Sentences with phrase «used archaeological evidence»

Although researchers traditionally used archaeological evidence to determine when our species domesticated another, DNA can also show when a population went from wild to mild.

The study is the first to use the archaeological evidence for parasites in Roman times to assess «the health consequences of conquering an empire.»

Not exact matches

This charge is simply not true, as there is both philological and archaeological evidence for knowledge and use of this animal in the early second millennium BC and even earlier.

19th century, archaeological finds (e.g. earth and timber fortifications and towns, the use of a plaster - like cement, ancient roads, metal points and implements, copper breastplates, head - plates, textiles, pearls, native North American inscriptions, North American elephant remains etc.) is not interpreted by mainstream academia as proving the historicity or divinity of the Book of Mormon.This evidence is viewed by mainstream scholars as a work of fiction that parallels others within the 19th century «Mound - builder» genre that were pervasive at the time.

And the lack of physical evidence when that evidence should be there, such as the absence of archaeological confirmation of the Exodus, can be used to reject the historicity of some biblical myths.

There is no archaeological evidence to support the use of wheeled vehicles in Mesoamerica during the 2500 - 3000 year history of the Book of Mormon.

For some, these works showed too much caution and too little use of archaeological evidence.

Both volumes were cautious in their use of archaeological evidence, and both were less confident than either Noth or Bright as to what could be known about early Israelite history.

The New Mexico State Legislature and Governor King quickly passed Senate Joint Memorial 5, which stated, in part and with considerable exaggeration: «Whereas, despite New Mexico's long and rich chile history and prehistory, with solid archaeological evidence indicating the continuous use of both red and green chile since the time of Folsom Man some twelve thousand years ago [this is not true], we now find «Texas Man» claiming the noble chile as his; and whereas despite the facts, we hear boasting from east of the Pecos that «The Lone Star State» is the chili capital of the Southwest... and Texas chefs malign the noble «red and green» by blending it into a slurry of kidney beans and onions called chili; now, therefore, be it resolved by the Legislature of the State of New Mexico that the Land of Enchantment bets the «whole enchilada» and its reputation as the Chile Capital of the World against the Lone Star State in the Mother of All Chile Wars Festival to be held May 29 - 31, 1993 at the Doña Ana County Fairgrounds.»

Indigenous to Europe, peppermint was originally consumed for medicinal purposes, with archaeological evidence dating its use back almost ten thousand years.

But the earliest archaeological evidence for crop cultivation in China is 11,000 years old, suggesting that farming was slow to emerge from ancient traditions of plant use.

Chimpanzees have been using hammer stones and anvils for at least 4,300 years, according to new archaeological evidence from Africa

For example, beeswax was detected in cooking pots from an archaeological site in Turkey, dating to the seventh millennium BC — the oldest evidence yet for the use of bee products by Neolithic farmers.

Sacks's survey includes forays into topics ranging from the history of typesetting to the twisty tale of c, k, and q. (The Phoenicians pronounced the precursors of k and q in slightly different ways, while the Etruscans replaced the Greek gamma - which stood for a sound they did not use - with the crescent - shaped c.) He carefully delves into the archaeological evidence for the alphabet's origins, describing the oldest known alphabetic inscriptions, dating to about 1800 B.C., which were recently identified among rock carvings at Wadi el - Hol in central Egypt.

These results support previously published archaeological evidence for stone tool use in australopiths and provide skeletal evidence that our early ancestors used human - like hand postures much earlier and more frequently than previously considered.

Emphasis lies in comparing regional - scale reconstructions of environmental and climatic processes using natural archives, documentary and instrumental data, with evidence of past human activity obtained from historical, paleoecological and archaeological records.

This bundle contains 11 ready - to - use Ancient China Worksheets that are perfect for students who want to learn more about Chinese recorded history which goes back more than 3000 years to 1200 BC under the Shang dynasty and if you include archaeological evidence (like Chinese pottery), it goes back another millennium and a half, to roughly 2500 BC.

A wide array of archaeological evidence such as ceremonial dumps, burials, art, and artificial construction support the idea that caves were used primarily for ceremonial activities.

- ARAMATE (The reconstruction of ecosystem and climate variability in the north Atlantic region using annually resolved archives of marine and terrestrial ecosystems)- CLIM - ARCH-DATE (Integration of high resolution climate archives with archaeological and documentary evidence for the precise dating of maritime cultural and climatic events)- CLIVASH2k (Climate variability in Antarctica and Southern Hemisphere in the past 2000 years)- CoralHydro2k (Tropical ocean hydroclimate and temperature from coral archives)- Global T CFR (Global gridded temperature reconstruction method comparisons)- GMST reconstructions - Iso2k (A global synthesis of Common Era hydroclimate using water isotopes)- MULTICHRON (Constraining modeled multidecadal climate variability in the Atlantic using proxies derived from marine bivalve shells and coralline algae)- PALEOLINK (The missing link in the Past — Downscaling paleoclimatic Earth System Models)- PSR2k (Proxy Surrogate Reconstruction 2k)

He then cited, among other things, a Newsweek article from 1975 (whose author recently lamented the way climate change deniers use his work), archaeological evidence, and Scriptures, in addition to the snowball, as evidence that refutes the claim that «somehow man is so important that he can change [the climate].»

«Here, we present results for sea - level change in the central Mediterranean basin for the Roman Period using new archaeological evidence.

The North - Atlantic evidence for MWP is incontrovertible, given the historical records in Europe and the archaeological evidence such as farms in areas of Greenland that could not possibly be used for farming today.

As part of their archaeological duties, forensic anthropologists specialize in the use of digging tools to excavate the remains of a subject without physical damage or alteration to evidence.

Although it is difficult to look far back into human history and understand exactly how area rugs were first used, it is safe to assume, based on archaeological evidence, that they have been a part of human life since around the year 3000 B.C..