Sentences with phrase «from archaeological sites»

(This refers to the study of animal remains from archaeological sites.)

The Beijing - based artist uses traditional Chinese ceramics that have been recovered from archaeological sites.

The resort is within close proximity of the Lebanese capital's city centre, the beach, Rafic Hariri International Airport and is around an hour's drive from archaeological sites and historic cities like Baalbek, Sidon and Byblos.

Previous opportunities have included teachers visiting and recording evidence from archaeological sites associated with the Angevin Empire.

as evinced from archaeological sites in Wallacea and Sahul dating.

For the past few years, hundreds of these bones have been collected from archaeological sites all over the world, and groundbreaking genomics papers have been published using these samples.

In a study published Thursday in the journal Science, a team of researchers revealed it had successfully retrieved DNA of our extinct relatives, the Neandertals, and their Asian cousins, the Denisovans, from archaeological sites that did not contain any visible human remains.

The study, published online March 31 in Journal of Archaeological Science, produces scientific estimates of the age of horse bones found from archaeological sites belonging to a culture known as the Deer Stone - Khirigsuur Complex.

The scientists extracted DNA from 37 dogs specimens recovered from archaeological sites in Mexico, Peru and Boliva that predated Columbus's arrival.

Dolores R. Piperno of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and Karen E. Stothert of the University of Texas at San Antonio collected fossilized Cucurbita phytoliths from archaeological sites in southwestern Ecuador.

So the researchers used cod cranial bones (the fish heads that were removed before the fish were dried or salted) from archaeological sites near the places where the fish could have been caught.

Roel Lauwerier from the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands corroborated Lenders» archival findings with data from archaeological sites at which fish bones were uncovered.

Through genetic material preserved in fish bones from archaeological sites, Star and colleagues uncovered the apparent origin of a trade route that continues today.

Previous research has found that U5b2c1 was present in two ancient hunter - gatherers recovered from an archaeological site in north - western Spain, she says.

For example, beeswax was detected in cooking pots from an archaeological site in Turkey, dating to the seventh millennium BC — the oldest evidence yet for the use of bee products by Neolithic farmers.

The team sampled 151 mummified individuals from the archaeological site of Abusir el - Meleq, along the Nile River in Middle Egypt, from two anthropological collections hosted and curated at the University of Tuebingen and the Felix von Luschan Skull Collection at the Museum of Prehistory of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Stiftung Preussicher Kulturbesitz.

On Tuesday, hundreds of frustrated tourists began picketing the official ticket office in downtown Cusco, the former Inca capital that is three hours from the archaeological site.

The Westin Lima Hotel is a five star hotel located in the city of Lima and 5 km from the archaeological site of Huaca Pucllana.

Standing less than six kilometres from the archaeological site of Palenque, Boutique Hotel Quinta Chanabnal has been created to evoke a Mayan palace complex of the Classic Period.

A short distance from the archaeological site of Palenque, this luxury resort evokes a Mayan palace complex of the Classic Period.

Small sculptures on the other table might have been excavated from an archaeological site.

A bird of prey, sculpted in basalt, from the archaeological site of Tell Halaf in Northern Syria, dating from early 9th century BCE

Not exact matches

A 135 - year - old Tabasco ® bottle has been recovered and reconstructed from 21 glass fragments found in an archaeological site of the historic Boston Saloon in Virginia City, Nevada.

By Dave DeWitt A 135 - year - old Tabasco ® bottle has been recovered and reconstructed from 21 glass fragments found in an archaeological site of the historic Boston Saloon in Virginia City, Nevada.

To explore European ancestry further, Willerslev's team extracted DNA from the ulna, or lower arm bone, of a skeleton of a young man discovered in 1954 at Kostenki 14, one of more than 20 archaeological sites at Kostenki - Borshchevo.

From an archaeological standpoint, I would pick Laas Geel, a well - preserved 10,000 - year - old cave art site that is one of the oldest in Africa.

This study's authors combed through reams of archaeological reports that analyze almost half a million fish bones at 171 archaeological sites from Alaska, British Columbia and Washington State.

The bone fragment, which comes from the famous archaeological cave site of Krapina, contains by far the earliest bone tumor ever identified in the archaeological record.

Dr Simon Blockley and Dr Alison MacLeod, from the Department of Geography at Royal Holloway, analysed volcanic material that preserved the archaeological site in the village of Nor Geghi, in the Kotayk Province of Armenia.

About 25 miles from Johannesburg, South Africa, Sterkfontein is one of the most productive early homin archaeological sites in the world.

For the bone tip, modeled on a 12,000 - year - old ivory point from an Alaskan archaeological site, Wood used a multipurpose tool to grind a commercially purchased cow bone;

According to the authors of this paper entitled «The fossil teeth of the Peking Man,» there are similarities between the teeth of Zhoukoudian and those of other Chinese archaeological sites from a similar period, but they also highlight the differences from other teeth ascribed either to Homo erectus or other species of hominins from Africa and Europe.

Precise new dates of settlement, established from large surveys of archaeological sites, show more centrally planned movement, bolstering the case for a communal hunting effort versus a loose federation of farm stands.

To get to the bottom of things, he mapped the ages and locations of 1,323 woolly mammoth remains and 576 archaeological sites, and he merged them with data from plant and pollen records, and climate change information from ice cores in Greenland.

A team, led by Professor Thomas Higham of the University of Oxford, obtained new radiocarbon dates for around 200 samples of bone, charcoal and shell from 40 key European archaeological sites.

«Sailing Sinbad's Seas,» published in the 27 June 2014 issue of the journal, describes how these immensely important but overlooked trade routes are being retraced in archaeological sites ranging from East Africa to Sri Lanka to Cambodia.

Efforts to map ancient sites from satellite imagery are revealing never - before known archaeological sites, which may lead to a «no - strike list» for combatants

The archaeological site at La Ferrassie, excavated throughout the 20th century, is a mythical enclave because it was where 7 Neanderthal skeletons, ranging from foetuses to almost complete skeletons of adults, were found.

Previous research based on representations of chickens on ceramics and paintings, plus bones from other archaeological sites, suggested that chickens were first introduced to Africa through North Africa, Egypt and the Nile Valley about 2,500 years ago.

His team — a Greek and two Sudanese archaeologists, a pair of conservators from Italy and Austria, and an American archaeological surveyor — are at the dig site today, trying to accomplish as much as they can before the sun rises higher in the sky and the desert temperatures soar beyond 100 degrees Fahrenheit.

Weaving together data from the many journal articles and archaeological site reports, the team concluded that the timing of extinctions indicates humans may be involved in the extinction of more than 60 % of the nearly 150 native mammal species.

For instance, researchers may have a limited time to survey coastal archaeological sites threatened by erosion, to sample melting ice sheets holding clues to past climates, and to document so - called thermokarst lakes, which are formed by meltwater from permafrost.

«Sadly, there is a persistent menace from those who deliberately set out to loot protected archaeological sites, or who couldn't care less about wrecking them,» he says.

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.

A recent study led by Joseph Ferraro, Ph.D., assistant professor of anthropology at Baylor, offers new insight in this debate with a wealth of archaeological evidence from the two million - year - old site of Kanjera South (KJS), Kenya.

The earliest evidence for cheese making comes from 7,000 - year - old archaeological sites in Poland, where milk fat remains were found in holed ceramic containers that could have served as rudimentary strainers.

The researchers, led by Dr Andrew Wilson, an expert in perception, action and embodied cognition at Leeds Beckett, alongside Associate Professor Qin Zhu from the University of Wyoming, Professor Lawrence Barham and Professor Ian Stanistreet from the University of Liverpool, and Professor Geoffrey Bingham from Indiana University, analysed a sample of 55 spheroids (ball - shaped stone objects found in African archaeological sites) from the Cave of Hearths in the Makapan Valley in South Africa.

Most of these samples originated from archaeological layers or sites where no Neandertal bones or teeth were previously found.

From sediment samples collected at seven archaeological sites, the researchers «fished out» tiny DNA fragments that had once belonged to a variety of mammals, including our extinct human relatives.

In late 2010, scientists detected bits of plants, including cattail - like roots, on the grinding stones from 30,000 - year - old archaeological sites in Italy, Russia, and the Czech Republic.