Sentences with phrase «for ancient bones»

Mark Collard from Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada, and his colleagues studied carbon - 14 dates for ancient bones, wood and cereal grains from locations across Great Britain.

«It's addictive,» she says, scanning the ground for ancient bone.

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Realizing its potential anthropological significance, Kennedy turned the bone over to experts at the Smithsonian Museum and the University of Florida, who have now been able to confirm that this really is authentically ancient, and not just a clever forgery (making counterfeit mammoth engravings was a big thing in the 19th century, for whatever reason).

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

We've been excavating a site on the beach about 10 meters from the high tide line for about 10 years, finding stone tools and ancient mammal bones and teeth.

Since then, he has become the go - to guy for anyone trying to identify a deposit or scar on a bone fossil that might suggest an ancient ailment.

Iain McKechnie and Dana Lepofsky examine ancient herring fish bones that tell a fascinating story about how gigantic herring fisheries were for thousands of years in the Pacific Northwest.

Deep in a sinkhole, buried in a pile of sand and mastodon dung, was a small, ancient knife used for hunting and cutting carcass meat from the bone.

Collecting and cataloging fossil bones, the heart of vertebrate paleontology, has been primarily a historical enterprise, one of unearthing ancient information and looking for patterns.

Johannes Krause and Svante Pääbo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, zeroed in on mitochondrial DNA (which is passed down intact from a woman to her children) preserved in the ancient bone.

Begun was looking for ancient hominid bones when he spotted the teeth trapped beneath a rhino's shoulder blade.

Conventional techniques for recovering ancient human DNA typically require the destruction of bone or tooth tissue during analysis, and this has been a cause of concern for many Native and indigenous communities.

New techniques (some developed in the last two to three years) for analyzing fragile DNA from ancient bones offer genetic snapshots of domestication as it played out long ago.

To collect a few milligrams of his bone powder for analysis, scientists in the Natural History Museum's ancient DNA lab drilled a tiny, 2 mm wide hole into the ancient skull.

It had been a different story at RAS's zoological museum a few days earlier, where she wasn't allowed to sample the bones she had come for because they were already covered with drill marks from other researchers who, like her, hoped to mine the relatively small number of ancient polar bear samples to reveal their evolutionary history.

In a fume hood in a lab designated just for ancient DNA work, she cleaned the bones and scraped off the outer layers to get rid of as much DNA contamination as possible before grinding up a portion of each of the bones and conducting the DNA extraction.

Herb Maschner, an Arctic archaeologist at the University of South Florida in Tampa, agrees and says the careful excavation methods and analysis serve as a good example of what archaeologists need to do to answer questions about ancient people living in central Alaska where the conditions for preserving bones and artifacts are «notoriously» bad.

For years, Alter and her colleagues have meticulously reconstructed the history of the species using subfossils — ancient bones that, unlike true fossils, are not yet fully mineralized and still contain minute traces of DNA.

Why market a boring old herbal remedy containing something related to the weed milk - vetch when you can squint sideways at the Linnaean name of its family of plants, Astragalus, ignore the fact that «astragalus» is Ancient Greek for «ankle bone», and call it «Astral Fruit ``?

Accessing Ancient Genomes — New techniques and very old bones pushed back the limits of genome sequencing for our early ancestors.

New techniques and very old bones overcome the limits of genome sequencing for prehistoric horses, ancient cave bears, and even our own early ancestors.

Excavated by a team of researchers led by D'Andrea of Simon Fraser, the bones analyzed for this study were recovered from the kitchen and living floors of an ancient farming community known as Mezber.

The key lies in organic materials found in fossil bones, which contain evidence for how ancient ecosystems functioned, according to a new study available online and in the September issue of the Journal of Herpetology.

Indeed, in a 2009 analysis of DNA from the bones of nearly 90 ancient horses dated from about 12,000 to 1000 years ago, researchers found genetic evidence for bay and black coat colors but no sign of the spotted variety, suggesting that the spotted horse could have been the figment of some artist's imagination.

«For example, when the skull has been shattered, because I am used to putting ancient bones together, I can use what I have learned from ancient materials.

We can now look for ancient human DNA at sites with no bone remains — and perhaps confirm claims such as that humans were present in the Americas 130,000 years ago

His group showed that the petrous bone, containing the tiny inner ear, harbors 100 times more DNA than other ancient human remains, offering a huge increase in the amount of genetic material available for analysis.

Butchery marks previously found on ancient dog bones at other Mayan sites suggest the dogs were raised for slaughter.

Searches for cancer in ancient remains are plagued (no pun intended) by sampling errors — the signature of cancer can be detected in bones, but many skeletons are incomplete, and of course cancers do not always spread to bone after they originate in soft tissue.

In a paper published August 17, 2017 in the journal PLOS ONE, an international team of researchers, led by Director Nicole Boivin of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, used new techniques to analyze ancient DNA and proteins from 496 bone samples from 22 island, coastal and inland sites in eastern Africa.

Earlier analyses of ancient totoaba ear bones show that juveniles once stayed in the estuary for the first several years of their lives.

In 2012, for example, Willerslev's lab published an analysis of proteins, which are generally longer lived postmortem than genetic material, of 43,000 - year - old woolly mammoth bones.16 And last year, Willerslev, Orlando, and colleagues published a genome - wide nucleosome map and survey of cytosine methylation levels in the DNA they pulled from the 4,000 - year - old hair shafts of a Paleo - Eskimo, effectively launching the field of ancient epigenetics.17 Also last year, Pääbo's group at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology published the first full DNA methylation maps of the Neanderthal and Denisovan genomes.18 «For the first time we'll be able to address what is the role of epigenomics and epigenetics in evolution,» Willerslev safor example, Willerslev's lab published an analysis of proteins, which are generally longer lived postmortem than genetic material, of 43,000 - year - old woolly mammoth bones.16 And last year, Willerslev, Orlando, and colleagues published a genome - wide nucleosome map and survey of cytosine methylation levels in the DNA they pulled from the 4,000 - year - old hair shafts of a Paleo - Eskimo, effectively launching the field of ancient epigenetics.17 Also last year, Pääbo's group at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology published the first full DNA methylation maps of the Neanderthal and Denisovan genomes.18 «For the first time we'll be able to address what is the role of epigenomics and epigenetics in evolution,» Willerslev safor Evolutionary Anthropology published the first full DNA methylation maps of the Neanderthal and Denisovan genomes.18 «For the first time we'll be able to address what is the role of epigenomics and epigenetics in evolution,» Willerslev saFor the first time we'll be able to address what is the role of epigenomics and epigenetics in evolution,» Willerslev says.

A new technique for DNA recovery allows for collecting ancient DNA even without solid bone fragments or fossils.

These appear to be inflicted from ancient stone tools, especially those used for shattering bones.

Here in the US, bone broths (which date back to ancient Greece and even Hippocrates himself who recommended them to people with digestion issues) have become popular in diet and beauty circles for the same reason: they provide a way to «drink collagen.»

Take, for example, a humorous approach to educating people about the benefits of ancient bone broth posted by the Food Renegade called, «America Needs More Brothels»!

Instructions for making oracle bones out of clay and adding Ancient Chinese symbols to make a message.

This is a bundle of primary school activities to use for Chinese New Year: 1 - Make an oracle bone from clay with Ancient Chinese symbols on.

It was believed that the mana (spiritual energy) of the chiefs bones gave additional protection to the place of refuge so no harm could be done to those seeking protection in this sacred sanctuary and life begins anew for those ancient Hawaiians.

Inspired by his appreciation for African sculpture and introduction to ancient Cycladic and Minoane work from the region, Whitten made sculpture composed of a variety of materials including wood, marble, stone, copper, bone, fishing wire, and meaningful personal objects.

Absent respect for the teachings of the scientific method all we're left with is the casting of chicken bones and the ancient science of astrology to overcome superstition and ignorance through knowledge.

For most Canadians, Drumheller conjures up images of dinosaur bones and ancient fossils, but entrepreneur Sean Clark's expedition in the southern Alberta town is focused on a very current obsession: Bitcoin.