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Why does culture sometimes evolve via sudden bursts of innovation?
... occurring after relatively long periods of little change. For example, the early human archaeological record is ... of Western Australia. ( public domain ) The process of change in the frequency and distribution of cultural traits ... be lost following a change in environment – think of a climate becoming warmer or cooler – or migration to a new ...
ancient-origins - 14/06/2016 - 03:49
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Cueva de los Tayos Expedition 2019: Finding Answers in Amazonia
... drier season for the region. Ecuador has a very diverse climate depending whether you are by the coastal lowlands, ...
ancient-origins - 08/01/2020 - 01:59
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Scientists draw up definitive list of genes that make us human
... fate of the Neanderthals include an inability to adapt to climate change, competitive exclusion, or extinction by encroaching ...
aprilholloway - 03/01/2014 - 03:47
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3,500-Year-Old Mummified Bear Found in Siberian Permafrost
... brown bear. Source: lucaar / Adobe Stock The Changing Climate and Siberia’s Melting Permafrost As the permafrost ... in the region tens of thousands of years ago when the climate was much colder than it is today, reports Radio Free ...
Sahir - 26/02/2023 - 13:58
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The Carolina Bays and the Destruction of North America
... tell us a great deal about our world, its history, its climate, its vulnerability, and possibly even our future. ... taking into account not only the Coriolis angle-change, but also making a further allowance for the impact ... would have had a significant cooling effect on world climate. Modern climatologists try to scare us with ...
ralph ellis - 06/11/2015 - 00:41
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French Wine With a Hint of Rome Revealed By Ancient Grape DNA
... that the wine industry could be vulnerable because of climate change. The study involved a large multidisciplinary team of ... risk to winemaking in the future, especially as our climate is warming. Global warming and more extreme weather ...
Ed Whelan - 12/06/2019 - 02:02
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The Oldest Tree in Europe has been Discovered in Italy
... many questions about the environment in the past and how climate change might impact on forests in the future. A Shoot in the ... It can help us to understand how trees can adapt to climate change. Italus could also tell us how trees will ...
Ed Whelan - 31/05/2018 - 13:57
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Atlantis of Britain: Prehistoric Territory of Doggerland Prepares to Unveil its Secrets
... the ancient environment of Doggerland. They judge that the climate change diminished the territory of Doggerland so much that it ... DNA, at such a scale is also likely to provide a step change in our understanding of past environments and our ...
Alicia McDermott - 02/09/2015 - 15:20
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Evolution of a Native American Society: A Journey Through Ancient History
... in the West” to settle in what is now the Southeast. The climate was drier and colder than today in the centuries ... melted as temperatures rose and fluctuated. As the climate changed, some of the large animals that the ancient ...
chickasaw - 14/06/2014 - 00:37
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The Isolated Ennedi Geological Formations Are Rarely visited But Never Forgotten
... of fauna and flora, before the onset of cataclysmic climate change. The area was once a vital part of the trade route ... a pastoralist people who once thrived in this area before climate change turned it into a desert. Prehistoric rock art ...
Ed Whelan - 01/02/2019 - 01:49
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Hair Texture Helped Ancient Human Brains Expand 2-Million-Years-Ago
... Body Hair The specially prepared dummy was tested in the climate-controlled wind tunnel. (Prof. George Havenith/ ... University ) The prepared dummy was finally placed in a climate-controlled wind tunnel with heat lamps directed on ...
ashley cowie - 09/06/2023 - 14:53
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New Research Shows Maya Civilization Could Have Survived Droughts
... Putting two and two together, scholars concluded that climate change and its environmental consequences would have made it ... around 900 AD. While not discounting environmental and climate-related causes entirely, they are certain more was ...
Nathan Falde - 06/01/2022 - 14:00
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Viking Dogs Followed Their Masters to Valhalla
... which is necessary for its survival in the harsh Nordic climate. The Norwegian Elkhound and Buhund are close ...
ancient-origins - 11/10/2017 - 01:56
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Ancient Continent Discovered Hiding Beneath Europe
... extreme weather patterns and the effects of the changing climate there has never been a safer time to live on planet ... from Irish Manuscripts Used to Track Volcanic Activity and Climate Change Evidence of Major Cataclysm on Mars Which Would Have ...
ashley cowie - 12/09/2019 - 13:59
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Study Shows Riverland Region Aborigines Were Thriving 29000 Years Ago
... 15,000 to 29,000 years ago, during a period of extreme climate and environmental change . Craig Westell, a PhD student who took part in the ... the ice age in Australia was possibly the most severe climate faced by any humans that ever settled on the vast ...
Ed Whelan - 15/07/2020 - 22:48
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Old Maps and Hi-Tech Scans Reveal A Lost City’s Watery Past at Jerash Jordan
... earlier than previously thought,” and were caused by climate change. Water sources and infrastructure at Jerash mapped ...
ashley cowie - 01/06/2018 - 23:20
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Faith or Economy? Why Pagan Religions Lost Their Position in Europe
... reasons. Sometimes it was connected with changes in the climate and environment, but usually it happened for ... to become more familiar to the potential followers. The change of the domination of religion didn't start just like ... with many unpleasant events. But it also involved a change of organization of the territories influenced by the ...
Natalia Klimczak - 06/08/2016 - 00:46
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Did a Brutal Volcanic Eruption Lead People to Abandon Their Pagan Gods and Embrace Christianity?
... Iceland. The results are reported in the journal Climatic Change . The eruption of the Eldgjá in the tenth century is ... and Italian chronicles from the same period. Then the climate cooled as the dust layer reduced the amount of ... then looked at medieval chronicles to see how the cooling climate impacted society. "It was a massive eruption, but we ...
ancient-origins - 20/03/2018 - 17:54
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5000-Year-Old Papua New Guinea Artifacts Rewrite Neolithic History
... complex culture on the island. About 10,000 years ago, the climate changed to better suit the planting of crops and the ...
ashley cowie - 26/03/2020 - 16:27
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The Maya’s Mystifying Collapse – Has the Truth Finally Been Uncovered?
... These findings line up with evidence from the 1990s; climate records that were pieced together at the pertinent ...
lizleafloor - 26/08/2018 - 18:53