Sentences with phrase «stone artifacts found»
In a second paper, Max Planck geoscientist Daniel Richter and colleagues date 14 stone artifacts found in and just above sediment that held the new fossil discoveries, allowing the researchers to narrow down the fossils» age to approximately 300,000 years ago.
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In fact, the distribution pattern they found showed two distinct clusters of artifacts, one near some stone slabs, which they interpret as the remnants of a burial platform, and another in the nearby depression where the hikers found the Iceman's body.
They found stone artifacts — mostly flakes that were dropped as hominins knapped rocks to create tools for butchering animals — lying in sediments almost 1.85 million years old.
Scientists have found a new organic molecule that may be the mysterious culprit that is turning some ancient stone tools blue and casting a blue sheen over other irreplaceable archaeological artifacts in an old armory in Verona, Italy.
Artioli's preliminary analysis found that the stone artifacts were contaminated by hydrocarbons, but at first he couldn't identify the key pollutant.
Researchers have found more than 15,000 stone flakes and cores, as well as more than 900 artifacts, in layers of sediments dating from 1.76 million to 1.85 million years ago.
Led by archaeologist Alessandro Vanzetti of the University of Rome, La Sapienza, the researchers say that Ötzi's body and artifacts were in fact carefully placed on a stone platform 5 meters away from where the body was later found.
The team took extensive steps to rule out the migration of artifacts between layers, for example by refitting together broken stone tools found in the same layer.
Scientists working in the desert badlands of northwestern Kenya have found stone tools dating back 3.3 million years, long before the advent of modern humans, and by far the oldest such artifacts yet discovered.
The West Turkana Archaeological Project team, co-led by Drs. Harmand (with Stony Brook University's Turkana Basin Institute and the CNRS in France) and Lewis (TBI), had found the earliest stone artifacts, dating to 3.3 million years ago.
The West Turkana Archaeological Project team has found the earliest known stone artifacts, dating to 3.3 million years ago.
«When we had the volcanic ash identified, we were stunned, because that would make this stone tool one of the oldest artifacts in North America,» Patrick O'Grady, with the University of Oregon Archaeological Field School, who led the excavations at the Rimrock Draw Rockshelter, where the tool was found, said in a statement.
The interesting point here is that no Neanderthal remains have been found at this site, only stone tool artifacts said to be of the same Mousterian technology as that used by H. neanderthalensis.
al., reported finding stone artifacts and modified wood with radiocarbon dates of 22,500 ± 500 and 23,320 ± 1000 years B.P. from the Santa Elina rockshelter in Mato Grosso, Brazil (Gruhn 1997:29).
The first evidences of human appearance in Bali date back to the Stone Age, tens of thousands years ago, with the founding of few artifacts that are believed to be reminiscent of small bands of...
Artifacts found in the cave are mostly ceramic vessels, stone tools and ceramic whistles which may have been used for rituals within the caves.
The first evidences of human appearance in Bali date back to the Stone Age, tens of thousands years ago, with the founding of few artifacts that are believed to be reminiscent of small bands of hunter - gatherers.
It is widely believed that the island was used as a cemetery in pre-Columbian times as pottery, carved stone artifacts, and the region's infamous stone spheres have been found there in excavations.