Sentences with word «pleistocene»

The team have been investigating human occupation in the Late Pleistocene of eastern Jordan.

Her dissertation research was a study of the influence of pleistocene ice age history, biogeography, and micro-evolutionary and ecological processes in shaping population genetic structure of the California sea mussel, Mytilus californianus.

Columbian Mammoths swam to Santarosae, a large island off our coast during Pleistocene times.

The 14C Record of Late Pleistocene ice advance and retreat in the central Ross Sea, Antarctica.

The skull was discovered in a Portuguese cave and is now used by the anthropologists to determine how hominins, Neanderthals in particular, evolved during the middle Pleistocene epoch in Europe.

Are early Middle Pleistocene hominids from Africa morphologically different from their contemporaries in other parts of the world?

Combustion at the late Early Pleistocene site of Cueva Negra del Estrecho del Ro Qupar (Murcia, Spain)- Volume 90 Issue 351.

Nature Vol 456 13 November 2008 doi: 10.1038 / nature07365 LETTERS Transient nature of late Pleistocene climate variability Thomas J. Crowley & William T. Hyde

The island was submerged during the Pliocene or early Pleistocene eras, and therefore the colonization by plants and animals began only within the last several hundred thousand years.

Fossil remains attributable directly to Inia spp. have been reported from Pleistocene age freshwater deposits of the Rio Madeira Formation in Brazil (Cozzuol, 2010).

[2] Fossils of pygmy mammoths from this Late Pleistocene period 13,000 years ago have been found on the other three northern islands and it is reasonable to assume pygmy mammoths were also present on Anacapa.

Timing and depositional environments of a Middle Pleistocene glaciation of northeast England: New evidence from Warren House Gill, County Durham.

Sima de los Huesos, the «bone pit,» is a cave site in Northern Spain that has yielded the world's largest assembly of Middle Pleistocene hominin fossils, consisting of at least 28 skeletons, which have been excavated and pieced together over the course of more than two decades by a Spanish team of paleontologists led by Juan - Luis Arsuaga.

May 11, 2006, Climate Change Blamed for Pleistocene Megafauna Bust and Boom, by David Biello.

Cougars survived the late Pleistocene extinction when other North American big cats became extinct, thanks to their more flexible feeding habits.

These looked like what a dentist might recognize as human premolars, still set in bone, yet they came from a layer of sediment deposited, Leakey believed, in early Pleistocene time, about a million years ago.

This has been interpreted as: 1) evidence for interbreeding between the «Denisovans» and the earliest modern humans to colonise the region; and 2) implying occupation of Southeast Asia by this archaic population during the Upper Pleistocene [16]--[17].

«It would probably be best to describe Neanderthals and other Pleistocene humans as morphospecies,» Roksandic said.

During Late Pleistocene glacial periods, ice volumes increased markedly along the Antarctic Peninsula [1], possibly reaching 2350 m at Mount Jackson.

According to an analysis of multiple carbon - dated sites conducted in 1984 by James I. Mead and David J. Meltzer, 75 percent of the larger animals (those of more than 40 kilograms live weight) that became extinct during the late Pleistocene did so by about 10,800 to 10,000 years ago.

«The Role of Orbital Forcing in the Early Middle Pleistocene Transition.»

Woolly mammoths roamed over much of Eurasia and North America from the mid-to-late Pleistocene about 300,000 years ago until numbers began to decline 15,000 years ago, before the beginning of the Holocene.

So Christopher Doughty of the Carnegie Institution of Science in Stanford, California, and colleagues wondered whether the extinction of Pleistocene megafauna like the mammoth could be behind the Holocene's shift in vegetation.

Terminal Pleistocene epoch human footprints from the Pacific coast of Canada.

Richard E. F. Leakey, «Further Evidence of Lower Pleistocene Hominids from East Rudolf, North Kenya,» Nature, Vol.

But neither Science nor the AP mentioned that or explained how the current migrations differ from what's been happening since the last Pleistocene glaciers retreated and the Little Ice Age ended.

Pleistocene North African genomes link Near Eastern and sub-Saharan African human populations

Similarly ancient sediments may be preserved in many regions formerly covered by Pleistocene ice sheets.

The last Pleistocene ice age swept the earth around the time of the apes» demise, triggering a shift from forest to grassland.

He has been monitoring small herds of moose, horses, and reindeer at what he calls Pleistocene Park for the past 20 years.

IIRC Dr Soon's latest paper suggested Pleistocene temperature variations (c. 6C swings) was an argument for low sensitivity.

Now, some 40 years later, researchers have studied the rings of the ancient trunks and have read from them details about Earth's climate during the Late Pleistocene when the trees were alive.

But a series of papers published in early 2015 have solidified an emerging paradigm shift in paleoanthropology — Australopithecus africanus and other Pleistocene hominins, traditionally considered not to have made stone tools, have a human - like trabecular bone pattern in their hand bones consistent with stone tool knapping and use.

The association of Paleo - Indian artifacts with extinct Pleistocene mammal remains in various archeological sites within in the Texas Prairie - Savannah Region of eastern North Central Texas, including a site in Collin County and Clovis points recovered from the Brushy Creek Clovis Site in Hunt County, demonstrates that Rockwall region was occupied by prehistoric Native American cultures at least as far back as 13,500 to 13,000 years ago.

So when his team excavated in late Pleistocene strata at Diamond Valley Lake near Murrieta, just miles away from where he had found no bison, and turned up fossils of bison and other mammals, he thought he might have an answer: «This brought home to me the idea that as bison immigrated into areas and their numbers grew, their effect on other large mammal populations might have reached tipping points.»

Curnoe nicknamed the bones the Red Deer Cave people; he and his colleagues compared them with modern and contemporary human remains from Asia, Australia, Europe, and Africa, as well as with Pleistocene East Asian hunter - gatherer skulls.

Recent discoveries of the dung deposits of Pleistocene animals in dry caves and alcoves on the Colorado Plateau, including those of mammoth, bison, horse, sloth, extinct forms of mountain goats, and shrub oxen, have provided floristic assemblages from which temperature and moisture requirements for such assemblages can be deduced in order to develop paleoenvironmental reconstructions tied to an absolute chronology.