Sentences with phrase «human archeological record»

They point out the decrease in stature and increase in dental malformations that are apparent in the human archeological record shortly after the Agricultural Revolution as key indications of our need to avoid them.

Not exact matches

For a time, that led scientists to look for archeological evidence that there might have been a great global flood at some time in human pre-history, before recorded history, when stories were passed down orally.

These environmental records, in combination with ancient tools that have been excavated from archeological sites within Olorgesailie, help tell the tale of a hominin species that could very well be the ancestor of modern humans.

The archeological record shows that in every measurable way human health declined with this transition, with clear evidence of physical degeneration, including a loss of height and bone density, and a dramatic increase in dental and skeletal problems.

My guess, FWIW, is that there is a lot of cultural (and perhaps even neurological) development going on between the first «anatomically modern» humans 200,000 years back (and, according to recent finds, now further back than that) and the «Upper Paleolithic,» which is the period ~ 50,000 years ago when we start to see differentiation and development of stone tool technologies in the archeological record:

The third is less widely known but should be front - and - center: It is well - known among people who study such things that, human civilization has seen several warm periods and several cold periods all within the span of recorded history and the archeological record timeframe, so we have a pretty good understanding of what each kind of climate change bodes for mankind.