Sentences with phrase «revealed human footprints»

In 2013, at Happisburgh on the eastern coast of England, wave action revealed human footprints on a tidal mud flat beside an eroding cliff.

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Beach excavations on Canada's Calvert Island revealed 29 distinct human footprints (dark brown in this illustration of one excavation site) from around 13,000 years ago.

Excavations in 2014 revealed a suspected human footprint.

The dig has revealed perhaps the world's largest collection of Byzantine shipwrecks, along with rare burial structures, the bones of dozens of animal species and thousands of prehistoric human footprints.

At the most fundamental level, the ecological footprint incorporates six measurements — city cover, carbon dioxide pollution, farm fields, fisheries, forests and rangeland — to reveal «the aggregate area of land and water ecosystems required by specified human populations to produce the ecosystem goods and services they consume and to assimilate their carbon waste.»

Laetoli footprints reveal bipedal gait biomechanics different from those of modern humans and chimpanzees

Despite Blomqvist et al.'s reservations, Footprint results show that: (1) most countries are in ecological deficit, increasingly dependent on potentially unreliable trade in biocapacity; (2) humanity is at or beyond global carrying capacity for key categories of consumption, particularly agriculture (factoring in soil loss and ecosystem degradation would reveal additional deficits); (3) global carbon waste sinks are overflowing; and (4) the aggregate metabolism of the human economy exceeds the regenerative capacity of the ecosphere (and the ratio is increasing).