Sentences with phrase «ancient plants called»

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Some 11,000 years ago, humans living in the ancient Middle East region called the Fertile Crescent shifted from a nomadic existence, based on hunting game and gathering wild plants, to a more sedentary lifestyle that would later give rise to permanent settlements.

That technique is called carbon dating, and scientists use it to date things like Neanderthal bones and ancient plant fibers.

Why market a boring old herbal remedy containing something related to the weed milk - vetch when you can squint sideways at the Linnaean name of its family of plants, Astragalus, ignore the fact that «astragalus» is Ancient Greek for «ankle bone», and call it «Astral Fruit ``?

Ancient Sumerians cultivated opium - containing poppy plants more than 5,000 years ago, calling their crop the «joy plant.»

Archaeologists can now detect ancient maize even when cobs and kernels have long rotted away, via tiny plant fragments called phytoliths, minute pieces of silica that build up in plant tissues.

The ancient Egyptians called it «The Plant of Immortality» and native Americans referred to it as «The Wand of Heaven».

These plants were called «the foods of life» in ancient times because they contained everything your body needed to thrive.

This restorative formula calls upon ancient wisdom to penetrate the deepest layers of the skin with high - powered, phytonutrient - rich plant energy to combat inflammation, bacteria, and microbes.

Aloe vera has been used for a host of purposes since the ancient Egyptians called it the «plant of immortality.»

Using energy from sunlight - together with the catalytic action of an ancient enzyme called rubisco, the most abundant protein on earth - plants convert carbon dioxide from the air into carbohydrates and other useful molecules.