Sentences with phrase «first prehistoric human»

This publishing spotlight on the first prehistoric human form to be discovered (back in 1856) is appropriate, because it touches on the hottest topic in palaeoanthropology: the origin of modern humans.

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Encased in ice for 4,000 years, a clump of prehistoric human hair gave up its secrets to the University of Copenhagen's Eske Willerslev, the first researcher to sequence an ancient human genome.

«This is the first genome - wide data on prehistoric humans from the hot tropics, and was made possible by improved methods for preparing skeletal remains» says Ron Pinhasi at University College Dublin, a senior author of the study.

Some of the first research on the importance of acoustics to prehistoric peoples was done by Iegor Reznikoff, an anthropologist of sound at Université Paris Ouest, who in the 1980s visited cave paintings and carvings in southern France that are about 25,000 years old, among the oldest known human art.

The remnants of a remarkably petite skull belonging to one of the first human ancestors to walk on two legs have revealed the great physical diversity among these prehistoric populations.

Astronomers are exploring what might be described as the first astronomical observing tool, potentially used by prehistoric humans 6,000 years ago.

For the purposes of this article, Prehistoric Britain is Britain during the period between the first arrival of humans on the land mass now known as Great Need to Register or Re-register your Vespa?