Sentences with phrase «prehistoric people»
The phrase "prehistoric people" refers to individuals who lived a very long time ago, before written records were made. They are often studied by archaeologists to learn about their way of life, tools they used, and how they survived. Full definition
Analysis of the skulls of prehistoric peoples in Mexico reveals significant regional variation in the facial characteristics of indigenous populations — indicating that there were notable physical differences between geographically separate groups before the arrival of Europeans.
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This strategy actually came from Churchill's colleague John Shea, a paleoanthropologist at Stony Brook University in New York who reconstructs the behavior of prehistoric peoples by analyzing their stone tools.
Many prehistoric people lived by the sea — but rising sea levels have drowned their settlements.
Dr Mélanie Roffet - Salque, lead author of the paper, said: «The most obvious reason for exploiting the honeybee would be for honey, as this would have been a rare sweetener for prehistoric people.
Warfare casualties in the Southwest — and among prehistoric peoples in general — were anything but «modest.»
Otherwise, I'll assume that no one here has even a mildly curious hypothesis about how and why different prehistoric people all came up with creation stories that are crude and primitive narratives of the multi-billion year creation theories that we bandy about today.
«Prehistoric people resilient in the face of extreme climate events.»
They also selected images by artists who might have known quite well how a four - legged beast moves: prehistoric peoples with ample opportunity to observe the animals they hunted.
The group scooped soil samples from seven European and Russian caves known to have housed prehistoric peoples.
But it's one of the few ways we have to start assembling hypotheses about prehistoric people's beliefs and culture, in the hope that we can one day test them with newer scientific techniques.
At a recent conference on the topic, organized by the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany, presentation after presentation highlighted how prehistoric people burned the forest, cleared it, farmed it, nurtured certain of its tree species, and even built cities in it, leaving lasting, if subtle, marks.
Long before we started asphalting roads, prehistoric people around the world used bitumen, which seeps from the ground naturally in places.
But careful analysis of ancient remains as well as better understanding of the causes of cancer suggests that, tobacco - related cancers aside, prehistoric peoples suffered from cancer at about the same rates as we do today.
Prehistoric people first made patterns and images by rubbing chunks of charcoal and iron oxide onto cave walls.
«Same growth rate shown for farming, non-farming prehistoric people.»
A farm in Ohio has yielded what may the leftovers of an ancient meal: bones from a mastodon that prehistoric people killed and ate.
THE extent to which prehistoric people cared for their
The conventional view, and one widely represented in both fiction and nonfiction, is that prehistoric people took wolf pups from their dens and reared them to think of people as their «pack.»
Handaxes are considered the longest - used tool in human history and figure stones are naturally occurring stones that prehistoric people collected for their figurative qualities, such as faces and animal forms.
Employing humor as well as fact, this guide to the afterlife elaborates on both cultural and religious traditions among prehistoric people and modern ones.
Clovis is the name of prehistoric people.
Teams of researchers in the American Southwest and North Atlantic Islands have found that historic and prehistoric peoples in these regions who had created vulnerabilities to food shortfall were especially susceptible to impacts from climate challenges.
This is the only Channel Island on which steatite, a type of soapstone coveted by prehistoric peoples, is found.
Without a million things to distract them, it was likely surprisingly easy for prehistoric people to nod off when the sun went down, meaning they had ample time for plenty of quality shuteye.
As for wars, prehistoric peoples were far more murderous than states in percentages of the population killed in combat, Pinker told me: «On average, nonstate societies kill around 15 percent of their people in wars, whereas today's states kill a few hundredths of a percent.»
Some of the first research on the importance of acoustics to prehistoric peoples was done by Iegor Reznikoff, an anthropologist of sound at Université Paris Ouest, who in the 1980s visited cave paintings and carvings in southern France that are about 25,000 years old, among the oldest known human art.
Some prehistoric people in the Americas were cooking up spicy meals even before they could make the pottery to serve them in.
Dolphins and whales escaped for the simple reason that prehistoric people could not hunt enough giant marine mammals to have a major impact on the population.
On page 1206 of this issue, Jaenicke - Després, Doebley, and their colleagues (1) provide the latest chapter in this detective story and suggest that prehistoric people were quick to adopt GM corn.
«They tell us that the prehistoric peoples in the Cumberland Plateau, a section of the Appalachian Mountains, used the rather distinctive upland environment to map their conceptual universe onto the natural world in which they lived.»
With these discoveries comes a single giant one — all these drawing and engravings map the prehistoric peoples» cosmological world.
Because the area is made mainly of chalk, prehistoric people would have seen no apparent natural origin for the stones.
Prehistoric people may have succumbed to the prion disease that killed this man from a New Guinea tribe.
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Representative Becky Edwards said that the votes were «a nod to the prehistoric people who lived in our state and an acknowledgment of the contemporary land art that is so unique in our state.»
The mutable quality of obsidian made it a material often used by prehistoric people to make tools.