Sentences with phrase «on ancient bones»

«I was working only on ancient bones, but the police kept bringing recent bones to me, so I took a course in forensics and was ready just when I was needed.

DNA found on the ancient bone of an Arctic Wolf suggests that Huskies are one of the oldest of dog breeds.

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We've been excavating a site on the beach about 10 meters from the high tide line for about 10 years, finding stone tools and ancient mammal bones and teeth.

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.

Since then, he has become the go - to guy for anyone trying to identify a deposit or scar on a bone fossil that might suggest an ancient ailment.

Archaeologists have found clever ways to uncover ancient humans» impact on today's jungles, from ancient collagen in bones to laser scanning by aircraft.

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.

On a trip to collect DNA samples from ancient horse bones in Mongolia, Orlando got a whole new perspective on domesticatioOn a trip to collect DNA samples from ancient horse bones in Mongolia, Orlando got a whole new perspective on domesticatioon domestication.

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.

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.

Because ancient DNA is almost always badly damaged, its signal is easily swamped by even a speck of more modern contaminants — anything from bacteria that invaded the bone after death to the roast beef sandwich residue on a researcher's hands.

A new study of impact marks on the bones of ancient prey shows that such sophisticated killing techniques go back at least 90,000 years ago in Africa and offers a new method of determining how prehistoric hunters made their kills.

We had information about ancient Chinese beer brewing from inscriptions on what are known as oracle bones — pieces of bone or shell used to try to tell the future.

Now, a study uses a new method that relies on ancient proteins to identify and directly date Neandertal bone fragments from Grotte du Renne and finds that the connection between the archaic humans and the artifacts is real.

These are the findings of anthropological investigations carried out on bones of warriors found during excavations in the ancient city of Ephesos.

Butchery marks previously found on ancient dog bones at other Mayan sites suggest the dogs were raised for slaughter.

Ancient DNA extracted from fossil bones and museum specimens has shed new light on the mysterious loss of the Tasmanian tiger (thylacine) from Australia's mainland.

Dogs» special relationship to humans may go back 27,000 to 40,000 years, according to genomic analysis of an ancient Taimyr wolf bone reported in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on May 21.

Our guests will be two experts on studying ancient diseases with two different methods — using ancient DNA or studying fossil bones.

The technique relies on the radioactive isotope carbon - 14, whose radioactivity diminishes over time in a predictable manner, allowing researchers to calculate the age of ancient human sites using charcoal from fires or the bones of the prehistoric humans themselves.

There's only so much palaeontologists can learn about prehistoric animals from fossilized bones, so on rare occasions when ancient soft tissues turn up, it's worth taking note.

And based on the fact that these ancient human bones were found in Morocco — nowhere near the «Garden of Eden» in East Africa where we've long assumed modern humans evolved, and from which they dispersed — it also means that our origins are probably much more complicated than we assumed, geographically speaking.

The team then focused on one skeleton in particular to verify this hypothesis, and analyzed the ancient DNA and lipids from its bones to do so.

My version is bone canvas stacked - wedge sandals with Chanel Rose Insolent on my toes, the palest blossom - pink 3/4 sleeve, summerweight cashmere cardigan by J. Crew over a white cotton tee, khaki crops with a wide, cuffed bottom, an ancient straw bag with a flower pattern weave in pink, cream, and pale taupe (J. Crew, circa 1993), small platinum hoops, and Ray - Ban Dekko sunglasses (circa 1992).

«So our 2015 Closing Night Party is going to be our biggest, boldest and bloodiest ever, as we take over a bona fide ancient cowboy town on the Austin outskirts and dress it up to match the unrepentant misanthropic western rage of our official closing film, BONE TOMAHAWK!

This is a bundle of primary school activities to use for Chinese New Year: 1 - Make an oracle bone from clay with Ancient Chinese symbols on.

We help ourselves to a fresh salad bar set in an ancient dugout canoe, then move on to ceviche and grilled T - bone steak.

Players will forge their own path as they explore ruined cities, forests of fungus, temples of bone and other fantastic lands, all on their way to uncovering an ancient mystery.

Drawing on ancient trading customs, the form references the tradition of the tally stick, bones or wooden batons once used to record value and transactions.

For most Canadians, Drumheller conjures up images of dinosaur bones and ancient fossils, but entrepreneur Sean Clark's expedition in the southern Alberta town is focused on a very current obsession: Bitcoin.