EU: European, FE: Far Eastern, NA: North American, SA: South American, HW: Hawaiian. The columns indicate the marker positions used to define the introgression boundaries (common abbreviated comm.) and the origin (remaining columns). The counts correspond to the number of marker positions ...
Rheas have been an important food source to human communities in South America, providing meat and especially eggs, and thus playing a crucial role in the development of South American societies. Two extant species currently exist: Rhea americana (greater rhea) and Rhea pennata (lesser rhea). ...
Caral: an ancient South American city Huge earth and rock mounds rise out of the desert of the Supe Valley near the coast of Peru in South America. These immense mounds appear simply to be part of the geographical landscape in this arid region squeezed between the Pacific Ocean and the Ande...
When Columbus arrived on the shores of Hispaniola, a rich and complex civilisation already existed that forms the core of American cultural history. Exploring ancient southeastern Indian sites from the metropolis of Cahokia (near present-day St Louis), ancient capital of the American heartland, to ...
North American ancient civilizations In the Inuit society, death had a period of mourning, which expelled the ghost from the place of death. The dead was bound up and covered, and was never taken out through the door, so that the ghost would not know how to return. The body was even...
Living South Asians have low lean tissue mass relative to height, which contributes to their elevated type 2 diabetes susceptibility, particularly when accompanied by obesity. While ongoing lifestyle transitions account for rising obesity, the origins of low lean mass remain unclear. We analysed proxie...
Asphalts from Middle Eastern Archaeological Sites In the large riverine cities of ancient Mesopotamia, asphalt was used as mortar by the ton, but the technology was known thousands of years earlier in settlements towards the northeast in the foothills and valleys of the Zagros ... RF Marschner,...
This uncertainty is largely due to the lack of coca leaves recovered from highland archaeological sites. Several leaves recently found at Convento in the northern part of the Ayacucho Valley are the fi rst direct evidence from an archaeological context that, based on ceramic stylistic grounds, ...
LHASA, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- Chinese archaeologists have excavated more than 20 tombs thought to be around 2,000 years old in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region. The excavation, an important part of ongoing joint field explorations in Ngari Prefecture, was launched by Sichuan University in...
while also recognizing that other scenarios are plausible. The report also identifies the presence of both very robust and tall individuals (outside the range of almost all South Asians), and more gracile individuals, and hypothesizes based on this the presence of at least two distinct groups of...