Sentences with phrase «ancient south american»

She is a specialist in ancient South American art and architecture and her dissertation, entitled The Huacas of Machu Picchu: Inca Stations for the Communion Between Humanity and Nature, argues that huacas, or sacred places, defined the relationship between nature and human ritual practice.

Linguist Nicholas Ostler would appear to be that singular type of British scholar who combines daunting erudition with an equal measure of eccentricity (one of the two dozen or so languages he knows is Chibcha, an ancient South American tongue).

Chia seeds are an ancient South American seed that has been used for centuries.

Chai Chia Pudding This Chai Chia Pudding uses the ancient South American chia seeds as a base and combines it with the oriental flavours of India.

Ancient South American proverbs tell that broth will even decrease the pain of childbirth.

In an attempt to unravel the mystery, Karen Bruhns has written a stimulating and wide - ranging account of the origins and nature of ancient South American civilisation.

Known as the Food of the Gods by ancient South American cultures, raw cacao is cherished now in modern times as a healthy and delicious form of dark chocolate.

There's no way to be sure how long peanut butter has been around, but it's probably safe to assume that, at some point, an ancient South American discovered that roasted peanuts were pretty tasty, especially when you mashed them with a rock and made a nice paste from them.

These relics of ancient South Americans add to evidence from nearby sites challenging the longstanding view of Clovis people as the first Americans (SN: 8/11/12, p. 15), a team led by geochronologist Christelle Lahaye of the University of Bordeaux 3 and archaeologist Eric Boëda of the University of Paris X reports March 4 in the

Experts from the UK and Brazil have found the first evidence that ancient South Americans learned how to grow bigger rice crops with larger grains, but this expertise may have been lost after 1492 when the indigenous population was decimated, research shows.

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His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.

I myself, having been exposed to the ancient beliefs of Taino Native Americans and Far Easterners transplanted into Latin America as well as Christianity, have a more pragmatic, holistic outlook on divinity and religious teachings which I choose to defer expressing, lest I be branded here in the Christian South as a HERETIC.

These bizarre events are also echoed in the legends and myths of every ancient culture upon the earth: the ancient Greeks, the Egyptians, the Hindus, the South Sea Islanders, the American Indians, and virtually all the others.

The ancient tongues were but a small though important province in the realm which he explored tirelessly, testing his general theory of linguistic expression by an investigation not only of Indo - European and Semitic idioms but also of Basque and Hungarian, of American Indian languages, of Chinese and South Sea dialects.1 Visitors found the aged sage «pure and perfect like an ancient work of art.»

In the past, this South American seed (considered to be an ancient grain) would be served in my kitchen -LSB-...]

Quinoa has deep South American roots and is an ancient grain - like crop.

The ancient Aztecs gave chocolate as wedding presents and other South American civilizations believed that chocolate was the food of the heart.

In 2015, ZooMS pioneer Matthew Collins (left) and colleagues used ancient proteins to classify several extinct South American animals that had puzzled science since Charles Darwin first collected some of their fossils.

Monte Verde For decades, archaeologists believed that the Clovis people were the first Americans, arriving via an ancient land bridge between Siberia and Alaska and then making their way south.

Ancient proteins resolve the evolutionary history of Darwin's South American ungulates.

Because yerba mate is native to South America, and drinking the tea has such positive side effects, this tradition of the ancient, ceremonial gourd remains alive and well throughout many South and Central American countries.

Buttery pound cake of the American South finds a friend in the ancient Japanese plum.

Michael Angarano is the American kid dropped into the middle of the Chinese legend, a South Boston teenager and martial arts movie buff swept out of his neighborhood and into ancient China.

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History and Facts: This wild Native American dog, fond in a remote region in South Carolina, dates back to ancient times and looks almost identical to the Dingo.

The Native American Indian Dog, also known as the Carolina Dog, the North American Native Dog, the Dingo Dog, the Dixie Dingo, the Native American Dog, the Southern Aboriginal Dog, the NAID and «Old Yaller,» is an ancient, almost feral breed that developed in the deep south and now is extremely rare in the wild.

Parts of the 2002 film Dragonfly were filmed there (although the people and the land were presented as South American) and the producers hired extras (at least three with speaking parts) from the ancient Hawaiʻian native population, which seeks to preserve its cultural heritage, [27] including the pre-USA name of these two islands, Atooi or Tauaʻi.

Cusco, the ancient Inca capital, is a real gem of South American culture and the perfect place to begin Spanish classes or to step up your language skills!

With only two indulgent dishes on the menu - superb South American fillet steak or succulent roasted lobster - Restaurant Red boasts a gorgeous setting in an ancient canal house overlooking the pretty Keizersgracht canal.

Peru, this South American gem offers incredible hiking views along the Inca Trail and the Machu Picchu ruins.Not only is this a top spot for visiting ancient ruins.Where to stay: Sumaq Machu Picchu Hotel

The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts owns 208 Pre-Columbian ceramic vessels, textiles, sculptures and metalwork objects from Meso, Central and South America as part of its Ancient American Art Collection.

The Dallas Museum of Art, established in 1903, has an encyclopedic collection of more than 26,000 works spanning 5,000 years of history and representing all media with renowned strengths in the arts of the ancient Americas, Africa, Indonesia, and South Asia; European and American painting, sculpture, and decorative arts; and American and international contemporary art.

Made of colored cotton or camelid fibers, quipus (or «talking knots») played a crucial role in ancient Andean South American cultures as record - keeping or data - collecting devices to gather census figures, monitor tax obligations and trade payments, and mark agricultural changes in seasons; thus, they stand as a form of writing before these regions and cultures were subsumed by Spanish colonial occupation and European systems of time and representation.

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) Founded in 1936, its collection embraces various types of art, such as: African, American, and Ancient artifacts, including antiquities from Ancient Egypt, Greece, Etruria, Rome, and Byzantium; Art Nouveau and Art Deco, including works by Hector Guimard, Emile Galle, Louis Majorelle, Louis Comfort Tiffany; works by the Vienna Secession and Peter Behrens; Arts & Crafts works by Charles Mackintosh, and Frank Lloyd Wright; East Asian art; European art, featuring works by Murillo, Poussin, Gentileschi and Goya; decorative art, including gold, porcelain and enamel boxes, silverware, The Pratt Faberge Eggs collection; South Asian art from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Tibet.

Exhibition documentation is a primary resource for researchers of contemporary art, American art and Texas regionalist art, African art, Asian art, South Pacific art, ancient art from the Mediterranean, ancient American art, and European art — all represented in the Museum's exhibitions.