Sentences with phrase «prehistoric human hunting»

«By showing drastically different wildlife histories — between regions that are climatically similar — we can start to understand the major impact of prehistoric human hunting, which differed across space and time,» Professor Waters says.

According to one hypothesis, prehistoric humans hunted most of the mammoths out of existence soon after coming into contact with them.

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Associate Professor Ian Smith, an Otago archaeologist involved in the study, says it seems that these contrasting wildlife histories reflect differences in prehistoric human - hunting pressure.

An international research team led by University of Otago scientists has documented prehistoric «sanctuary» regions where New Zealand seabirds survived early human hunting.

Although researchers can only speculate on what prehistoric artists were trying to express, hypotheses range from shamanistic and ritualistic activities to attempts to capture the spirit of horses and other animals that ancient humans hunted.

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.

Research by a University of Southampton archaeologist suggests that early humans, who lived thousands of years before Neanderthals, were able to work together in groups to hunt and slaughter animals as large as the prehistoric elephant.

Another hypothesis blames prehistoric humans, whose improved weapons and hunting techniques allowed them to wipe out whole herds of elephants and mammoths (Science, 8 June 2001, p. 1888).

Scientists examining the disappearance of large prehistoric mammals have found evidence that humans and their ancestors drove a sharp reduction in the size of land mammals as hunting skills and weaponry advanced.

It's believed that back in prehistoric times humans got a lot of their calcium from tiny bones in the wild animals and fish we hunted.

Meat is animal flesh that is eaten as food.: 1 Humans have hunted and killed animals for meat since prehistoric times.