Sentences with phrase «ancient material studies»

This research arose from the department's involvement in the EU - funded Marie Curie network «New Archaeological Research Network for Integrating Approaches to Ancient Material Studies,» known by its acronym as NARNIA.

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Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World (http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Classics/gender.html).

Implied, of course, in this as in all study is the bringing to the material all one's faculties: questioning, discussing, applying all available tools for prying open the mysteries in the ancient documents.

Ancient - Future Bible Study: Women of the Torah and Women of the Gospels by Stephen J. Binz — I've been asked on several occasions if I could recommend material for a women's Bible study that isn't either a) Beth Moore, or b) terrStudy: Women of the Torah and Women of the Gospels by Stephen J. Binz — I've been asked on several occasions if I could recommend material for a women's Bible study that isn't either a) Beth Moore, or b) terrstudy that isn't either a) Beth Moore, or b) terrible.

The study of ancient liturgical materials is a potent antidote to the cultural captivity of Christianity in this or any other culture, for liturgies embody ancient wisdom.

Boyd, an archaeologist and director of SHUMLA (Studying Human Use of Materials, Land, and Art), an education and research center in Comstock, Texas, will spend the afternoon scouring the shelter for insight into the ancient residents and their spiritual world.

Nevertheless, as Tobias says, it is still ``... a field beset with relatively few facts but many theories... The story of early hominid brains has to be read from carefully dated, well identified, fossilised calvariae, or from endocranial casts formed within them... Such materials confine the Hercule Poirot, who would read «the little grey cells» of fossil hominids, to statements about the size, shape and surface impressions... of ancient brains...» The other major limiting factor at the moment is the lack of suitable fossil skulls for such studies.

The biggest caveat, says geologist Dawn Sumner of the University of California, Davis, is that the organic material observed in the study may not actually be ancient, coming instead from recent microorganisms living in the rocks.

The key lies in organic materials found in fossil bones, which contain evidence for how ancient ecosystems functioned, according to a new study available online and in the September issue of the Journal of Herpetology.

An international team of scientists, led by researchers from the University of Tuebingen and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, successfully recovered and analyzed ancient DNA from Egyptian mummies dating from approximately 1400 BCE to 400 CE, including the first genome - wide nuclear data from three individuals, establishing ancient Egyptian mummies as a reliable source for genetic material to study the ancient past.

James M. Adovasio, Ph.D., D.Sc., co-author of the study and a world acclaimed archaeologist at FAU's Harbor Branch, who is the foremost authority on ancient textiles and materials such as those used in basketry.

Other ancient DNA studies have been discredited after supposedly ancient genetic material turned out to be modern contaminants, but those fears don't apply to this new research, says micropaleontologist Michal Kucera of the University of Bremen in Germany.

Thorsby acknowledges that more DNA studies of ancient material are needed but remains hopeful that he can clinch the case.

For the first two decades of developing techniques to study what we call «ancient DNA» (the DNA of dead and fossil remains) we only obtained fragments of genetic material.

archeology The study of human history, performed by analyzing things that ancient humans left behind, from housing materials and cooking vessels to clothing and footprints.

These most intimate of ancient human artifacts were often ignored or discarded during many previous archaeological excavations, but careful study of materials painstakingly recovered from human paleofeces says a lot about what ancient human dietary practices were like, given their incredibly high content of fiber, undigested plant remains.