Sentences with phrase «on archaeological evidence»

Although it is difficult to look far back into human history and understand exactly how area rugs were first used, it is safe to assume, based on archaeological evidence, that they have been a part of human life since around the year 3000 B.C..

Prior work had suggested that domesticated dogs came from the Middle East based on archaeological evidence and domestication patterns for other animals.

From 50,000 years ago to 10,000 years ago, when humans lived in small groups of hunter - gatherers, the rate of killing was «statistically indistinguishable» from the predicted rate of 2 %, based on archaeological evidence, Gómez and his colleagues report today in Nature.

Brokaw has written the comprehensive book A History of the Khipu based on archaeological evidence and colonial - era manuscripts that mention the devices.

The association with David is not based on any archaeological evidence but on circumstantial grounds only.

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The problem with that argument is that with this new evidence they are not making a claim based on «silence» they are basing it on actual archaeological data.

Rigorous conclusions rely on the number of independent attestations, the time of the publications, the content as it relates to the subject and time period, and any related archaeological evidence.

Discussions of science are based on nonscientific literature, Jesus is presented as the fulfillment of «Old Testament» prophecy, and archaeological findings are cited as evidence of Bible's complete historical accuracy.

My wife and I were on an archaeological dig in the Southwest in which the indisputable evidence was that members of one village had killed and burned the inhabitants of a neighboring village — and had then built their own homes upon the burned bones and charred roofs of their neighbors.

On the Pacific coast of Chiapas, Mexico, a Mokaya archaeological site provides evidence of the beverages dating even earlier, to 1900 BCE.

Research into lethal wounds found on a human skull may indicate one of the first cases of murder in human history — some 430,000 years ago — and offers evidence of the earliest funerary practices in the archaeological record.

For more on ancient evidence of children's play, see «Ancient kids» toys have been hiding in the archaeological record.»

Posted on June 17 on the bioRxiv preprint server, the research supports archaeological evidence about the multiple origins of farming, and represents the first detailed look at the ancestry of the individuals behind one of the most important periods in human history — the Neolithic revolution.

The earliest archaeological evidence of our relationship with cats is a kitten buried beside a human on the island of Cyprus about 9,500 years ago.

Dueling genetic studies based on the DNA of modern dogs and wolves suggest the fellowship between humans and dogs could have been forged in the Middle East, Central Asia, East Asia or, as Goyet's archaeological evidence suggests, in Europe.

A third - century coin, recently excavated in southern England, has brought to light an unknown chapter of Roman history: the troubled reign of Domitianus, an emperor whose hold on power was so fleeting that the only other archaeological evidence of his existence is a similar coin found a century ago and dismissed as a hoax.

Together with new radiometric dates and the existing archaeological evidence, the results, presented here on 6 August at the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America, suggest the following timeline: A moist climate from 9000 to 6000 years ago supported early farmers.

«Most of the archaeological evidence for movement is based on artifacts, but artifacts can be stolen or copied, so they are not a real good proxy for actual human movement,» says archaeologist Doug Price of the University of Wisconsin in Madison, who tracks ancient migration by analyzing isotopes.

In my opinion, Hancock's idea is based entirely on negative evidence — what he thinks is wrong with the accepted archaeological timeline — and he offers no positive evidence of this purported lost civilization: no metal, no writing, no tools and not even pottery.

Lead author Abidemi Babatunde Babalola, a recent graduate of Rice with a Ph.D. in anthropology and a visiting fellow at Harvard University, came across evidence of early glassmaking during archaeological excavations at Igbo Olokun, located on the northern periphery of Ile - Ife in southwestern Nigeria.

They found phytoliths on the edges of hand axes they uncovered in Peninj — evidence of «the oldest non-controversial wood - working activities recorded in the archaeological record so far.»

• A New Look at Old World Money For more than a century, archaeological excavations have uncovered evidence that ancient Bronze Age civilizations carried on long - distance trading of tin, copper, lapis lazuli, and gold.

* But whereas scientists have uncovered a wealth of archaeological evidence — including microscopic starches on pottery shards that point to the taming of many crops from the Americas as far back as 10,000 years ago — the record is blank when it comes to the tomato.

Unlike early human hunter - gatherer groups, Neanderthals concentrated almost entirely on hunting big game, as evidenced by the abundance of large animal bones in Neanderthal archaeological sites.

This image was based on evidence from butchered meat bones and hunting tools at archaeological sites, as well as from studies of carbon, nitrogen, and other chemicals in the fossilized teeth of Neandertals, which can reveal their diets.

Most scholars assume that it is completely fictional, but recent archaeological evidence suggests that it could be based in part on a real conflict in Ireland 3200 years ago.

«This is a great piece of work,» says Alexander Bentley, an anthropologist at Durham University in the U.K. Bentley adds that the new findings, including the signs of violence on the skeletons — such as multiple skull fractures — are consistent with other archaeological evidence from Central Europe that men raided outside communities and captured their women.

To date, Southeast Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia have all been proposed as potential locations for the origin of dog domestication based on modern genomic data, archaeological evidence and ancient mitochondrial lineages5, 7,9,33.

It wants to appeal to eggheads, so it opens with a title card that promises what follows is based on «new» archaeological evidence; then, for the alleged delight of the peanut gallery, it trots out the same period epic dog - and - pony show to which we've been repeatedly subjected since Zulu Dawn.

What we do know about the history of the Chihuahua is based on myth and archaeological evidence.

The island scrub jay was first described by American ornithologist Henry Wetherbee Henshaw in 1886 [3] and an archaeological specimen at site SCRI - 192 dating from 1780's -1812 on Santa Cruz Island is the earliest evidence of the bird in the historic period.

We found no fossil or archaeological evidence of foxes on any of the Channel Islands prior to 7160 cal BP.

She is not ready to divulge the results of her analysis, but based on her published evidence, she describes Bluefish Caves as «the oldest - known archaeological site in North America.»