Sentences with phrase «first archaeological evidence»

It provides the first archaeological evidence for the existence, more than 3 million years ago, of hominid cognitive and motor skills necessary for manufacturing hard stone tools,» the team of archaeologists who reported the findings in the journal, said, in a statement released Thursday.

Anthony and Brown have identified the first archaeological evidence in support of ancient Indo - European myths about young, warlike «wolf - men» who lived outside of society's laws, he says.

The controversial finds, which date to between roughly 3,900 and 3,700 years ago, may provide the first archaeological evidence of adolescent male war bands described in ancient texts.

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First, it utterly lacks historical or archaeological support, and there is an overwhelming body of empirical evidence that refutes it.

No archaeological evidence of Jesus» first - century followers has ever been found.

The archaeological evidence left behind by the first people to settle the Americas tells a confusing story.

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.

Posted on June 17 on the bioRxiv preprint server, the research supports archaeological evidence about the multiple origins of farming, and represents the first detailed look at the ancestry of the individuals behind one of the most important periods in human history — the Neolithic revolution.

This study has gathered together evidence for the presence of beeswax in the pottery vessels of the first farmers of Europe by investigating chemical components trapped in the clay fabric of more than 6,000 potsherds from over 150 Old World archaeological sites.

The study is the first to use the archaeological evidence for parasites in Roman times to assess «the health consequences of conquering an empire.»

Led by the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany, researchers set out to settle the debate as to whether hominin remains in the Grotte du Renne, an archaeological site in Arcy - sur - Cure, France, date to Neanderthal ancestry or whether they indicate the first evidence of modern humans in Europe.

Taken together, the genetic and archaeological evidence then suggests that people first expanded out of Beringia by about 16,000 years ago.

An analysis of canine bones from Zhokhov suggests the dogs there were bred to pull sleds, making this the first evidence — by thousands of years — for dog breeding in the archaeological record.

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.

Although it is difficult to look far back into human history and understand exactly how area rugs were first used, it is safe to assume, based on archaeological evidence, that they have been a part of human life since around the year 3000 B.C..