Sentences with phrase «personal ornaments»

Neandertals drew on cave walls and made personal ornaments long before encountering Homo sapiens, two new studies find.

Since it's our first married Christmas, I also wanted to start adding more personal ornaments.

«I think it is quite possible that Neandertals were capable of making and using personal ornaments.»

Ancient people used some sloth bones unearthed at the site (right, top and bottom) as personal ornaments, based on notches and holes in those finds.

Personal ornaments previously found at a coastal cave in southeastern Spain are older than the cave art, dating to around 120,000 to 115,000 years ago, scientists report February 22 in Science Advances.

EARLY ARRIVALS These notched sloth bones, perhaps personal ornaments, are evidence of an early human arrival to South America, scientists propose.

He adds that only one other Châtelperronian site has produced personal ornaments, in much smaller numbers, meaning that claims that Neandertals were capable of such symbolic expression rests heavily on the evidence at the Grotte du Renne.

Even more ancient personal ornaments go back to at least 100,000 years ago in Africa and the Near East.

A number of archaeological discoveries during the past twenty years have shown that from at least 100,000 years ago some populations in Africa, especially those in southern Africa, made pigmented compounds, wore personal ornaments, made abstract engravings, and manufactured bone tools.

But distinct Neolithic - style personal ornaments and architecture also turn up in late Mesolithic sites such as Lepenski Vir in Serbia, a large settlement rich in burials and art such as boulders sculpted with half - human, half - fish images.

The authors also suggest that some late Neandertal innovations, such as sophisticated personal ornaments and stone tools, were actually the result of «acculturation»; that is, these behaviors were either copied from, or inspired by, their modern human cousins.

Once regarded as brutish and dumb compared to modern humans, Neandertals are now often credited with «modern behaviors» such as crafting sophisticated tools and symbolic personal ornaments.

Although Neandertal symbolism was relatively rare, personal ornaments become more common at their sites when modern humans migrated into the area about 40,000 years ago.

Hendricks is willing to violate his own privacy; the «undressed» quality is emphasized by the amount of personal ornament he still wears.»

If you have a child practicing their name these Personalized Star Ornaments for kids are a good way to give them some practice and make a personal ornament for the tree.

Both papers, published online November 2 in Nature and already attracting controversy, support the proposal that modern humans established a European culture dating to 45,000 years ago that included sophisticated stone tools and personal ornaments.

This personal ornament was created roughly 60,000 years before Homo sapiens reached Europe, say paleontologist Davorka Radovčić of the Croatian Natural History Museum in Zagreb and her colleagues.

They have been used in various industrial fields such as consumer electronics, housing facilities, personal ornaments, anti-seismic engineering and medical equipment.

Personal ornaments, often in the form of beads worn as necklaces or bracelets, are considered by archaeologists as a key sign of sophisticated symbolic behavior, communicating either membership in a group or individual identity.

This personal ornament was created roughly 60,000 years before modern humans — Homo sapiens — reached Europe.