Sentences with phrase «rock shelter»

The man was about 30 years old, his bones showed no signs of vigorous physical activity, and he was buried in a painted rock shelter.

The community that lived under the spacious rock shelter was of a size to match the space.

University of Wyoming students excavate a prehistoric rock shelter in the Big Horn Mountains of northern Wyoming during the summer of 2015.

Located in Nusa Penida, Klungkung Regency, Atuh Beach offers tourists one of the island's most striking view — shiny turquoise waters softly slamming against rugged mountains, long stretches of white - sand beaches that are perfectly laid - out in the curved beach, and an abundance of rock shelters.

Boyd began with a comparative study of two painted rock shelters called Rattlesnake Canyon and Panther Cave.

Archaeologists, who studied ancient tools, ornaments, and human remains in the prehistoric rock shelter Riparo Bombrini, discovered how early homo sapiens survived a climate - changing supervolcano eruption This discovery offered clues how humans can survive climate change.

Published this week in the archaeological journal Antiquity, the research shows that these earliest people skilfully produced paintings of animals in rock shelters from southwest China to Indonesia.

Julien Riel - Salvatore, from Université de Montréal, Canada, and Fabio Negrino, from Università di Genova, Italy analyzed archaeological finds that include ancient tools, ornaments, and human remains discovered in the prehistoric rock shelter Riparo Bombrini in Liguria, Italy.

He arrived in a fragile state, physically and mentally, and worked on «The Waste Land» sitting in the Nayland Rock shelter on Margate Sands.

EARLY ARRIVALS Excavations at a Brazilian rock shelter near the center of South America (left) suggest that humans hunted giant sloths there more than 20,000 years ago.

Join fellow hiking enthusiasts for a trek through Inwood Hill Park on Sun., Jan. 10th from 11 a.m. — 1:00 p.m. Hikers will see the old rock shelters used by Lenape Natives at...

Evidence of people's presence at Santa Elina rock shelter, located in a forested part of central - west Brazil, so long ago raises questions about how...

She was one of the first to hear from Clarkson's team about new scientific dates for the Madjedbebe rock shelter in Australia's Arnhem Land, a region the Mirarr still call home.

The writer — suffering both physically and mentally after WWI — penned a seminal text whilst sitting in the sands» Nayland Rock Shelter.

The landscape beyond Cape Town is outstanding and one can hike for hours scrambling over rocks, examining rock shelters and caves for ancient wall paintings.

In addition to eight caves, they have found remains of five mud - brick ramps that might have been used to ease ships into the water and a shallow rock shelter used for storage and cooking.

An international consortium led by researchers from the University of Tübingen and Harvard Medical School analyzed ancient human genomes from a ~ 7,000 - year - old early farmer from the LBK culture from Stuttgart in Southern Germany, a ~ 8,000 - year - old hunter - gatherer from the Loschbour rock shelter in Luxembourg, and seven ~ 8,000 - year - old hunter - gatherers from Motala in Sweden.

«In 1936 Fell's cave, a small rock shelter in Patagonia, was the first site in the world to show that humans had hunted Ice Age megafauna.

They knew that humans had been in the area at least 35,000 years ago, the age given to ocher crayons and ocher - smeared stone tools they had excavated from the Leang Burung 2 rock shelter nearby.

But unlike in Europe, the oldest surviving rock art of Southeast Asia is more often found in rock shelters rather than deep caves, suggesting experiences in deep caves can not have been their inspiration as has long been argued for Europe.

Early settlers may have floated down the Pacific Coast in canoes before heading 2,000 kilometers east to the remote rock shelter, or they might have taken an inland route from North America, archaeologist Denis Vialou of the National Museum of Natural History in Paris and his colleagues report in the August Antiquity.

The shells were found in the Aviones cave and the Antón rock shelter, Neandertal sites in southeast Spain radiocarbon dated to between about 40,000 and 50,000 years ago.

Excavations at a near - by overhanging rock shelter revealed a significantly older epoch: it housed a Palaeolithic settlement site dating back to 600,000 to 300,000 BC.

Cuncaicha rock shelter (4480 masl) has a robust, well - preserved, and well - dated occupation sequence spanning the past 12.4 thousand years (ky), with 21 dates older than 11.5 ka.

AbstractThe subfossil remains of 14 cimicids (Hemiptera: Cimicidae) were recovered during archaeological investigations of the Paisley Five Mile Point Cave site (35LK3400), an exceptionally well - dated (n = 229 radiocarbon dates) late Pleistocene — early Holocene rock shelter site in south - central Oregon.

Adovasio, J. M., D. Pedler, J. Donahue, and R. Stuckenrath 1999 No Vestige of a Beginning nor Prospect for the End: Two Decades of Debate on Meadowcroft Rock Shelter.

A reconstruction of a Neanderthal man (right) based on skull found at the La Ferrassie rock shelter in Dordogne Valley, France.

The one thing everyone knows about Texas is the Battle of the Alamo, but most of Texas history occurred before the Alamo, before the Anglo colonists arrived; it was the history of the native peoples who lived there over the course of 14,000 years, some of whom left huge, magnificent cosmological murals in rock shelters along the Pecos River before they moved on as the climate changed and water disappeared.

Everyone in the entire region knew of the immense rock shelter and the great number of people it housed.

Visit the Strandloper Cave (also known as the Matjes River Rock Shelter) from here.

Many caves are located in this area, including Petroglyph, Pothunters, Satabe, Footprints, St. Margaret's Cave, Pottery Cave, Te Tun Cave, Caves Branch Rock Shelter (CBRS) and others.

Evidence of people's presence at Santa Elina rock shelter, located in a forested part of central - west Brazil, so long ago raises questions about how people first entered South America.

The Madjedbebe rock shelter, formerly known as Malakunanja II, has always been central to the issue.

Archaeologists, who studied ancient tools, ornaments, and human remains in the prehistoric rock shelter Riparo Bombrini, discovered how early homo sapiens survived a climate - changing supervolcano eruption This discovery offered clues how humans can survive climate change.

In particular, Cave 2, of the eight rock shelters on the site, has yielded thousands of insect remains as well as some the oldest preserved evidence of human activity in North America.

Julien Riel - Salvatore, from Université de Montréal, Canada, and Fabio Negrino, from Università di Genova, Italy analyzed archaeological finds that include ancient tools, ornaments, and human remains discovered in the prehistoric rock shelter Riparo Bombrini in Liguria, Italy.

Then, on Christmas morning in 2004, Bard was clearing what she thought might be the back wall of a rock shelter when she stuck her hand through the sand into an open space.

A few months later, she returned to a rock shelter called White Shaman (shown in the photos on page 1 and page 4).

Chaix, an archeozoologist at the Museum of Natural History in Geneva, was asked to examine the jaw after it was unearthed from a rock shelter in Isere, France, near Grenoble.

It was a similar story earlier this year when the discovery of a 37,000 - year - old engraving in a rock shelter in Abri Castanet, France, supposedly of female genitals, was reported.

Virtually untouched by modern man, the area includes villages of stone pit houses built halfway underground, rock shelters, cliff - side granaries still holding corncobs and wild grass seeds, and hundreds of colorful rock art panels — pecked out with a hand tool or painted — some predating the Fremont.

That theory took a big hit last January when archaeologists reported the discovery of stone tools in a rock shelter located in the present - day United Arab Emirates.

Archaeologist Daniel Adler from the University of Connecticut, working with David Lordkipanidze and Nikolaz Tushabramishvili of the Georgian State Museum and their colleagues at the University of Haifa, Hebrew University, and Harvard University, analyzed animal remains in a rock shelter in the Republic of Georgia that was used by Neanderthals and later by modern humans.

At the site where hobbits were originally found — a rock shelter called Liang Bua — the species lived between 190,000 and 50,000 years ago.

Humans again visited the rock shelter from around 10,120 to 2,000 years ago, the researchers say.

The rock shelter has seen phases of human activity from the Mesolithic to the medieval period, with its prehistoric rock paintings known to be the highest painted representations of animals (quadrupeds) in Europe.

Studying the rock paintings of Abri Faravel, a rock shelter in the Southern French Alps 2,133 m above sea level, archaeologists used car batteries to power laser and white - light scanners in a logistically complex operation.

«As this site is so unusual, we made the decision to carry out a laser - scan of the rock shelter and the surrounding landscape, plus a white - light scan of the actual paintings.

As archaeologist Chris Clarkson was excavating a rock shelter in northern Australia one day in 2015, May Nango of the aboriginal Mirarr group brought her grandchildren to look at the pit.

A rock shelter in western Pennsylvania was periodically occupied from about 19,000 B.C. to A.D. 1000.