Sentences with phrase «of ancient farmers»

They also revealed that the United States» agricultural output and economy are significant beneficiaries of ancient farmers in East Asia, where soybean originated, and Central America and Mexico, where maize (corn) and other important staples were born.

But last year, population geneticist Mattias Jakobsson of Uppsala University in Sweden reported that the DNA of modern Basques is most like that of the ancient farmers who populated northern Spain before the Yamnaya migration.

Not exact matches

Now, if you can attach your thoughts to an ancient tribe of dirt farmers in the Middle East 2000 years ago, the Christians will eagerly swallow it.

Produced by a cooperative of small farmers who practice an ancient method of removing impurities from organic whole cane juice by using wild - crafted herbs and then sun drying.

The aroma gene has been prized by farmers everywhere for thousands of years and it became widely adopted in different rice varieties throughout the ancient rice - growing world long before modern national boundaries were established.

The volunteers at Congressional include a sugar - beet farmer (Jim House of Brawley, Calif.), a journalist (Gary Galyean, editor of iGolf), a two - time U.S. Women's Amateur champion (Carol Semple Thompson) and the secretary of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews (Michael Bonallack).

Enjoy sing - alongs with David Coffin, Janice Allen, and the Revels Alumni Youth Chorus, a funny Farmers Market Mummers Play, delicious refreshments, plus a visit from that ancient harbinger of spring, the Padstow «Obby «Oss, all the way from Cornwall, England!

Dozens of studies have examined the genetics of the first European farmers, who emigrated from the Middle East beginning some 8,000 years ago, but the hot climes of the Fertile Crescent had made it difficult to obtain ancient DNA from remains found there.

Prompted by the extraordinary DNA identity, the scientists used information from decades - old botanical collections, knowledge of the seasonal movements of ancient hunter - gatherer - farmers and molecular DNA clock calculations to work out that the plants» seeds had almost certainly been transported by humans about 10,000 years ago.

In an analysis of ancient genomes published August 4 in Current Biology, researchers at Stockholm University and Uppsala University in Sweden and Middle East Technical University in Turkey report that at least two waves of early European settlers belonged to the same gene pool as farmers in Central Turkey — genealogy that can be traced back to some of the first people to cultivate crops outside of Mesopotamia.

But it wasn't just any gut microbe — this early farmer was infected with a particular ancient strain of Helicobacter pylori bacteria that is most similar to modern Asian strains.

The researchers concluded it is likely that ancient farmers favored the VRN - D4 variant of the vernalization gene in this region because of its high adaptive value in the local environment.

An international consortium led by researchers from the University of Tübingen and Harvard Medical School analyzed ancient human genomes from a ~ 7,000 - year - old early farmer from the LBK culture from Stuttgart in Southern Germany, a ~ 8,000 - year - old hunter - gatherer from the Loschbour rock shelter in Luxembourg, and seven ~ 8,000 - year - old hunter - gatherers from Motala in Sweden.

Wherever possible, farmers built dams and canals to irrigate cropland; they also built terraced stone walls on hillsides to make new fields; and they drained the swamps outside Tenochtitlán to create raised fields (chinampas), one of the most highly productive agricultural systems of the ancient world.

A living relict of an ancient species of farmer ants has startled biologists by cultivating a fancy, modern food crop that didn't arise until more than 30 million years after the ants themselves.

Previously documented migrations of West African farmers to East Africa around 2,000 years ago, and then to southern Africa around 1,500 years ago, reshaped Africans» genetics — and obscured ancient ancestry patterns — more than has been known, the researchers report online September 28 in Science.

Ancient DNA from foragers and farmers in eastern, central and western Europe indicates that they increasingly mated with each other from around 8,000 to nearly 4,000 years ago, a team led by geneticist Mark Lipson of Harvard Medical School in Boston reports online November 8 in Nature.

Separate analyses of documents from ancient Egypt — everything from inscriptions on monuments to tax records, poems, and letters — hint that eruptions may have contributed to social unrest, including riots, tensions between Egyptians and their Greek overlords, famines and plagues, and farmers abandoning their land and moving to the cities.

The farmers moved in family groups and stuck to themselves awhile before mixing with local hunter - gatherers, according to a study in 2015 that used ancient DNA to calculate the ratio of men to women in the farming groups.

Comparisons of these genomes with those of other ancient Eurasian peoples indicate that Canaanite ancestry was split roughly 50 - 50 between the early farmers who settled the Levant and immigrants of Iranian descent who arrived later, between 6,600 and 3,550 years ago.

The combined techniques allowed the researchers to gather high quality genomic information from 44 ancient Near Easterners who lived between 14,000 and 3,400 years ago: hunter - gatherers from before the invention of farming, the first farmers themselves and their successors.

Conducting the first large - scale, genome - wide analyses of ancient human remains from the Near East, an international team led by Harvard Medical School has illuminated the genetic identities and population dynamics of the world's first farmers.

They compared their ancient DNA sequences with those of 66 maize landraces (the corn grown by indigenous farmers) from South, Central, and North America and 23 lines of teosinte parviglumis.

First DNA from ancient Anatolian farmers shows how Europeans evolved, suggests early spread of celiac disease

The East African man's genome, the first map of ancient human DNA from Africa, helped to determine that a population closely related to Europe's first farmers made major inroads in Africa, the researchers report online October 8 in Science.

Nearly all of the Indian subcontinent's ethnic and linguistic groups are the product of three ancient Eurasian populations who met and mixed: local hunter - gatherers, Middle Eastern farmers, and Central Asian herders.

The study, published today in Science and funded by Wellcome and Royal Society, examined ancient DNA from some of the world's first farmers from the Zagros region of Iran and found it to be very different from the genomes of early farmers from the Aegean and Europe.

By looking at how ancient and living people share long sections of DNA, the team showed that early farming populations were highly genetically structured, and that some of that structure was preserved as farming, and farmers, spread into neighbouring regions; Europe to the west and southern Asia to the east.

But two new papers suggest that they were at home on both the land and the sea: Studies of ancient and modern human DNA, including the first reported ancient DNA from early Middle Eastern farmers, indicate that agriculture spread to Europe via a coastal route, probably by farmers using boats to island hop across the Aegean and Mediterranean seas.

Ancient DNA from early Iberian farmers shows that the wideheld evolutionary hypothesis of calcium absorption was not the only reason Europeans evolved milk tolerance.

EUROPEANS are a mixed bunch — a hybrid of ancient hunter - gatherers and early farmers with elements of Native American thrown in.

An international team of researchers has sequenced the first complete genome of an Iberian farmer, which is also the first ancient genome from the entire Mediterranean area.

The new study analyzed the remains of ancient Iranian farmers at sites called Wezmeh cave and Abdul Hosein (right) in the Fertile Crescent (shaded).

Artifacts unearthed from various pits at the site appear to share features that are typical of an ancient archaeological practice developed by the first farmers in Scandinavia.

You'll discover an enthusiastic tourism office, a Saturday morning village square farmers» market where you can buy the organic vegetables grown by the locals using traditions time almost forgot, rustic, handmade garden furniture for sale, a local bakery, ancient burial grounds, an organic restaurant and a couple of places to stay.

Highlights of this trip include guided tours of ancient Inca ruins, wandering through remote Fincas where generations of farmers have tended their livestock, and passing traditional Andean villages like Chillipahua and Ancascocha.

Our tours take you chocolate making with a Mayan cacao farmer and his family, swimming through wet caves to an underground waterfall, and exploring ruins of the ancient Maya.

This northwest section of the country is full of contrasts, from the ancient Maya sites to the modern - day Orange Walk Town; from Old Order Mennonite farmers to large scale sugar cane plantations; from the flat, dry plains to thick rainforests and lagoons.

A farmer in Northern Mississippi whose playing of the fife, a small flute fashioned out of bamboo, coupled with his life as a farmer created a space for community, lineage and a transgressive existence connecting ancient African musical traditions within the context of farm life and the agency derived from this routine.

If you know anything about native americans from the southern tip Argentina to the northern tip of Canada, (both which are farther in either direction then Chile and Alaska,) there's two things that are striking very few city civilization like ancient Egypt or ancient India, and very few farmers up until the white men descended upon their poor ar — .

«This porous pot is an adaptation of an ancient technique used by desert farmers for thousands of years which sits inside the planter slowly releases water as the soil dries up for even and consistent watering.»