Sentences with phrase «said archaeological studies»

Ingram said archaeological studies show that droughts led to hardship, malnutrition and struggles among Native Americans in California and the Southwest.

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So you take what the early church fathers, the ones trying to legitimize their religion as much as possible, the ones saying that all the similarities are products of the devil, and just take their word rather than actual archaeological evidence and anthropological study?

«Considered in total, this study provides important early archaeological evidence for meat eating, hunting and scavenging behaviors - cornerstone adaptations that likely facilitated brain expansion in human evolution, movement of hominins out of Africa and into Eurasia, as well as important shifts in our social behavior, anatomy and physiology,» Ferraro said.

The fossilized remains, which belong to the cimicid family (a group that includes today's common bedbugs), were found during archaeological investigations of the Paisley Five Mile Point Cave site, researchers said in a new study detailing the findings.

Though plaque is prolific in the archaeological record, most researchers viewed calculus as «the crap you scraped off your tooth in order to study it,» says Amanda Henry, an archaeologist at Leiden University in the Netherlands.

For instance, at Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico, which is a park solely because of its remarkable Native American architecture, the «existing staff numbers are far too small to adequately document and preserve the archaeological sites, and to fully educate the public,» says Stephen Plog, an archaeologist at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, who has studied the Chaco Culture.

«With disparate time estimates coming from the genetic studies, we need archaeological data to fix the chronology for when people are present in different places,» Rademaker says.

That's about 2000 years earlier than suggested by previous studies focusing on a different, more selective set of genes known as the exome, but it's in line with recent archaeological findings that point to distinctly Tibetan permanent settlements appearing between 3600 and 5200 years ago, Yang says.

Although it's easy to assume that people tend to disastrously impact environmental health,» says Armstrong, «through studying the archaeological record and working with Indigenous collaborators, we see many examples of ancient societies that have successfully responded to environmental instability by conscientiously managing their resources and behaving in ways that promote resilient and biodiverse habitats.»

«The study provides DNA evidence of what we were seeing in the archaeological record,» said Joshua Akey, an evolutionary biologist at Princeton University.

These most intimate of ancient human artifacts were often ignored or discarded during many previous archaeological excavations, but careful study of materials painstakingly recovered from human paleofeces says a lot about what ancient human dietary practices were like, given their incredibly high content of fiber, undigested plant remains.