Sentences with phrase «early settlers before»

That's the conclusion of linguists and a geographer, who have together identified 18 Aboriginal stories — many of which were transcribed by early settlers before the tribes that told them succumbed to murderous and disease - spreading immigrants from afar — that they say accurately described geographical features that predated the last post-ice age rising of the seas.

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Early settlers may have floated down the Pacific Coast in canoes before heading 2,000 kilometers east to the remote rock - shelter, or they might have taken an inland route from North America, Denis Vialou of the National Museum of Natural History in Paris and colleagues report in the August Antiquity.

Early settlers may have floated down the Pacific Coast in canoes before heading 2,000 kilometers east to the remote rock shelter, or they might have taken an inland route from North America, archaeologist Denis Vialou of the National Museum of Natural History in Paris and his colleagues report in the August Antiquity.

We were very aware that we were travelling in the footsteps of those that had gone before us - the warring warrior tribes, the explorers, the adventurers and the brave early settlers who had fought their way across the continent, carving this magnificent country out of the wilderness.

Best known as a refuge for Christianity before it was widely accepted, Cappadocia became home to early believers as they fled Roman persecution in the 4th century A.D. Over the next 600 years, these holy settlers would create the region's most notable landmarks, carving out their homes and churches into soft canyon walls to make so - called «fairy chimneys» while building unimaginably complex beehives of humanity.

A handful of early settlers like Cuchifritos (opened 2001), Canada (opened in Lower East Side in 2002), and Reena Spaulings (opened 2003) set up shop in the neighborhood well before the museum's opening.