Sentences with phrase «in archaeological studies»

They play an important role in applied sciences as well as industrial and commercial research, with uses ranging from the measurement of stress in commercial airplane wings to the inspection of details inside valuable artifacts in archaeological studies.

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(iii) you are a complete blowhard who has never studied one subject of university level biology, never been on an archaeological dig, never studied a thing about paleontology, geology, astronomy, linguistics or archaeology, but feel perfectly sure that you know more than the best biologists, archaeologists, paleontologists, doctors, astronomers botanists and linguists in the World because your mommy and daddy taught you some comforting stories from Bronze Age Palestine as a child.

While we all take some inspiration from ancient paganisms, there are some groups who are deeply dedicated to studying the primary texts and archaeological records of their chosen cultural framework to try to make their paths as close to their spiritual ancestors as reasonably possible in the modern world — this includes the use of bonfires and occasionally animal sacrifice.

The fact that the Old Testament may be an object of investigation in 1) church seminaries and divinity schools; 2) undergraduate departments of religion; 3) Near Eastern language and civilization programs; 4) archaeological institutes; 5) comparative literature studies; 6) English classes; or 7) anthropology departments makes for a considerably diverse angle of vision on the subject.

The genetic studies provide greater context for archaeological evidence found in the Americas: The research shows that the incredible diversity of cultures and languages among the native people of the Americas developed in place.

The studies also strengthen the case that all of the indigenous people living in the Americas descended from the continents» first inhabitants, which could resolve a legal limbo for some archaeological artifacts and human remains.

Goebel is also co-author of a 2015 study published in Science that brings together genetic and archaeological data to end speculation.

The Tel Nagila Middle Bronze Age homes — studying household activities and identifying children in the archaeological record.

After spending years in study and archaeological storage, the Hebior mammoth is now back in the hands of its rightful owner — and up for sale to the highest bidder.

He draws on past and recent archaeological studies indicating that the emergence of state - run societies around 6,000 years ago represented a cultural step backward in some important ways.

In a new study published in The Quarterly Review of Biology, Dr. Karen Hardy and her team bring together archaeological, anthropological, genetic, physiological and anatomical data to argue that carbohydrate consumption, particularly in the form of starch, was critical for the accelerated expansion of the human brain over the last million years, and coevolved both with copy number variation of the salivary amylase genes and controlled fire use for cookinIn a new study published in The Quarterly Review of Biology, Dr. Karen Hardy and her team bring together archaeological, anthropological, genetic, physiological and anatomical data to argue that carbohydrate consumption, particularly in the form of starch, was critical for the accelerated expansion of the human brain over the last million years, and coevolved both with copy number variation of the salivary amylase genes and controlled fire use for cookinin The Quarterly Review of Biology, Dr. Karen Hardy and her team bring together archaeological, anthropological, genetic, physiological and anatomical data to argue that carbohydrate consumption, particularly in the form of starch, was critical for the accelerated expansion of the human brain over the last million years, and coevolved both with copy number variation of the salivary amylase genes and controlled fire use for cookinin the form of starch, was critical for the accelerated expansion of the human brain over the last million years, and coevolved both with copy number variation of the salivary amylase genes and controlled fire use for cooking.

In an article recently published in the journal Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture, Coss examines archaeological evidence, genomics, neuroscience studies, animal behavior and prehistoric cave arIn an article recently published in the journal Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture, Coss examines archaeological evidence, genomics, neuroscience studies, animal behavior and prehistoric cave arin the journal Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture, Coss examines archaeological evidence, genomics, neuroscience studies, animal behavior and prehistoric caStudies in Imaginative Culture, Coss examines archaeological evidence, genomics, neuroscience studies, animal behavior and prehistoric cave arin Imaginative Culture, Coss examines archaeological evidence, genomics, neuroscience studies, animal behavior and prehistoric castudies, animal behavior and prehistoric cave art.

Dice often turn up in archaeological digs, but are rarely studied systematically.

The UW team chose to study hunting weapons from the time of the earliest archaeological record in Alaska (around 10,000 to 14,000 years ago), a time that is less understood archaeologically, and when different kinds of projectile points were in use.

These findings, published in Royal Society Open Science, match well with earlier linguistic and archaeological studies.

Dueling genetic studies based on the DNA of modern dogs and wolves suggest the fellowship between humans and dogs could have been forged in the Middle East, Central Asia, East Asia or, as Goyet's archaeological evidence suggests, in Europe.

The study underlines the significance of southern African archaeological remains in defining human origins, and is published in the journal Genome Biology and Evolution, now online.

Miller's «departure from the field will have serious ramifications for many on - going archaeological projects throughout» the Near East, where she studies plant remains to better understand agricultural economies, wrote Melinda Zeder, director of the archaeobiology program at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., in a letter sent last weekend to Richard Hodges, the museum's director.

Improving security had sparked a renaissance in fieldwork, with researchers heading back into the countryside in greater numbers to study birds, archaeological sites, and native plants.

In a study published today in the Journal of Archaeological Science an international team of Serbian and UK researchers have developed a Cu - As - Sn (Copper - Arsenic - Tin) colour ternary diagram to uncover the original colours of archaeological artefacts now patinated through age and exposurIn a study published today in the Journal of Archaeological Science an international team of Serbian and UK researchers have developed a Cu - As - Sn (Copper - Arsenic - Tin) colour ternary diagram to uncover the original colours of archaeological artefacts now patinated through age and exposurin the Journal of Archaeological Science an international team of Serbian and UK researchers have developed a Cu - As - Sn (Copper - Arsenic - Tin) colour ternary diagram to uncover the original colours of archaeological artefacts now patinated through age and exposure.

When comparing the history of hydrological changes in the region with artifacts from the Middle Stone Age, the researchers discovered a «striking correspondence between the archaeological record of South Africa and the timing of the abrupt climate change» as seen in the marine core, the study states.

The study concludes that the archaeological layers at the site are so mixed up that ornaments and tools once attributed to Neandertals could actually be the work of modern humans, who lived in the same cave at a later date.

«Considered in total, this study provides important early archaeological evidence for meat eating, hunting and scavenging behaviors - cornerstone adaptations that likely facilitated brain expansion in human evolution, movement of hominins out of Africa and into Eurasia, as well as important shifts in our social behavior, anatomy and physiology,» Ferraro said.

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.

By using a statistical technique known as Bayesian analysis — which combines probability with archaeological information to improve precision for groups of radiocarbon dates — the study authors were able to produce a high - precision chronology model for early domestic horse use in Mongolia.

Pre-Columbian art has a long history of study by naturalists and scientists travelling the Orinoco, such as Alexander von Humboldt, and has been the subject of archaeological research in the region for over half a century.

Dr. Charlier argues that human remains in museums and scientific institutions can be divided into four categories, «ethnographical elements» such as hair samples with no certain identification; anatomical remains such as whole skeletons or skulls; archaeological remains; and more modern collections of skulls, used in now discredited studies in the early 20th century.

«It's a great privilege to find something so rare, something so historically important, something that will be studied by the archaeological community and fills in a gap.

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 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.

Forthcoming in the Journal of Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, the study offers the earliest known archaeological evidence for human construction of large - scale levees and other flood - control systems in China.

The fossilized remains, which belong to the cimicid family (a group that includes today's common bedbugs), were found during archaeological investigations of the Paisley Five Mile Point Cave site, researchers said in a new study detailing the findings.

Back in the HOMINID lab, Jordi Serrallonga studies some archaeological remains he found in Peninj.

«Careful archaeological study in the future could definitely tell us more.»

Mann became interested in the study when he and other researchers went to archaeological sites on the North Slope in 1994 to see what ice - age humans were eating.

Though plaque is prolific in the archaeological record, most researchers viewed calculus as «the crap you scraped off your tooth in order to study it,» says Amanda Henry, an archaeologist at Leiden University in the Netherlands.

For instance, at Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico, which is a park solely because of its remarkable Native American architecture, the «existing staff numbers are far too small to adequately document and preserve the archaeological sites, and to fully educate the public,» says Stephen Plog, an archaeologist at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, who has studied the Chaco Culture.

«With disparate time estimates coming from the genetic studies, we need archaeological data to fix the chronology for when people are present in different places,» Rademaker says.

Once they used clusters of dates to track patterns of population growth and decline at archaeological sites in Europe, they calibrated their method by studying patterns in the types and dates of pollen found at the sites, which reflect when farmers cleared land of trees to grow crops.

This image was based on evidence from butchered meat bones and hunting tools at archaeological sites, as well as from studies of carbon, nitrogen, and other chemicals in the fossilized teeth of Neandertals, which can reveal their diets.

She also emphasises the importance of the study to current debates about a human role in climate warming: «Cumulative archaeological data clearly demonstrates that humans are more than capable of reshaping and dramatically transforming ecosystems.

Power studied microbotanical particles in the plaque of Neanderthals from six different archaeological sites, including Croatia, Italy and Russia.

A new study of archaeological sites across Western Europe highlights a strikingly consistent pattern in Neolithic farmers» communities: Their populations grew too big, too quickly, and crashed right after they peaked.

For instance, the study suggests that the early human species Australopithecus afarensis may have had greater dexterity than what was required for cutting with a stone, including manipulative and tool - related behaviors that may not have been preserved in the archaeological record.

That's about 2000 years earlier than suggested by previous studies focusing on a different, more selective set of genes known as the exome, but it's in line with recent archaeological findings that point to distinctly Tibetan permanent settlements appearing between 3600 and 5200 years ago, Yang says.

In all, the study included 41 archaeological sites on five continents.

A 2,700 - year - old portico was discovered this summer on the site of the ancient city of Argilos in northern Greece, following an archaeological excavation led by Jacques Perreault, Professor at the University of Montreal's Centre of Classical Studies and Zisis Bonias, an archaeologist with the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports.

An international team of archaeological scientists have put an end to the more than half - a-century old claim about the earliest copper smelting event at the Late Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in central Turkey — one of the world's best - studied prehistoric archaeological sites.

The study is part of the Guatemala - Penn Partnership, led by Dr. Branas, which draws on almost a century of Penn involvement in Guatemala, including public health, medical, anthropologic and archaeological activities and discoveries.

Although it's easy to assume that people tend to disastrously impact environmental health,» says Armstrong, «through studying the archaeological record and working with Indigenous collaborators, we see many examples of ancient societies that have successfully responded to environmental instability by conscientiously managing their resources and behaving in ways that promote resilient and biodiverse habitats.»