” said James Kennett, a UC Santa Barbara emeritus professor of geology. Such intensity, he added, could only have resulted from an extremely violent, high-energy, high-velocity phenomenon, something on the order of a cosmic impact.
Because Dadiwan is among the oldest unequivocally agricultural settlements in China, and the earliest in the arid northwest, a fuller understanding of agricultural evolution, and potentially chicken domestication, requires greater confidence in the taxonomic identity of the faunal remains recovered at the ...
(Supplementary Fig.5a,e), indicative of strong hydrodynamics during the floods as shown by particle size results that contain more coarse-sized sediments (Fig.2b, red arrow). Overall, the regional landscape before the construction of Pingliangtai and other contemporary settlements was dominated by ...
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In: Viking settlements and Viking society: Papers from the Proceedings of the Sixteenth Viking Congress. pp 407–421 Sindbæk SM (2017) Urbanism and exchange in the North Atlantic/Baltic, 600-1000CE. In: Hodos T (ed) The Routledge handbook of archaeology and globalisation. Routledge, ...
In the 1580s, England had yet to establish a permanent colonial foothold in the Western Hemisphere, while Spain's settlements in Central and South America were thriving. Sir Walter Raleigh sponsored a series of exploratory, and extraordinarily perilous, voyages to the coast of present-day No...
"It's interesting that one of the earliest Icelandic genomes was already a mixture of Norse and Gaelic DNA, which indicates that people were mixing before they arrived in Iceland, perhaps related to the Viking settlements in Ireland and Scotland," says Driscoll. ...