Sentences with phrase «human bone fragments»

She sat at a triage table at the head of the mortuary assembly line, sifting human bone fragments from building materials and animal remains, and separating unrelated parts.

To that end, Oxford grad student Samantha Brown reported in a poster that she discovered a human bone fragment by using a new technique, called ZooMS, to scan 2315 bones from the cave for uniquely human proteins.

Not exact matches

In eight years, from 17 ancient wrecks, McKee has brought up 40 tons: a 17 - foot, 2 1/2 - ton anchor; 18 cannons; over 400 cannonballs; flintlocks, pistols and swords; gold doubloons; silver pieces - of - eight; wine - jug, rum - bottle and china - plate fragments; tackle blocks; pewter plates and cups; belt and shoe buckles and worn boot heels; cutlery, inkwells, figurines and religious medals; copper and silver ingots; a ton of lead; gold rings, earrings and brooches; human teeth, beef bones and elephant tusks.

From a u-CT scan and an X-ray, researchers identified a fibrous dysplastic neoplasm — today, the most common form of benign bone tumor in humans — located on a Neandertal left rib fragment that measured 30 mm (4 1/2 inches) long.

A new high - coverage DNA sequencing method reconstructs the full genome of Denisovans — relatives to both Neandertals and humans — from genetic fragments in a single finger bone

Meanwhile humans around the globe have bones just as small or smaller than these fragments from Palau, says William L. Jungers of Stony Brook University, who has been studying the postcranial skeleton of LB1.

But now that increasingly powerful genomic technology can definitively identify a species from a fragment of bone or uncover Neanderthal genes embedded in the DNA of modern humans, there is less room for debate.

Now, a study uses a new method that relies on ancient proteins to identify and directly date Neandertal bone fragments from Grotte du Renne and finds that the connection between the archaic humans and the artifacts is real.

Her job in the ancient cemetery is to rebuild each skeleton from the disordered bones and fragments (there are no less than 206 bones in the human body).

Pääbo created it by sequencing DNA from fragments of bone (most of it from the Vindija cave in Croatia) to get 3 billion Neanderthal base pairs essentially uncontaminated by human DNA or by microbes.

The largest bone of the bunch was an 81 - centimeter - long fragment of humerus, which in humans stretches from shoulder to elbow.

«Discovered in 1992 during construction work to expand an expressway, the bone fragments «show clear signs of having been deliberately broken by humans with manual dexterity,» lead author Steve Holen asserted.

The modern human ancestor who contributed genes to this particular Neanderthal individual — called the «Altai Neanderthal,» and known from a tiny toe bone fragment — must have migrated out of Africa long before the migration that led Africans into Europe and Asia 60,000 years ago, the scientists say.

In addition to skulls and bones, you also can see several tombs centuries old, as well as long human hairs, ceramic fragments and others remains scattered on the desert surface.

Kepes utilised a wide spectrum of imagery and techniques in his work, including but not limited to: geometric studies of prisms and cones; the refractive properties of mirrors and lenses; mechanical forms including propellers and gears; domestic objects such as fabric, sieves and string and items drawn from the natural world, which ranged from feathers and bone to close - up fragments of the human body.