Sentences with phrase «with ancient bones»

These are the direct descendants of the people who settled the Americas after the last Ice Age — the same people Baker sometimes studies in her work with ancient bones.

Not exact matches

It bids us plunge into the depths of Christianity's harrowing sublimity — into, that is, our ossuaries encrusted with bone, our catacombs whose chambers ancient hymns once filled.

Of course, Ken Morgan has history in his bone - marrow: if science permitted it, I'm certain that there would be proof that he is directly descended from the cyfarddwyddiaid, the Bardic storytellers of ancient Wales with Y Tri Chof — the three memories — knowledge of languages, genealogies, and (crucially) history that were the tools of their trade.

Higham's team collected and radiocarbon - dated about 20 samples of artifacts and animal bones with cut marks, which presumably were discarded by ancient humans.

They scrambled to outdo one another by publishing DNA sequences that were ever more ancient, with one fantastically claiming to have sequenced 80 - million - year - old DNA from dinosaur bones.

A 400,000 - year - old genome from ancient human bone could herald a missing link species — taking us closer than ever to our common ancestor with Neanderthals

To better gauge how women's skeletal strength has changed over time, Macintosh's team compared bones of ancient farm women with those of living women, including different types of athletes.

In light of these findings, the ancient California and 3.4 - million - year - old East Africa bones should also be reexamined with the possibility of croc damage in mind, White says.

Authors of the ancient butchery papers agree that bone marks made by crocodiles deserve closer study and careful comparison with proposed stone - tool marks.

It had been a different story at RAS's zoological museum a few days earlier, where she wasn't allowed to sample the bones she had come for because they were already covered with drill marks from other researchers who, like her, hoped to mine the relatively small number of ancient polar bear samples to reveal their evolutionary history.

To establish the fossil's identity, the researchers compared a 3 - D image of the ancient finger bone with corresponding bones of present - day people, apes and monkeys, as well as Neandertals and other ancient hominids.

With utmost care, she drilled off a small piece of each bone, putting it into a plastic bag to take back to Eske Willerslev's ancient DNA lab at the University of Copenhagen, where she was a postdoc.

Along with more than 100 other fossils representing nearly 40 other Ardipithecus individuals, Ardi was discovered in the scorched landscape of Ethiopia's Afar Rift, a place where torrential rains regularly wash up traces of ancient stone and bone from different eras.

Pointing to a crack in the skull, he describes the next agonizing step: An ancient surgeon smashed into the bone with a chisel in a final, futile effort to free the arrowhead.

Ancient proteins, however, offer the molecular - level precision of aDNA with the sturdy longevity of a fossilized bone.

DNA extracted from the bone belongs to a mysterious ancient hominin that last shared an ancestor with our species and Neanderthals about a million years ago.

One of the ancient canids Germonpré and her team have studied, from Predmostí in the Czech Republic, was laid to rest with a bone in its mouth.

The short snout and wide braincase of a canid skull (top) found in Belgium's Goyet Cave, in comparison with two ancient wolves found in nearby caves (middle, bottom), led scientists to claim the Goyet bones are from a 36,000 - year - old dog.

Oldest human genome dug up in Spain's pit of bones A 400,000 - year - old genome from ancient human bone could herald a missing - link species — taking us closer than ever to our common ancestor with Neanderthals.

Now, with hundreds of thousands of ancient skeletons (and their petrous bones) still to be analyzed, the field of ancient DNA is poised to both pin down current questions and tackle new ones.

We can now look for ancient human DNA at sites with no bone remains — and perhaps confirm claims such as that humans were present in the Americas 130,000 years ago

Meanwhile, scientists who study the evolution of walking have had to make do with only a few glimpses of ancient feet from this time because the foot's delicate bones are rarely preserved.

Our guests will be two experts on studying ancient diseases with two different methods — using ancient DNA or studying fossil bones.

Contamination — one of the biggest concerns with ancient DNA analyses — is also less likely to be a problem with osteocalcin, because it is found only in vertebrate bones.

What is now dry desert was once a beach littered with the bones and teeth of ancient marine reptiles and dinosaurs.

Here in the US, bone broths (which date back to ancient Greece and even Hippocrates himself who recommended them to people with digestion issues) have become popular in diet and beauty circles for the same reason: they provide a way to «drink collagen.»

As in the liquid you get from simmering the bones of a healthy animal with spices and herbs. As with other food trends (weâ $ ™ re looking at you, ancient grains and fermented foods), bone broths are certainly nothing new.

My version is bone canvas stacked - wedge sandals with Chanel Rose Insolent on my toes, the palest blossom - pink 3/4 sleeve, summerweight cashmere cardigan by J. Crew over a white cotton tee, khaki crops with a wide, cuffed bottom, an ancient straw bag with a flower pattern weave in pink, cream, and pale taupe (J. Crew, circa 1993), small platinum hoops, and Ray - Ban Dekko sunglasses (circa 1992).

Like a lost kingdom from Edgar Rice Burroughs, Wakanda is a place where spears and bone necklaces emerge from flying machines and the ancient keeps company with the futuristic.

This is a bundle of primary school activities to use for Chinese New Year: 1 - Make an oracle bone from clay with Ancient Chinese symbols on.

The first five ingredients (which are required by law to be sorted by how the amounts of each contained in the food) of their Classic Real Lamb and Green Peas with Ancient Grains variety of dog food are deboned lamb, lamb meal (which are the bones of the animal crushed into a fine powder — a vital ingredient in dog food), peas, brown rice, and barley.

Absent respect for the teachings of the scientific method all we're left with is the casting of chicken bones and the ancient science of astrology to overcome superstition and ignorance through knowledge.