Sentences with phrase «human skull found»

Last year in the journal Nature, physical anthropologist Israel Hershkovitz described a 55,000 - year - old human skull found in Manot Cave, near the Skhul and Qafzeh sites.

Not exact matches

It is a fact is that fossil skulls have been found that are intermediate in appearance between humans and modern apes.

IgA and IgG have the potential to retard streptococcal growth; streptococcus mutans is highly susceptible to the bactericidal action of lactoferrin, a major component of human milk.9, 10 Rugg - Gunn reported that cariogenic bacteria may not be able to utilize lactose, the sugar found in breastmilk, as readily as sucrose.8 Confirming the findings of other researchers, this author has evaluated approximately 600 skulls to find little evidence of problems with dental decay among our prehistoric breastfed ancestors.11, 12,13,14,15

Adeoye explained that in a similar case, on the same date at about 11:30 am, at Oba's compound in Moro, Ipetumodu, one Adeniyi Adeyeye was also arrested when a human skull was found in his possession.

Abdullahi said items found in the camp and shrines were three pump action guns, eight empty cartridges, human skulls and some bones.

Humans may be the most dangerous game, but they're hardly the most nutritious (despite evidence of cannibalism, like these skulls found on an island in Fiji, above).

Long, parallel marks surrounding the hole and traces of scraping motions matched those found around the openings in the human skulls, leading researchers to conclude that the cow's gape came courtesy of human surgeons, they reveal today in Scientific Reports.

Over seven months, a team at the Louisiana Department of Justice in Baton Rouge tracked human skulls being advertised on the site and found that 237 people listed 454 skulls, with opening bids ranging from one cent to $ 5500.

Research into lethal wounds found on a human skull may indicate one of the first cases of murder in human history — some 430,000 years ago — and offers evidence of the earliest funerary practices in the archaeological record.

«The geological similarities between the sediments at the place where the skull was found and sediments laid down during the 1998 tsunami that hit this same coastline have made us realise that human populations in this area have been affected by these massive inundations for thousands of years.»

A 55,000 - year - old incomplete skull found in Israel may belong to a human group that interbred with Neanderthals.

The skull, found underneath the medieval village of Dmanisi, belonged to a human ancestor called Homo erectus, but its gender and cause of death are still unknown.

Because piglet skulls have similar mechanical properties as infant human skulls — meaning they bend and break in similar ways — Haut and Fenton used the already deceased specimens in their research and found they were able to classify the different fracture patterns with a high degree of accuracy.

When the team compared these scans with those of the skulls of Homo sapiens from temperate regions, they found Neanderthals» sinuses were only bigger because they had bigger faces; the two species» sinuses had the same relative size relationship (Journal of Human Evolution, DOI: 10.1016 / j.jhevol.2010.10.003).

«With the skulls we found,» co-author Ignacio Martínez, Professor of Paleontology at the University of Alcalá, added, «it was possible to characterize the cranial morphology of a human population of the European Middle Pleistocene for the first time.»

While previous scaling laws predicted that humans» brains would be more resilient to blasts than animals», Radovitzky's team found the opposite: that in fact, humans are much more vulnerable, as they have thinner skulls to protect much larger brains.

It turns out that brain regions that do the same job in monkeys and humans aren't always found in the same part of the skull.

The findings also lend support to claims that the small brain of the human ancestor Homo floresiensis, whose 18,000 - year - old skull was discovered on a remote Indonesian island in 2003, isn't as remarkable as it might seem.

The oldest known H. sapiens skulls, which his team considers to be the two Moroccan finds, have faces shaped like those of modern humans, Neubauer says.

In fact, in both rats and human cadavers, Buzsáki's team found about 75 percent of currents applied to the scalp never reach the brain, but instead are taken up by the skull, scalp and other external tissues.

I find it rather easy to distinguish a modern human skull from that of an ape or monkey.

A Tel Aviv University researcher was part of the team that released findings Thursday showing that the human evolutionary tree has fewer branches than originally thought, based on a 1.8 - million - year - old skull found buried under a medieval Georgian village.

The fossil skull found, nicknamed Toumai is as old as any hominid fossil found to date, yet its features appear much more human - like than those of other contenders for title of human ancestor.

The skull of a female found on the Flores island is less than one - third the size of the skull of modern humans.

Partial human skulls about 100,000 years old unearthed in Xuchang, China have been found to present an extraordinary set of features, helping researchers make sense of human evolution in eastern Eurasia.

View the table on the skull comparison page, which demonstrates that creationists actually find it not «easy», but horribly difficult to classify fossils as ape or human.

A study of ancient skulls found in Brazil reveals that human migration occurred in Americas through two waves of human population.

This find is a nearly complete fossil skull of a «robust» early human, and has been assigned to the species Australopithecus aethiopicus.

Such cases, if they even occur, are obviously exceptionally rare, and the probability of finding a fossil human skull with such a small brain is essentially zero.

One reason for going there had been a human skull which a mining engineer had found at Wadjak in 1888.

Five Mayan buildings have been found so far, one of which may be the true temple of the goddess Ixchel as well as more than 100 pieces of obsidian, jade, skeletons and human skulls.

Other works featured in LIVESupport include «Church State,» a two - part sculpture comprised of ink - covered church pews mounted on wheels; «Ambulascope,» a downward facing telescope supported by a seven - foot tower of walking canes, which are marked with ink and adorned with Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs) of the spinal column; «Riot Gates,» a series of large - scale X-Ray images of the human skull mounted on security gates and surrounded by a border of ink - covered shoe tips, objects often used by the artist as tenuous representation of the body; «Role Play Drawings» a series of found black and white cards from the 1960s used for teaching young children, which Ward has altered using ink to mark out the key elements and reshape the narrative, which leaves the viewer to interpret the remaining psychological tension; and «Father and Sons,» a video filmed at Reverend Al Sharpton's National Action Network House of Justice, which comments on the anxiety and complex dialogue that African - American police officers are often faced with when dealing with young African - American teenagers.

Despite its low - tech appearance, «Dream Fiend» is a complex construction of found wood and cast - metal components, replete with a metal bird - head that repeatedly pecks a human skull.

Small, annotated drawings of human skulls and bones found within an anatomy book undoubtedly played a role in Still's paintings and drawings of the 1930s.

His Wunderkammer of natural stones, shells, bones, animal skulls, and other found objects will be presented alongside the drawings and sculptural maquettes that they inspired, demonstrating the metamorphosis from nature to sculpture, from inanimate object to human or animal form, that was the impetus of his oeuvre.

Orozco's interest in complex geometry and mapping find expression in works like the patterned human skull of Black Kites, the curvilinear logic of Oval Billiard Table, and the extended playing field of the chessboard in Horses Running Endlessly.

If one excludes the controversial claim that the 3 million year old Makapansgat Pebble (University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg) represents the world's oldest piece of junk art (in this case an objet trouve or «found object», chosen for its resemblance to a human skull), the first junk artist was Marcel Duchamp (1887 - 1968).

The Broken Hill skull is the first early human fossil found in Africa and provided the primary evidence to support Darwin's theory of evolution, proposing humans as the natural descendants of primates.

Typical «found objects» include natural materials like sand (see Sand Art), earth, stones, shells, curiously shaped pieces of wood, a human skull; or man - made items such as newspaper cuttings, photographs, pieces of glass, fragments of scrap metal, pieces of textile fabric, an unmade bed, a bicycle handlebars, and so on.

Another of Hirst's modified «found objects» is a lavishly decorated human skull, entitled For the Love of God (2007, Private Collection).