Sentences with phrase «find human bones»

Did the archeologists find any human bones?

Master and Aja were tipped off about the cemetery in 2013, when a retired Israeli surveyor insisted he'd found human bones and pottery just outside Ashkelon's gates during a construction project decades ago.

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Brand New New fossils bringing «Hobbit humans» to life New bones attributed to Ho - mo floresiensis — aka the «Hobbit Human» — along with other recent findings, are helping to reveal what members of this species looked like, how they behaved and their origins.

Some of them were of the bones of the hand, others of coins and keys photographed through the opaque walls of a leather pocket - book, all clearly demonstrating that he had found some strange new rays which had the amazing property of penetrating as opaque an object as the human body and revealing on a photographic plate the skeleton of a living person.

This belief in the ability of the human body to be filled with the divine is one reason that we revere the mortal remains of saints, and find them to be miracle - working (as with Elisha's bones, 2 Kings 13:21).

’16 The prophet was inspired to engender new hope in them by relating a vision in which he found himself set down in a valley of dry human bones, the grim memorial of some disastrous battle long before.

If we're finding dinosaur bones and ancient human bones, there is more support for this research than there is against it.

They found a chariot wheel of the type used in Egypt at the time of the exodus at the bottom of the Red Sea, with human bones and horse bones.

During my studies I have found that in 1614 over 300 humans conspired to create these fake bones to fool scientists, then used heavy earth moving machinery such as tractors to bury these fakes all over the planet.

The turkey, native to Latin America, has been part of the human diet for many thousands of years, based on bone remains found in Mexico.

It makes up about 30 % of all the protein in the human body, and is found in your bones, tendons, ligaments, connective tissues and skin, and plays various roles in your overall health.

This specific chemical is naturally found inside of the human bones.

Abdullahi said items found in the camp and shrines were three pump action guns, eight empty cartridges, human skulls and some bones.

A single bone found in the Saudi Arabian desert is at least 85,000 years old, and may shed light on the route early humans took out of Africa

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.

Even more astounding, Overstreet also found stone tools and cut marks on the bones, offering archaeologists a rare glimpse into the brief period when humans and mammoths crossed paths.

The luck continued when Viola's colleagues found that the bone contained well - preserved DNA, and they sequenced its genome to the same accuracy as that achieved for contemporary human genomes (Q. Fu et al.Nature 514, 445 — 449; 2014).

Dr. Zubair, medical and scientific director of the Cell Therapy Laboratory at Mayo Clinic in Florida, says the experiment will be the first one Mayo Clinic has conducted in space and the first to use these human stem cells, which are found in bone marrow.

Archaeologists have found clever ways to uncover ancient humans» impact on today's jungles, from ancient collagen in bones to laser scanning by aircraft.

Neuroscientist Weems applies the scientific method to the human funny bone to find out what makes us laugh.

Hardy examined the wear patterns and residue on the tools and found that although modern humans had a larger range of implements, both groups engaged in similar activities, such as using tree resin to bind stone points to wooden handles and crafting tools from bone and wood.

Although some say it's hard to identify our species, Homo sapiens, by a single bone, the findings appear unimpeachable, says John Shea, an anthropologist at the State University of New York in Stony Brook who studies human origins, but wasn't involved in the study.

The first Neandertal fossils were discovered in 1829 in Engis, Belgium, and in 1848 at Forbes» Quarry, Gibraltar, but were not recognized as an early human species until after the 1856 discovery of «Neandertal 1» — a 40,000 - year - old specimen, including a skullcap and various bones, found at the Kleine Feldhofer Grotte in the Neander Valley near Düsseldorf, Germany.

This finger bone (four sides shown) represents the oldest directly dated human fossil found outside of Africa and the Levant.

Marrying that DNA data with archaeological findings, the context in which the bones were discovered, for example, may tell researchers more about when, where and how humans first engaged with plants and animals.

Shortly after the discovery of the human skeleton in February 2012 the site of the find was looted; unknown divers stole all the bones lying around on the ground of the cave.

The likeliest place for human - Neanderthal romance was the Middle East, where bones of both humans and Neanderthals have been found.

«DNA gets degrades very quickly in tropical climates, however we found that in the very dense inner ear bone, called the petrous bone, DNA is well preserved even under such adverse environmental conditions for thousands of years,» says Cosimo Posth, doctoral student at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena.

By comparing our DNA with that of our big - boned relatives, Pääbo has already found spots in the modern human genome that appeared after we diverged from our Neanderthal cousins and evolved apart.

Evidence of butchery and fire on animal bones found near hobbit remains suggests that these early humans enjoyed a good barbecue, usually of baby elephants, huge rats, and deadly Komodo dragons that they hunted and killed.

«Human bones in south Mexico: Stalagmite reveals their age as 13,000 years old: Researchers date prehistoric skeleton found in a cave in Yucatán.»

When Skinner and his colleagues looked at the metacarpals of early human species and neanderthals — who also used stone flakes for tasks like scraping and butchering — they found bone ends that were shaped like modern human bones, and unlike ape bones.

Someone mixed human and orangutan bones, treated them, and planted them to create Piltdown Man, a «missing link» between humans and apes found in 1912.

«These cells will be a key tool for finding ways to stimulate and control human bone growth for regenerative medicine or bone repair,» Hsiao said.

Finding larger human bones will be a feat.

In experiments in mice and human cells, researchers found that blocking CXCR4 — a so - called homing receptor protein molecule that helps T cells mature and attracts blood cells to the bone marrow — halted disease progression in bone marrow and spleen tissue within two weeks.

Now, a University of Missouri researcher and her international team of colleagues have found a new hand bone from a human ancestor who roamed the earth in East Africa approximately 1.42 million years ago.

To test this idea, the researchers utilized two mouse models of human breast cancer metastasis and found dormant disseminated tumor cells residing upon the membrane microvasculature of lung, bone marrow and brain tissue.

In a study published last year in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, Hopkins and other scientists measured the stable isotopes of carbon and nitrogen in the hair and bone of Yosemite bears over the past century and found that since 1999, the proportion of human - derived food in bear diets has dramatically declined.

He says he and Bogaerts also found two human skeletons; the bones appear to date back about 12,000 years, placing them among the oldest human remains in the Americas.

In an analysis of the remarkably complete hands, paleoanthropologist Tracy Kivell of the University of Kent in the United Kingdom found that bones in the wrist were shaped like those in modern humans, suggesting that the palm at the base of the thumb was quite stiff.

The hypothesis on dietary differences between modern humans and Neandertals is based on the study of animal bones found in caves occupied by these two types of hominids, which can provide clues about their diet, but it is always difficult to exclude large predators living at the same time as being responsible for at least part of this accumulation.

But a small group of experts now says that the fracture patterns on the bones, found during highway construction near San Diego, California, must have been left by humans pounding them with stones found nearby.

That's where a team of archaeologists has found ancient stone tools and butchered mastodon bones that have been reliably dated to 14,550 years ago — more than 1000 years before scientists once thought humans first reached the New World.

New radiocarbon dates for the human fossils and a mammoth bone found at the site provided a more precise date for the Sunghir burials than was previously available.

A new analysis of cross sections of three toe bones found that the cortical bone — the dense outer layer — wasn't buttressed in the same way as it is in the toes of modern humans.

Now, a study uses a new method that relies on ancient proteins to identify and directly date Neandertal bone fragments from Grotte du Renne and finds that the connection between the archaic humans and the artifacts is real.

In 2015, Tomasetti and Vogelstein published a widely covered Science paper that found that R mutations explain the dramatic variation in cancer incidence among human tissues better than hereditary or environmental factors — helping to illuminate why tissues in the lung or colon give rise to cancer far more frequently than tissues in bone or brain, for example.

In February, U.K. — based Orthomimetics began a human trial of one such implant, built from the protein collagen (a building block of many body tissues) and the mineral calcium phosphate (found in bone).

At the same time, Stiner and her colleagues found, the locals started eating fewer tortoises and mollusks and more hares, as evidenced by the bones found at human settlements.