Sentences with phrase «with archaeological data»

Insights into sea level changes, combined with archaeological data on the history of the island's fauna through excavation, has never been done before in charting Zanzibar's history.

A migration 13,000 to 14,000 years ago, in line with the archaeological data, is also possible.

Not exact matches

The problem with that argument is that with this new evidence they are not making a claim based on «silence» they are basing it on actual archaeological data.

The response, published in Antiquity and co-authored with Oxford University archaeologist Jane Kershaw, offered an «alternate interpretation» of the PoBI data regarding Danish Vikings — one that integrated archaeological evidence as well as historical and linguistic clues.

Together with the archaeological and linguistic evidence, the genetic data tipped the scales heavily in favor of the kurgan hypothesis.

Roel Lauwerier from the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands corroborated Lenders» archival findings with data from archaeological sites at which fish bones were uncovered.

In a new study published in The Quarterly Review of Biology, Dr. Karen Hardy and her team bring together archaeological, anthropological, genetic, physiological and anatomical data to argue that carbohydrate consumption, particularly in the form of starch, was critical for the accelerated expansion of the human brain over the last million years, and coevolved both with copy number variation of the salivary amylase genes and controlled fire use for cooking.

To get to the bottom of things, he mapped the ages and locations of 1,323 woolly mammoth remains and 576 archaeological sites, and he merged them with data from plant and pollen records, and climate change information from ice cores in Greenland.

Marrying that DNA data with archaeological findings, the context in which the bones were discovered, for example, may tell researchers more about when, where and how humans first engaged with plants and animals.

With each looted archaeological site, robbed museum, exploded monument or burned archive, we lose data on the world's earliest - known agriculture, settled communities, organized religions, state - level polities, writing systems and great empires.

And the use of geographic information systems, which allow us to put archaeological and environmental data into digital landscapes and play with it and develop different scenarios, is a major revolution.

This paleo climatic data and the distribution of archaeological sites associated with the HP, as well of that of the Still Bay tradition, which existed in the same environments about 5,000 years before (76,000 to 71,000 years ago), enabled the researchers to model the emergence of these traditions with two predictive algorithms that permitted them to reconstruct the ecological niche associated with each tradition and determine whether these niches differed significantly through time.

«With disparate time estimates coming from the genetic studies, we need archaeological data to fix the chronology for when people are present in different places,» Rademaker says.

To clarify this point, researchers at EURAC compared Ötzi's mitochondrial DNA and Y chromosome with available data from numerous ancient samples found at 14 different archaeological sites throughout Europe.

Frantz et al. 12 also estimate a relatively recent east — west dog divergence (14,000 — 6,000 years ago), which, placed within the context of existing archaeological data, they explain with a dual origin of dog domestication.

«While the precise implications of the CI eruption for cultures and livelihoods are best understood in the context of archaeological data sets,» write Black and colleagues, the results of their study quantitatively describe the magnitude and distribution of the volcanic cooling and acid deposition that ancient hominin communities experienced coincident with the final decline of the Neanderthals.

These results are in close agreement with archaeological and fossil data.

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.

His study emulates the exploratory and archaeological method of prospection — involving image, text, video and data gathering — with the aim to generate an audiovisual archive that represents a collective knowledge base.

Andrew is interested in combining archaeological methods and theory with ethnographic data and computational modeling to develop new ways to push the boundaries of our understanding of the social, cultural, and evolutionary aspects of the human past.

Summary of Qualifications * Participated in an archaeological field school with Washington State University at Fort Vancouver National Historic Site * Exceedingly proficient in research, data collection and management, and field excavation * Very skilled in scientifically analyzing data in field and laboratory environments * Strong military work ethic as evidenced by being awarded Soldier of the Month twice * Maintained a 3...