Sentences with phrase «several thousands of years earlier»
Willenbring noted that the new date for the glacier maximum in the Mediterranean region, which is several thousands of years earlier than the date the maximum was reached in central Europe, will help provide more context for creating accurate global climate models.
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The earliest confirmed evidence of controlled fire use dates to several thousand years ago but some palaeoanthropologists argue control began as far back as 1 to 2 million years ago.
But previously unknown variants of the plague - causing bacterium Yersinia pestis infected people several thousand years earlier, a new study finds.
The geologists found that, although temperatures were cool in the range of 19,000 - 23,000 years ago, conditions were also relatively dry, so the glaciers did not regain the size they had obtained several thousand years earlier, when rain and snowfall totals were higher.
Cold Spring Harbor, NY — Using several different methods of DNA analysis, an international research team has found what they consider to be strong evidence of an interbreeding event between Neanderthals and modern humans that occurred tens of thousands of years earlier than any other such event previously documented.
The EPA has also worked for several years with the federal General Services Administration to help purchasers select environmentally friendly cleaning products for all federal government offices — an early and substantial step in transforming the increasingly plentiful, mainstream presence of green cleaning products now finding their way into thousands of homes and schools.
We had several thousand older ones early last year and we were selling them down at a much lower price,» Holden Executive Director of Sales and Marketing Phil Brook told motoring.com.au.
During the early years of student loan repayment, my wife and I also had a $ 10,000 car loan, several thousand dollars in medical expenses from the birth of our oldest children and about $ 2,000 in credit card debt.
Taking place a week earlier this year, Frieze Masters brings together several thousand years of art in a unique, contemporary context.