Sentences with phrase «sediments at archaeological sites»

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Flood sediment settled over collapsed buildings and crushed bodies some 15 miles downstream at the archaeological site of Lajia.

From sediment samples collected at seven archaeological sites, the researchers «fished out» tiny DNA fragments that had once belonged to a variety of mammals, including our extinct human relatives.

Now, at an open - air archaeological site called El Salt in Alicante, Spain, researchers have gathered fossilized feces in the sediment where Neandertals lived at different times between 40,000 and 60,000 years ago, before modern humans arrived in the region.