June 24, 2019 - The Stone Age may not have been "The Flintstones," but there were definitely caveman qualities to it.

November 11, 2024 - Melvin Konner has said the challenge to the hypothesis is not greatly significant since the real challenges to human non-adaptation have occurred with the rise of ever-more refined foodstuffs in the last 300 years. A 2019 analysis of diets in the United States ranked consumption of a paleolithic ...

September 30, 2013 - In The Story of the Human Body, evolutionary biologist Daniel Lieberman explains how our bodies haven't adapted to modern conditions. The result is "mismatch diseases" — ailments that occur because our bodies weren't designed for the environments in which we now live.

August 19, 2017 - PDF | Background: Ketogenic diets have repeatedly been suggested for the treatment of cancer. Yet, only a few case studies have been published that... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

Upper Paleolithic tool makers also frequently employed a further refinement in working with stone. After preliminary shaping by percussion flaking, they often finished a tool with · pressure flaking . They literally pushed off the edge flakes with the tip of a deer antler in the final shaping and thinning process. This resulted in small, regular flake scars and much greater ...

If paleolithic people were healthier than us due to their hunter-gatherer lifestyle, why did they have a shorter life expectancy than we do ...

This mini-review chronicles the history of cancer ranging from cancerous growths discovered in dinosaur fossils, suggestions of cancer in Ancient Egyptian papyri written in 1500–1600 BC, and the fi...

Paleolithic Period, or Old Stone Age , Ancient technological or cultural stage characterized by the use of rudimentary chipped stone tools.

Cancer is often wrongly considered to be a modern disease in many popular medical venues. Cancers have been known to humanity since ancient times. In fact, its antiquity can be identified through the application of palaeopathological methodologies. ...

Cancer, one of the world’s leading causes of death today, remains almost absent relative to other pathological conditions, in the archaeological record, giving rise to the conclusion that the disease is mainly a product of modern living and ...

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November 14, 2024 - The Paleolithic Age is characterized by the use of knapped stone tools, although at the time humans also used wood and bone tools. Other organic commodities were adapted for use as tools, including leather and vegetable fibers; however, due to rapid decomposition, these have not survived to any great degree. About 50,000 years ...

Jordan is extraordinarily rich in archaeological remains of the Paleolithic periods, largely because deflation has concentrated stone artifacts derived from land surfaces that have long since disappeared from the modern landscape and because, in many parts of the country, remaining Pleistocene ...

1 month ago - The Late Pleistocene is an unofficial age in the international geologic timescale in chronostratigraphy, also known as the Upper Pleistocene from a stratigraphic perspective. It is intended to be the fourth division of the Pleistocene Epoch within the ongoing Quaternary Period.

Researching the origin of the precession of the equinoxes: The platonic year, when was it first realised.

Answer (1 of 6): Pleistocene relates to a geochronologic epoch which lasted from about 2,588,000 to 11,700 years ago. In short, it is characterized by mostly cool episodes globally. A common word for Pleistocene is 'Ice Ages', it means all cool episodes and the intermittend warmer times, since th...

The promotion of healthy diets is likely one of the most cost-effective strategies for preventing a wide range of disorders, including cardiovascular disease, obesity, hypertension, and type 2 diabetes. The majority of present non-communicable chronic ...

Recognition of a distinct Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition remains problematic, but could be argued to have occurred probably over the past 75,000 years in at least some regions (James and Petraglia, 2005). For this reason, some authors have preferred to call these industries the Middle Stone Age ...