world.

Called Ah - Cuzamil - Peten (Land of Swallows) by its earliest inhabitants, Cozumel has been a favorite destination for divers since 1961, when Jacques Yves Cousteau's documentary broadcast Cozumel's glorious sea life to the world.

In the back remains a small darkroom built in 1971 by an earlier inhabitant, William Wegman, who also left a basketball hoop.