* Ancient DNA provides new insights into the history of south Siberian Kurgan people

Ancient DNA analyses have determined that there were a number of cryptic evolutionary lineages in several moa genera.

Ancient DNA of 13 Sarmatian remains from Pokrovka kurgan burials in the southern Ural steppes along the Kazakhstan and Russian border was extracted for comparative analysis.

Ancient DNA has been retrieved from Thracian populations from the south-East of Romania, which might be helpful in suggesting the genetic make-up of pre-Slavic Bulgaria.

Category: Ancient DNA ( human )

( 2005 ) Ancient DNA Provides New Insights into the Evolutionary History of New Zealand's Extinct Giant Eagle.

Ancient DNA evidence suggests that the ancestors of the speakers of the Hmong – Mien languages were a population genetically distinct from that of the Tai – Kadai and Austronesian language source populations at a location on the Yangtze River.

Ancient DNA evidence also shows a connection between speakers of Tai – Kadai speaking populations and Austronesian language speaking populations, and a genetically distinct population at a different location on the Yangtze River as a possible source of Hmong – Mien languages.

Since the Wraith were created by the Iratus bug absorbing Ancient DNA, the Wraith language seems to be a derivative of the Ancient language, and the two use the same writing system ; the Wraith language is therefore relatively easy to translate by experienced Ancient speakers.

Ancient DNA extracted from three individuals ascribed to a TRB horizon in Gökhem, Sweden, were found to possess mtDNA haplogroups H, J, and T.

Ancient specimens and DNA contamination: a case study from the 12S rRNA gene sequence of the ‘‘ linh duong ’’ bovid ( Pseudonovibos spiralis ).

In " Metamorphosis ", the Goa ' uld Nirrti learns via an Ancient DNA Resequencer that Jonas is different from other humans, but she is killed before this is further investigated.

Ancient DNA extracted from the remains of two males who dated back to the Karasuk culture were determined to be of Y-chromosome haplogroup R1a.

No warrior has ever been shown to speak in the series due to their cloned reproduction of Ancient technology and wraith DNA.

* Alan Cooper, principal investigator, Ancient DNA

* The Smithsonian Institution's Human Origins Program: Ancient DNA and Neanderthals

* Ancient DNA

For aDNA, the DNA isolated from ancient specimens, see Ancient DNA.

Isaac Newton's 1728 The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended studies a variety of mythological links to Atlantis.

Ancient Greek philosophers such as Hippocrates and Aristotle laid the foundations of ecology in their studies on natural history.

His work on other religions was interrupted by his sudden death in 1920, which prevented him from following Ancient Judaism with studies of early Christianity and Islam.

A. J. M. Wedderburn further argues that resurrection in Ancient Egypt differs from the " very negative features " in Judaeo-Christian tradition, as the Ancient Egyptians conceived of the afterlife as entry into the glorious kingdom of Osiris .< ref >"< span dir =" ltr "> Baptism and resurrection: studies in Pauline theology against its Graeco-Roman background </ span >

Theology ( from Ancient Greek meaning " God " and ,-logy, meaning " study of ") is the systematic and rational study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truths, or the learned profession acquired by completing specialized training in religious studies, usually at a university or school of divinity or seminary.

Later the emphasis was on classical studies, dominated by Latin and Ancient History, and, for boys with sufficient ability, Classical Greek.

Ancient Egyptian literature was not included in early studies of the history of literature because the writings of Ancient Egypt were not translated into European languages until the 19th century when the Rosetta stone was deciphered.

At Stellenbosch, he learned High Dutch, German, and Ancient Greek, and immersed himself further in literature, the classics, and Bible studies.

There are four main types of Liceo: Liceo Classico ( focusing on classical subjects, such as Italian, Latin and Ancient Greek studies ), Liceo Scientifico ( lacking Greek to devote approximately equal time to the remaining classical subjects and scientific subjects ), Liceo Artistico ( focusing on artistic subjects as Art History and Drawing and Liceo Linguistico ( focusing on foreign languages such as French, German, Spanish, Chinese: two of these are added to the study of the mandatory language, English ).

From a humanities perspective, communication is concerned with rhetoric and persuasion ( traditional graduate programs in communication studies trace their history to the rhetoricians of Ancient Greece ).

Following a show with the band Maelstrom, Small decided to leave and continue his studies at Towson University eventually earning his degree in Ancient History.

Although not a detailed study of Protestantism but rather an introduction to Weber's later studies of interaction between various religious ideas and economics ( The Religion of China: Confucianism and Taoism, The Religion of India: The Sociology of Hinduism and Buddhism, and Ancient Judaism ), The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism argues that Puritan ethics and ideas influenced the development of capitalism.

During the 1990s he produced a string of books dealing with historical paganism, folklore and contemporary Paganism in Britain ; The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles ( 1991 ), The Rise and Fall of Merry England ( 1994 ), The Stations of the Sun ( 1996 ) and The Triumph of the Moon ( 1999 ), the latter of which would come to be praised as a seminal text in the discipline of Pagan studies.

Hutton followed his studies on the Early Modern period with a book on a very different subject, The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles: Their Nature and Legacy ( 1991 ), in which he attempted to " set out what is at present known about the religious beliefs and practices of the British Isles before their conversion to Christianity.

In modern biblical studies, the term chaos is commonly used in the context of the Torah and their cognate narratives in Ancient Near Eastern mythology more generally.

Meredith G. Kline did pioneering work in the field of Biblical studies, in the 1960s and 1970s, building on prior work by George E. Mendenhall, by identifying the form of the covenant with the common Suzerain – Vassal treaties of the Ancient Near East in the 2nd millennium BC.

Although it was once thought to be Adena in origin, now based on the use of more advanced technology, including carbon dating and evidence from 1996 studies, many scholars now believe that members of the Fort Ancient culture built it about 1070 CE ( plus or minus 70 years ).

His first scientific works were on the subjects of Ancient Greek philology and Byzantine studies.

The students who act in it receive no formal training in speaking Ancient Greek, and have only nine months to learn the lines and direction, as well as keeping up with their other studies.

Rapoport, and H. Graetz, he studies the influences of Ancient Near Eastern culture on the evolution of the Talmud, and he identifies problems in the transmitted text.

Loyola Academy offers a comprehensive liberal arts curriculum with over 110 courses in language arts, fine arts ( dance, music, theater, visual arts, and architecture ), foreign languages ( Spanish, French, Latin, Mandarin Chinese and Ancient Greek ), mathematics, physical education, science, social studies, and theology.

Potts, Timothy, Roaf, Michael & Stein, Diana ( eds ), Culture through Objects: Ancient Near Eastern studies in honour of P. R. S.

but why did the Old Chinese postulate five elements, when the Ancient Near East -- which may have initiated the idea that natural elements exerted influence in human life and activities -- recognized only four??

However, Ancient Egyptian is highly divergent from Proto-Afroasiatic ( Trombetti 1905: 1 – 2 ), and considerable time must have elapsed in between them.

It is said to have parallels with that of the Ancient Greek sophists or dialecticians.

" The Covered Hall ") This abode is somewhat like Hades from Ancient Greek religion: there, something not unlike the Asphodel Meadows can be found, and people who have neither excelled in that which is good nor excelled in that which is bad can expect to go there after they die and be reunited with their loved ones.

It has also been recently suggested that the rapid climatic collapse, marking the Akkadian Dark Age, may have been responsible for the religiously prescribed prohibition against the raising and consumption of pigs that spread through the Ancient Middle East from the end of the third millennium BC.

b. Youatt states that the Southern Hound may have been native to the British Isles and used on hunts by the Ancient Britons.

Attempts at further expansion into the politically fractious world of Ancient Greece may have been inevitable.

However, breathy-voiced and aspirated stops are acoustically similar in that in both cases there is an audible period of breathiness following the stop, and in the history of various languages ( e. g. Ancient Greek, Mandarin Chinese ), breathy-voiced stops have subsequently developed into voiceless aspirated stops.

Stanford sinologist David Shepherd Nivison, in the The Cambridge History of Ancient China, writes that the moral goods of Mohism " are interrelated: more basic wealth, then more reproduction ; more people, then more production and wealth ... if people have plenty, they would be good, filial, kind, and so on unproblematically.

Ancient historians have many complaints about this, stating that his judgments were variable and sometimes did not follow the law.

The three Ancient Greek orders have since been consistently used in neo-classical European architecture.

* In the Stargate Universe TV series, an Ancient spaceship, Destiny, travels to an artificial source of CMBR with indications that the universe as we know it might have been created by some form of sentient intelligence.

Ancient authors have implicated Domitian in the death of his brother, either by directly accusing him of murder, or implying he left the ailing Titus for dead, even alleging that during his lifetime, Domitian was openly plotting against his brother.

Stanford sinologist David Shepherd Nivison, in the The Cambridge History of Ancient China, writes that the moral goods of Mohism " are interrelated: more basic wealth, then more reproduction ; more people, then more production and wealth ... if people have plenty, they would be good, filial, kind, and so on unproblematically.

There is a depiction of a hockey-like game from 200 BC in Ancient Greece when the game may have been called " Κερητίζειν " (" kerētízein ") because it was played with a horn (" κέρας " in Greek ) and a ball-like object.

Adrienne Mayor, in introducing a bibliography on the topic, noted that most modern folklorists are largely unaware of classical parallels and precedents, in materials that are only partly represented by the familiar designation Aesopica: " Ancient Greek and Roman literature contains rich troves of folklore and popular beliefs, many of which have counterparts in modern contemporary legends " ( Such as Mayor, 2000 ).

Within Ancient Hinduism, women have been held in equal honor as men.

Others have argued that the Ancient Egyptians had no concept of pi and would not have thought to encode it in their monuments.

While the term grimoire is originally European, and many Europeans throughout history, particularly ceremonial magicians and cunning folk, have made use of grimoires, the historian Owen Davies noted that similar such books can be found all across the world, ranging from Jamaica to Sumatra, and he also noted that the first such grimoires could be found not in Europe but in the Ancient Near East.

As a language evolves, cases can merge ( for instance in Ancient Greek genitive and ablative have merged as genitive ), a phenomenon formally called syncretism.

While Sanskrit has six classes, Latin is traditionally said to have five declension classes, and Ancient Greek three declension classes.

Spanish and Ancient Greek, for example, have a perfect ( not the same as the perfective ), which refers to a state resulting from a previous action ( also described as a previous action with relevance to a particular time, or a previous action viewed from the perspective of a later time ).

This Harifian culture may have adopted the use of pottery from the Isnan culture and Helwan culture of Egypt ( which lasted from 9000-4500 BC ), and subsequently fused with elements from the PPNB culture during the climatic crisis of 6000 BC to form what Juris Zarins calls the Syro-Arabian pastoral technocomplex, which saw the spread of the first Nomadic pastoralists in the Ancient Near East.

Ancient people recognized the need for the walls ( and sometimes the sole ) of domestic horses ' hooves to have additional protection over and above any natural hardness.