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Days Were Half An Hour Shorter 70 million Years Ago
... Universiteit Brussel and the lead author of the new study. Climate reconstructions of the deep past typically describe ... of years. Studies like this one give a glimpse of change on the timescale of living things and have the potential to bridge the gap between climate and weather models. What the Shells Tell Us Chemical ...
ancient-origins - 10/03/2020 - 00:36
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The Genetic History of Ice Age Europe
... prehistoric humans paint a picture of dramatic population change in Europe from 45,000 to 7,000 years ago, according to ... on a vast and dramatic scale, at a time when the climate was changing dramatically." Why do Ice Ages occur? A ...
ancient-origins - 05/05/2016 - 21:53
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Human Migration Route Out of Africa Tracked Monsoons
... ancient lake beds, and Dead Sea sediments, along with some climate modeling studies, indicate summers in the region may ... for Climatic Research, Feng He, was independently using climate models to examine how vegetation on the planet has ... the Middle East and to study its isotopic signatures. The climate model “fueled the summer monsoon hypothesis” ...
ancient-origins - 27/11/2019 - 18:14
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Scroll Reveals Ancient Egypt Had Many More Venomous Snakes Than Today
... student Elysha McBride used a statistical model called climate niche modelling to explore how the ranges of ... places that are suitable today, we can add in maps of past climate conditions. It then produces a map showing all the ... ecosystems changed as a result of environmental change. We can use this information to understand the impact ...
ancient origins - 22/10/2023 - 15:00
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Is This Proof Early Man Weaponized Ivory from Woolly Mammoth Tusks to Kill...Woolly Mammoths?
... the time. Yana site destroyed by mammoth tusk hunters and climate change. Picture: Andrey Shubenki It is a 'fragmented rod ...
ancient-origins - 24/10/2017 - 01:57
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30,000-Year-Old Baby Mammoth Is The Most Preserved Mammoth Ever Found in America
... extinct through overhunting. The current thinking is that climate change wiped these creatures out. During the Last Glacial ... steppe ecosystem was only “partially dependent” on climate. Thousands of grazing giant herbivores maintained the ...
ashley cowie - 26/06/2022 - 18:42
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Viking Colonies Collapsed Through Over Hunting Walruses
... of depleted resources and volatile prices, exacerbated by climate change. "Norse Greenlanders needed to trade with Europe for ... Other theories for collapse of the colonies have included climate change - the " Little Ice Age ," a sustained period ...
ancient-origins - 06/01/2020 - 23:00
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Rethinking Homo sapiens? The story of our origins gets dizzyingly complicated
... African Medicine and its Role in Healing in a Modern World Change in the wind Sure, it’s normal for science to be ... ranks are archaeologists, anthropologists, geneticists and climate specialists. It reads like a manifesto, and outlines ... ancestral! Finally, the complicated links between Ice Age climate change and environmental shifts in Africa acting as ...
ancient-origins - 16/07/2018 - 19:00
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Ancient DNA Reveals Anatolian Neolithic Revolution Migration Patterns
... and concepts that were well adapted to the regional climate, which would then have been mixed with local ...
Nathan Falde - 30/08/2022 - 15:00
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How Sumerian Tablets Told the Story of The Great Flood
... ) Drawing Parallels to Modern Concerns in the Face of Climate Change Is it possible for the flood to be something that ... in today's context as we confront the imminent threat of climate change. Looking back, the Sumerian tablets offer ...
Joanna Gillan - 17/10/2023 - 15:04
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Ancient Poop Busts Myth of Lost Cahokia Tribe
... 1700s, when migrations, warfare, disease and environmental change led to a reduction in the local population. Map of ... the National Academy of Sciences journal. It found that climate change in the form of back-to-back floods and droughts played ...
ancient-origins - 28/01/2020 - 22:57
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We think we're the first advanced earthlings - but how do we really know?
... the period in which human activity strongly influences the climate and environment. In the Anthropocene, fossil fuels ... Frank and Schmidt are part of a broader effort to address climate change from an astrobiological perspective, and a new way of ...
ancient-origins - 17/04/2018 - 01:42
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King Charles III Modernizes Coronation and Strips Back Ancient Traditions
... belief that to offer such a gift in the present economic climate would be inappropriate. “In an age where people are ...
Nathan Falde - 11/10/2022 - 22:58
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Ice Age Figurines and the Sanctity of Prehistoric Obesity
... the Ice Age Venus figurines relate not only to a changing climate, but also to a desire for “female obesity.” The ... oversized ancient females hold the “key to understanding climate change and diet.” Ice Age Venus figurines from Europe and ...
ashley cowie - 02/12/2020 - 17:47
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The Miracle of the Sun, 1917: Ancient Angels at Fatima? The Possible Common Origins of Star Gods
... the Fatima events, we should first understand the social climate which existed in Portugal at this time. Viva La ... of Something Trancendental It was in the anarchic social climate of traditional Catholicism and progressive politics ... to the myths and Gods of this time. Ancient Agents of Change Could it be that all of these deities emanate from the ...
David Halpin - 09/12/2016 - 14:46
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The Rise and Fall of Cahokia: Did Megafloods Spell the End of the Ancient Metropolis?
... the area experienced periods of severe flooding as the climate changed over the centuries. Interpretive Center at ... Various theories include political battles, crop failures, climate change and an epic fire . However, Munoz and colleagues were ...
lizleafloor - 06/05/2015 - 13:03
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Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of the Modern World
David Keys found evidence for the climate change in dendrochronology--the study of patterns of tree ... 535/536 there was almost no tree growth, showing that the climate went haywire. A few documentary sources also point to ...
ancient-origins - 22/08/2020 - 17:06
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
... winning Guns, Germs and Steel, the author explores how climate change, the population explosion and political discord create ... for the collapse of civilization Environmental damage, climate change, globalization, rapid population growth, and ...
ancient-origins - 23/09/2017 - 03:11
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Trendy Roman Era Sandals Discovered on Norway Ice Pass
... statement, but despite the havoc that global warming and climate change are wreaking on the world’s ice cover, there is one ... statement, but despite the havoc that global warming and climate change are wreaking on the world’s ice cover, there ...
Sahir - 18/04/2022 - 14:59
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Flat Wrong: The Misunderstood History of Flat Earth Theories
... impatience with the persistent objections put forward by climate change deniers by saying: “We don’t have time for a ... statement in support of the hypothesis of anthropogenic climate change. What do we do, then, when someone actually ...
ancient-origins - 03/01/2019 - 02:03