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Teeth ‘Time Capsule’ Reveals That 2 million Years Ago, Early Humans Breastfed For Up To 6 years!
... survive during a period of substantially changing climate. Perhaps this way of life hastened the extinction ... of a tooth – illuminating changes in diet, mobility, or climate through time. This is an important advancement, as it ... The amounts of these elements in our bodies can change significantly depending on our diet, and these changes ...
ancient-origins - 17/07/2019 - 23:02
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Cataclysm, Mass Extinctions, and the Consequent Myths
... uniformitarianism , which suggests a rather slow, gradual change over time. In geology, the present is key to the past. ... geologic time is marked by a relatively sudden change in climate about 10,000 years ago or more, from a cold glacial ... Account for a Cataclysmic Event What could have caused the climate to change so suddenly? Theories that account for this ...
Dr Pat Hanratty - 04/12/2019 - 23:04
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Israeli Researchers Say Human Cooperation Sparked Neolithic Revolution
... which represents perhaps the most profound cultural change in human history. Tackling the Neolithic Revolution ... Neolithic period any easier. They concluded that this change was the result of people’s conscious decision to ... are not entirely convincing. The usual suspects include climate change (the world getting colder or drier), spurts of ...
Nathan Falde - 15/04/2023 - 14:59
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Lifting the Lid on Antarctica: Ancient Landscape Revealed Beneath Antarctica
... insights into the ice sheet's historical responses to climate changes and promises to reshape our understanding of ... the way it might respond to past, present and future climate change.” “So, we’re investigating a small part of that ...
ancient origins - 25/10/2023 - 22:51
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Could Resurrecting Mammoths Help Stop Arctic Emissions?
... But a group of geneticists from Harvard are hoping to change this by cloning living elephant cells that contain a ... and reduce future emissions as temperatures rise due to climate change. While this might sound like a far-fetched ... pools have been likened to “ sleeping giants ” in our climate system. If they wake up, the resulting greenhouse gas ...
ancient-origins - 13/05/2018 - 01:55
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Aboriginal Australians Co-Existed with the Megafauna for at Least 17,000 Years
... remain: were people responsible for their demise or was it climate change? Our new research, published in the latest ... jaw can be seen on display at Mungo National Park . Climate the Catalyst for Extinction? By taking sediment ...
ancient-origins - 15/01/2017 - 14:55
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Maya Were Likely Taught to Grow Corn by Southern Migrants
... some that were unusually well-preserved for a tropical climate. Possible sacred maize object found in stream at ... 5,600 years ago, the researchers discovered a significant change occurred in the genetic makeup of the people living in ... practices and knowledge to the region. This sparked a change in diet that saw the ancestors of the Maya come to be ...
Nathan Falde - 28/03/2022 - 22:48
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Was Prayer to the Ancient Solar Gods enough to Change the Renowned Irish Weather?
... to Sulis at the baths, and her popularity as an agent of change for worshippers continues among Wicca and Pagan ... and today’s archaeologists, while not prepared to change the description of the site from ‘passage tomb,’ ... Was Prayer to the Ancient Solar Gods enough to Change the Renowned Irish Weather? ...
lizleafloor - 20/04/2018 - 19:02
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Timeline of the Harappan Civilization is Pushed Back 2,500 Years as Researchers Find New Reason for Its Fall
... evidence that the civilization did not fall due to climate change but was influenced by it. The team discovered the ... bone and tooth phosphates of these remains to unravel the climate pattern. The oxygen isotope in mammal bones and teeth ...
Natalia Klimczak - 02/06/2016 - 00:48
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Arabian Peninsula Was a Hotbed of Hominin Cultures 400,000 Years Ago
Three things that we’ve heard before ad nauseam – climate change, human migration, and Africa being the cradle of ... is a fascinating new study which shows that prehistoric climate change repeatedly affected and caused pockets of ...
Sahir - 02/09/2021 - 14:47
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How Taming Fire Changed Everything for Early Humans (Video)
Robbie Mitchell - 04/03/2024 - 23:31
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Oldest Fossils of Egyptian Cobra Ancestors Found in Fayoum Depression
... Here tourists can visit the Wadi al-Hitan Fossil & Climate Change Museum, in the Fayoum Depression which includes an ... El-Hares added that it was the adaptability of snakes to climate change and new environments that helped them survive ...
Sahir - 04/03/2022 - 01:00
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Why Dinosaurs Extinction didn’t affect other species similarly?
... accepted that a meteor hit Earth resulting in a massive change in climate. Other theories suggest that a gigantic volcano exploded resulting in climate change, or that extinction didn’t happen suddenly ...
johnblack - 26/07/2013 - 04:55
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New Findings Change the Theories of Human Origins
... CC BY-SA 3.0 ) Complex Origin and Human Evolution When the climate was more benign the different groups would reconnect ... and reconnected many times over 400,000 years, because of climate change and environmental factors. The Guardian reports that ...
Ed Whelan - 06/01/2020 - 18:46
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The Past Teaching the Present: Ancient Sanskrit Texts Discuss the Importance of Environmental and Species Conservation
... environment. Researchers have found that environmental change over the last 60 years is happening at a rate unseen in the past 10 000 years. Human-driven climate change, the loss of biosphere integrity, land system ... impact of the Maya civilization is still visible today Climate Change may have Caused Collapse of Civilizations in ...
dhwty - 15/09/2015 - 00:59
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Unique inscriptions in Chinese cave reveals record of ancient droughts
... in caves and lakes have shown a possible link between climate change and the demise of several Chinese dynasties during the ... of developing measures to counter present and future climate change impacts. It is the first time that it has been ...
Robin Whitlock - 16/08/2015 - 03:53
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New Scientific Proof Emerges for the Cause of the Downfall of the Maya Civilization
... results are reported in the journal Science . "The role of climate change in the collapse of Classic Maya civilization is ... 1990s, however, researchers were able to piece together climate records for the period of the Maya collapse , and ...
ancient-origins - 04/08/2018 - 01:52
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Droughts, Not Gold, Drove Attila to Invade the Roman Empire
... as best they could with severe changes in the Danube climate. Attila and his Hordes Overrun Italy and the Arts, by ... at tree ring data to find historical information about the climate in Europe over the last 2,000 years. Study author, ... dry summers.” Dr. Susanne Hakenbeck said the severe climate shifts noted in the tree rings suggest that Attila ...
ashley cowie - 17/12/2022 - 14:00
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Early Humans Evolved in Ecosystems Unlike Any Found Today
... outcome of long-term grassland expansion coupled with arid climate pulses. The new paper adds to growing evidence that ... different the past was compared to the present." Drying Climate and Grasslands Drive a Shift What drove shifts in ... dust records suggesting the region experienced pulses of climate drying that would have hit non-ruminants especially ...
ancient-origins - 10/10/2019 - 14:05
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Extreme Heat Followed by Downpours Once Characterized ‘Hothouse Earth’
... 10 per cent. Colonization of the Americas Caused Climatic Change Dinosaur-dooming Asteroid Struck Earth at 'Deadliest ... to show that there are still a lot of surprises in the climate system . Although a 30-degree increase in sea surface ... is way more than is being predicted for human-caused climate change, pushing atmospheric models into unfamiliar ...
Sahir - 09/11/2021 - 17:57