Sentences with phrase «near east»

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During the period from ≈ 800 to 1300 AD, various populations in Europe, the Near East, and China learned to distill alcoholic beverages (47).

«Remains of barley (Hordeum vulgare) grains found at archaeological sites in the Fertile Crescent (in the near east which spans present day Israel, northern Syria, Southern Turkey, eastern Iraq and western Iran) indicate that about 10,000 years ago the crop was domesticated there from its wild relative «Hordeum spontaneum».

Its ancient ancestor, Avena sterilis, was native to the Fertile Crescent in the Near East, but domesticated oats do best in cool, moist climates like regions of Europe and the United States.

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Bikers share the road with cars on the 50 - mile stretch from the park's west entrance to Logan Pass, near the east entrance.

Finally, we show that Parsis are genetically closer to Neolithic Iranians than to modern Iranians, who have witnessed a more recent wave of admixture from the Near East.

About 8,000 years ago, Europe saw the first appearance of farmers, migrating from the Near East and then diverging into two different paths.

Medium - sized dogs (with wither heights between 45 — 60 cm) have been identified in Natufian sites in the Near East (Tell Mureybet in Syria, Hayonim Terrace and Ein Mallaha in Israel, and Pelagawra Cave in Iraq) dated to ~ 15,500 - 11,000 cal BP).

Early populations from Europe and the Near East were not just farming, though.

Paradoxically, while archaeology shows that Europe's earliest farmers hailed from the Near East, populations living in that region today do not particularly resemble them genetically.

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Then about 14,000 years ago, farmers from the Near East also populated Europe.

The team show that at least 80 % of the variation in Ashkenazi mitochondrial DNA has ancestry in prehistoric Europe, rather than the Near East or Caucasus.

Both attributes were brought by farmers from the Near East.

Martin Richards and colleagues sequenced 74 mitochondrial genomes and analysed more than 3,500 mitochondrial genomes from across Europe, the Caucasus and the Near East to provide a detailed reconstruction of Ashkenazi genealogical history.

The study, published in Nature Communications, suggests that maternal lineages were not brought from the Near East or Caucasus, as sometimes believed, but rather originated within Mediterranean Europe.

Putting together the genetic data on the ancient and modern samples, namely those already present in the literature and those analysed in this study, researchers have now proposed the following scenario to explain the Iceman's genetic history: Ötzi's paternal lineage, G2a, is part of an ancient genetic substrate that arrived in Europe from the Near East with the migrations of the first Neolithic peoples some 8,000 years ago.

The Tian Shan Mountains, which form the northern border of this desert, are part of a chain of mountain ranges that have long served as a central corridor for the prehistoric Silk Road routes between China and the Near East.

But the moderns, who came up from Africa, apparently did not venture any farther than the Near East at that time, possibly due to competition from the Neandertals who were then occupying much of Europe and Asia.

Recently published paleoclimate data show that conditions in the Near East became more arid during the latter half of the 7th century BC.

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A once - popular view that climate change led the Near East's ancient Natufians to begin domesticating plants and animals is under increasing attack, but alternative paradigms are still being formed.

In the 9th century BC, the Assyrian Empire of northern Iraq relentlessly started to expand into most of the ancient Near East.

The experts reached this conclusion after re-examining the 8,500 - year - old copper slag and analysing the chemical composition of other copper artefacts from the Stone Age settlement of Çatalhöyük in the Near East.

The authors contend that this substantially reduced the state's ability to withstand a severe drought such as the one that hit the Near East in 657 BC.

It reached its height in the early 7th century BC, becoming the largest of its kind in the Near East up to that time.

The data highlighted shows that domesticated sheep, goats and cattle were first in the Near East 10,500 years ago, and arrived in Europe, Africa and South Asia within a few millennia.

The first time was at least 80,000 years ago in the Near East, as evidenced by findings of both Neandertal and modern human bones in caves in Israel.

Archaeologists have dug up thousands of skeletons at early farming sites across the Near East and Europe, and many of them are buried together in ways that might suggest family ties.

This settlement existed from approximately 7,100 to 6,000 BC and is considered to be the most significant site in the Near East that affords any insight into the development of human habitats.

Although the country has been far less studied than Mesopotamia, it played a critical role in the rise of empires and economies in the region starting around 1000 B.C.E., researchers said at a meeting here last week of the International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East.

Wheat reached Britain from the Near East at least 2000 years before the arrival of wheat farming [Also see Report by Smith et al..]

Around 80 - 85 % of areas suited to agriculture were cultivated in the Near East 3,000 years ago, says one study highlighted in the paper.

In the Near East, deciduous trees were turned over to evergreen oak, and indigenous forest became cultivated with the introduction of crops like olive, grape and fig.

When it comes to human evolution, Europe and the Near East are crucial places: Europe has the first cave art, and the Near East has the first sightings of modern humans out of Africa, for example.

In addition to CT scanning of bones and teeth and radiocarbon dating of previously excavated materials, researchers hope to launch new archaeological digs, possibly in Europe or the Near East.

And new evidence from both the Near East and Europe, Bogaard says, suggests that «cropping and herding developed in tandem» and were «entangled from the start.»

Farmers in the Near East — what is today Israel, Palestine, Syria, Jordan, and neighboring countries — began cultivating plants and herding animals about 8000 B.C.E., but there are no signs that they used animal dung for anything other than as fuel for fires.

Yet the citizens of Brak were already using imported materials to make fine goods in large workshops, including a marble - and - obsidian chalice and a stamp seal with the image of a lion being caught in a net — a classic symbol of kingship in the ancient Near East.

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But the ancient Near East had seemed curiously drug - free — until recently.

«Nothing ever seals the deal, but this is pretty strong evidence for dog domestication in the Near East cultural region,» says Carlos Driscoll, a geneticist at

«The archaeology of the ancient Near East is traditionally conservative.»

This week in Science, researchers report that genetic analysis of hundreds of canines reveals that dogs may have been domesticated twice, once in Asia and once in Europe or the Near East, although European ancestry has mostly vanished from today's dogs.

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«The conversion systems in operation were elegant in their simplicity,» Lamberg - Karlovsky says, «and would have been crucial in developing the scale and nature of commercial exchange in the Near East.»

There, Anatolian farmers from the Near East swept into Europe with a package of artifacts including tools, seeds, and domesticated animals, and replaced or interbred with the local hunter - gatherers 12,000 to 8000 years ago.

At the International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East here last week, for example, one scholar even reinterpreted well - studied ancient images as representing drug - taking rituals and drug - induced distortions.

Their sample included the first DNA ever sequenced from early farmers in the Near East, such as this one buried at Barcın Höyük in northwest Anatolia, in today's Turkey.