Sentences with phrase «of ancient bone»

Take, for example, a humorous approach to educating people about the benefits of ancient bone broth posted by the Food Renegade called, «America Needs More Brothels»!

But it will take more examples of ancient bone tumors to draw broader conclusions, the researchers say.

Fossil hunter, philanderer, oilman, spy: Barnum Brown dabbled in a few dubious shenanigans while amassing the world's greatest cache of ancient bones.

In the past decade, powerful new x-ray scans and three - dimensional computer models have transformed the analysis of ancient bones, teeth, and shells.

The largest trove of ancient bones unearthed in Belgium offers signs of «intentional butchering» which suggest our prehistoric ancestors may have practiced cannibalism, a new study revealed.

Not exact matches

(Dr. Browning didn't contemplate the possibility that, without Jesus, there would have been no iconoclastic destruction of Scotland's ancient and beautiful Catholic churches, or no mass burnings of «witches» by his forebears in the kirk; but that, perhaps, would have been cutting a bit too close to the bone.)

How many bones of ancient humans and our ancestors do they have to dig up to «prove» that the world was not created 6,000 years ago?

Realizing its potential anthropological significance, Kennedy turned the bone over to experts at the Smithsonian Museum and the University of Florida, who have now been able to confirm that this really is authentically ancient, and not just a clever forgery (making counterfeit mammoth engravings was a big thing in the 19th century, for whatever reason).

But we do believe in the eternal significance of the condescension of God, the glorious Incarnation, the singular moment in time when the God of the ancients came to earth to take upon him a body of flesh and bones.

It bids us plunge into the depths of Christianity's harrowing sublimity — into, that is, our ossuaries encrusted with bone, our catacombs whose chambers ancient hymns once filled.

We are made of stardust, the scientists say — the iron in our blood, the calcium in our bones, and the chlorine in our skin forged in the furnaces of ancient stars whose explosions scattered the elements across the galaxy.

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.

Your kids will see some of the oldest dinosaur bones in Canada and meet ancient creatures.

Are these abandoned heaps of rocks and bones part of an ancient civilization?

Of course, Ken Morgan has history in his bone - marrow: if science permitted it, I'm certain that there would be proof that he is directly descended from the cyfarddwyddiaid, the Bardic storytellers of ancient Wales with Y Tri Chof — the three memories — knowledge of languages, genealogies, and (crucially) history that were the tools of their tradOf course, Ken Morgan has history in his bone - marrow: if science permitted it, I'm certain that there would be proof that he is directly descended from the cyfarddwyddiaid, the Bardic storytellers of ancient Wales with Y Tri Chof — the three memories — knowledge of languages, genealogies, and (crucially) history that were the tools of their tradof ancient Wales with Y Tri Chof — the three memories — knowledge of languages, genealogies, and (crucially) history that were the tools of their tradof languages, genealogies, and (crucially) history that were the tools of their tradof their trade.

Higham's team collected and radiocarbon - dated about 20 samples of artifacts and animal bones with cut marks, which presumably were discarded by ancient humans.

But new analyses of fish fossils, as well as genetic analyses of a living fish species, suggest that this specialized material once served a very different function: to toughen some bones and scales of ancient fish.

But the scales and skull bones of this ancient fish included some enamel.

But a new genetic analysis of ancient horse bones suggests that these horses have a tamed ancestor after all, making them feral rather than wild.

In 2010, a team of anthropologists claimed that cutmarks on a pair of 3.4 - million - year - old animal bones found in an area of the Afar region known as Dikika were made by ancient stone - tool butchery.

AN ANCIENT foot bone is forcing a rethink of when our ancestors first reached the islands off south - east Asia.

Iain McKechnie and Dana Lepofsky examine ancient herring fish bones that tell a fascinating story about how gigantic herring fisheries were for thousands of years in the Pacific Northwest.

To better gauge how women's skeletal strength has changed over time, Macintosh's team compared bones of ancient farm women with those of living women, including different types of athletes.

Deep in a sinkhole, buried in a pile of sand and mastodon dung, was a small, ancient knife used for hunting and cutting carcass meat from the bone.

Collecting and cataloging fossil bones, the heart of vertebrate paleontology, has been primarily a historical enterprise, one of unearthing ancient information and looking for patterns.

Orlando's group examined DNA from the bones of 15 Iron Age stallions from the ancient Scythian civilization: Two stallions were from a 2,700 - year - old grave site in Russia and 13 were sacrificed in a burial ritual about 2,300 years ago in Kazakhstan.

Johannes Krause and Svante Pääbo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, zeroed in on mitochondrial DNA (which is passed down intact from a woman to her children) preserved in the ancient bone.

Middens — which may also include bones, charcoal, feces, and pottery shards — provide much of what we know about ancient diet and lifestyle.

Conventional techniques for recovering ancient human DNA typically require the destruction of bone or tooth tissue during analysis, and this has been a cause of concern for many Native and indigenous communities.

Excavation of an ancient battlefield in northern Germany revealed signs of a great battle, such as closely packed bones, as seen in this 2013 photo of the site.

In light of these findings, the ancient California and 3.4 - million - year - old East Africa bones should also be reexamined with the possibility of croc damage in mind, White says.

Authors of the ancient butchery papers agree that bone marks made by crocodiles deserve closer study and careful comparison with proposed stone - tool marks.

New techniques (some developed in the last two to three years) for analyzing fragile DNA from ancient bones offer genetic snapshots of domestication as it played out long ago.

To collect a few milligrams of his bone powder for analysis, scientists in the Natural History Museum's ancient DNA lab drilled a tiny, 2 mm wide hole into the ancient skull.

It had been a different story at RAS's zoological museum a few days earlier, where she wasn't allowed to sample the bones she had come for because they were already covered with drill marks from other researchers who, like her, hoped to mine the relatively small number of ancient polar bear samples to reveal their evolutionary history.

THE odd leg bones and prominent brow ridges of a fossil hominid found in Belgium in 1830 clearly belong to an ancient relative of Homo sapiens.

Veeramah is quick to point out Larson's analysis hinged largely on the genome of one ancient pooch, extracted from a 5,000 - year - old fossilized ear bone preserved at a Neolithic site in Ireland called Newgrange.

The range of crocodile marks described in the new study doesn't look «especially like» damage to the 130,000 - year - old mastodon bones on California's coast, says paleontologist Daniel Fisher of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, a coauthor of the ancient California bones paper.

To establish the fossil's identity, the researchers compared a 3 - D image of the ancient finger bone with corresponding bones of present - day people, apes and monkeys, as well as Neandertals and other ancient hominids.

In a fume hood in a lab designated just for ancient DNA work, she cleaned the bones and scraped off the outer layers to get rid of as much DNA contamination as possible before grinding up a portion of each of the bones and conducting the DNA extraction.

With utmost care, she drilled off a small piece of each bone, putting it into a plastic bag to take back to Eske Willerslev's ancient DNA lab at the University of Copenhagen, where she was a postdoc.

Along with more than 100 other fossils representing nearly 40 other Ardipithecus individuals, Ardi was discovered in the scorched landscape of Ethiopia's Afar Rift, a place where torrential rains regularly wash up traces of ancient stone and bone from different eras.

«It's difficult to capture ancient fishing because of the nature of fish bones — they're small, fragile bones,» says Carrin Halffman, a biological anthropologist at the University of Alaska (UA), Fairbanks, and the lead author of the new study.

Herb Maschner, an Arctic archaeologist at the University of South Florida in Tampa, agrees and says the careful excavation methods and analysis serve as a good example of what archaeologists need to do to answer questions about ancient people living in central Alaska where the conditions for preserving bones and artifacts are «notoriously» bad.

For years, Alter and her colleagues have meticulously reconstructed the history of the species using subfossils — ancient bones that, unlike true fossils, are not yet fully mineralized and still contain minute traces of DNA.

Why market a boring old herbal remedy containing something related to the weed milk - vetch when you can squint sideways at the Linnaean name of its family of plants, Astragalus, ignore the fact that «astragalus» is Ancient Greek for «ankle bone», and call it «Astral Fruit ``?

That's the conclusion from an analysis of the fragmentary remains of an ancient leg bone unearthed on Canada's Ellesmere Island, which lies just west of northern Greenland.

Accessing Ancient Genomes — New techniques and very old bones pushed back the limits of genome sequencing for our early ancestors.

New techniques and very old bones overcome the limits of genome sequencing for prehistoric horses, ancient cave bears, and even our own early ancestors.

The uninterrupted freeze of the permafrost preserved DNA in the horse bone, but since DNA decays into smaller and less intelligible fragments over time, the specimen seemed too ancient to analyze.