Sentences with phrase «of prehistoric people»

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Indeed the people of these prehistoric times lived in a state of constant angst.

Otherwise, I'll assume that no one here has even a mildly curious hypothesis about how and why different prehistoric people all came up with creation stories that are crude and primitive narratives of the multi-billion year creation theories that we bandy about today.

This wasn't a prehistoric civilization that allowed this annihilation of entire group of people.

People coming in the tournament for the sake of football (Messi, Sanchez, Cavani, James etc) were brutally downed every game by prehistoric players.

The Bell Beaker culture comprised at least two genetically distinct populations and initially represented a spread of ideas more than of people, unlike other notable prehistoric archaeological cultures in Europe.

Analysing the ways that mitochondrial DNA sequences differ across a large number of living people has helped to establish prehistoric population trends, but this record stretches back only 200,000 years to the point where all humans alive today shared a common female ancestor.

But it's one of the few ways we have to start assembling hypotheses about prehistoric people's beliefs and culture, in the hope that we can one day test them with newer scientific techniques.

At a recent conference on the topic, organized by the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany, presentation after presentation highlighted how prehistoric people burned the forest, cleared it, farmed it, nurtured certain of its tree species, and even built cities in it, leaving lasting, if subtle, marks.

But careful analysis of ancient remains as well as better understanding of the causes of cancer suggests that, tobacco - related cancers aside, prehistoric peoples suffered from cancer at about the same rates as we do today.

The team analyzed the contours of the land where the stories were told and used scientific reconstructions of prehistoric sea levels to date the origins of each of the stories — back to times when fewer than 10 million people were thought to have inhabited the planet.

Some of the first research on the importance of acoustics to prehistoric peoples was done by Iegor Reznikoff, an anthropologist of sound at Université Paris Ouest, who in the 1980s visited cave paintings and carvings in southern France that are about 25,000 years old, among the oldest known human art.

«The group of prehistoric inhabitants of the Zagros region separated more than 50,000 years ago from other people of Eurasia and were among the first who invented farming.»

Now, a study of more than 100 dog burials in prehistoric Japan claims to provide the strongest evidence yet that early dogs did indeed help people hunt — and may have been critical to human survival in some parts of the world.

ASK most people about early transmission of information over long distances, and they will probably mention prehistoric signal fires on hilltops.

«They tell us that the prehistoric peoples in the Cumberland Plateau, a section of the Appalachian Mountains, used the rather distinctive upland environment to map their conceptual universe onto the natural world in which they lived.»

Teams of researchers in the American Southwest and North Atlantic Islands have found that historic and prehistoric peoples in these regions who had created vulnerabilities to food shortfall were especially susceptible to impacts from climate challenges.

Since prehistoric times people have lived by the seas and rivers for the access to cheap and quick transportation and access to food sources and trade; without human populations near natural bodies of water, there would be no concern for floods.

Rolando González - José, an anthropologist at the University of Barcelona, and his team had minutely measured 33 skulls that were between 300 and 2,700 years old, only to discover that they resembled neither prehistoric northeastern Asians — those who presumably would have crossed the land bridge — nor modern American Indians; the fossils looked more like the progenitors of Southeast Asian peoples.

For example, they can provide vital tools (along with language distribution) to reconstruct the prehistoric movements of peoples.

A farm in Ohio has yielded what may the leftovers of an ancient meal: bones from a mastodon that prehistoric people killed and ate.

Residue analyses show that between 1600 and 1000 B.C.E., people poured opium alkaloids into pots crafted in the shape of the seed capsule of the opium poppy, in what Collard calls «prehistoric commodity branding.»

Using DNA from 400 prehistoric skeletons, researchers show that the Beaker people rapidly replaced 90 % of the Stone Age people in Britain within a few hundred years, according to a study published this week in Nature.

A study of prehistoric DNA has challenged the established theory that says people first reached the Americas via a land bridge in the Arctic

These people live much as their ancestors did for thousands of years, so the scientists reasoned that these people's sleep habits reflect prehistoric human behavior.

Although it might seem that the glowing lights from smartphones and other trappings of modern life reduce people's ability to get a decent amount of shut - eye, scientists now suggest that people do not get any less sleep today than they did in prehistoric times.

DNA of ancient skeletal remains of people from southeastern Europe was used to determine migration patterns across Europe during prehistoric times.

Clovis people Prehistoric humans who inhabited much of North America between about 13,000 and 12,600 years ago.

Those are believed to belong to the Clovis culture, is a prehistoric Paleo - Indian culture known for their hunting abilities and thought to be one of the first group of people in North America.

► A man and a woman steal a Medevac helicopter and fly to stop creatures from destroying a city: they see a giant wolf jump into the air and bite three helicopters in half while the wolf and a giant gorilla destroy buildings and vehicles into rubble and smoke; something swims fast under the surface of a river, it rises high in the water to reveal a prehistoric spiny crocodile with an armored tail and a spiked ball at its end, many huge teeth that include side tusks, and wings behind its ears; it upsets a large touring craft full of people who fall into the water, screaming, and it roars at the sky before joining the other two creatures in destroying buildings.

Arlo the Apatosaurus joins forces with an unlikely little caveman friend named Spot for the kind of prehistoric adventures people would have had millions of years ago if that stupid giant meteor hadn't ruined everything.

Map skills Prehistoric Man Customs / customs of the world Mesopotamian - First Historic people (also covered other groups in the region including the Phoenicians) Ancient Egypt Greeks Romans Middle Ages Introduced civilization of China and Japan (around Chinese New Year time) Rise of Europe Introduced civilization of India If, time, did a short unit on Economics at the end of the year.

Jean Auel is an American author best known for her Earth's Children ® books, a series of novels set in prehistoric Europe that explores interactions of Cro - Magnon people with Neanderthals.

The conventional view, and one widely represented in both fiction and nonfiction, is that prehistoric people took wolf pups from their dens and reared them to think of people as their «pack.»

Our visit to the Museum of London started with a look into the lives of people in the Lower Thames Valley from prehistoric times until the creation of the Roman city of Londinium.

Numerous communities of dark - skinned peoples are present in North Africa, some dating from prehistoric communities.

This is the only Channel Island on which steatite, a type of soapstone coveted by prehistoric peoples, is found.

Or explore the Daintree rainforest on foot, walking among the prehistoric flora and fauna, hearing first - hand from your Indigenous guide of the Kuku Yalanji people.

Studio Wildcard has announced that ARK: Survival Evolved will be a frantic first person, multiplayer dinofest where you can tame and ride on over 60 species of the prehistoric creatures.

In prehistoric societies, the people revered the woman as the source of all life, because they basically were.

Great, but to wrap up some of people's base pay on whether or not the general consensus opinion on an extremely skewed scale of aggregation is at a certain mark just seems... prehistoric.

Inspired by the art and architecture of prehistoric societies, such as Stonehenge, Speidel explores the relationships between people and objects and the core of humanity running between in her sculptural objects.

The mutable quality of obsidian made it a material often used by prehistoric people to make tools.

Assuming the remainder of North America except for Mesoamerica, habitable and unihabitable, of about 19 million square kilometers supports an average of only the prehistoric paleolithic population density of about 0.01 people per square kilometer, the result is a population of about 1.9 million people.

To guard «the most glorious heritage a people ever received,» he protected 230 million acres of land and created 23 new national parks, and passed the Antiquities Act that let presidents «declare by public proclamation historic landmarks, historic and prehistoric structures, and other objects of historic and scientific interest... to be National Monuments.»

The prehistoric environment described above is not compatible with modern - day civilization and its billions of infrastructure and supply chain - dependent people.