Sentences with phrase «ancient techniques used»

See a coffee plantation up close and learn about the ancient techniques used to produce coffee.

Reflexology is an ancient technique using pressure points (mostly located on the undersides of the feet) to relieve stress and pain and Reflexology can help you with just that.

Throughout his painstakingly precise craft process — likened to the ancient technique used to sculpt Japanese Great Buddhas — Haroshi individually selects and then stacks skateboard decks into a solid, glued cube of recycled wood.

«This porous pot is an adaptation of an ancient technique used by desert farmers for thousands of years which sits inside the planter slowly releases water as the soil dries up for even and consistent watering.»

It looks primitive but in fact it is the ancient technique used in tie dying.

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Using a dating technique that measures how much radiation had built up in the flint since it was heated, Hublin and his team say the ancient bones belong to people who lived roughly 300,000 - 350,000 years ago.

John Barton shows how the prophets used persuasive techniques that are found in ancient Near Eastern literature.

Also known as «kavala» or «gundusha,» oil pulling is an ancient Ayurvedic technique that uses natural substances to draw out toxins in your body.

The structure is composed of curving steps, levels, passageways and water pools, and the entire thing is built without cement, inspired by ancient Mayan building techniques, and using old quarrymen's tools.

Quinoa d'Anjou is a cross of two varieties of the ancient grain — Ecuadoran and Chilean — created using traditional plant breeding techniques.

I use the ancient Korean technique of keum boo a lot in my work, which fuses 24 carat gold to silver, allowing me to create rich gold accents and beautiful contrasts.

Each child makes incredible art by using this ancient technique to marble paper.

And the interior design demanded a revival of ancient styles and craft techniques not used since the Middle Ages, alongside the invention of new ones.

Nine months ago, I gave a TEDx talk in Verona setting out how anyone could speak like a leader using six ancient rhetorical techniques: breathless sentences, repetitions, contrasts, metaphor, exaggeration and rhyme — compounded with the rule of three.

After major floods in 2006, Oxfam International and the Kenneth Lee Foundation looked to the past for a solution: an ancient water management technique used by pre-Inca cultures in the region.

The technique, which originated in ancient Athens, is often used in colleges and law schools.

Following 2,000 - year - old descriptions of mummifying techniques and using only replicas of ancient tools, Wade and Brier transformed the body into an Egyptian - style mummy.

The researchers, including Stanford's Schnitzer, used the same microscopic technique as Dulac's team but implanted the lens in the ventromedial hypothalamus, an evolutionarily ancient structure involved in social behavior.

«Ancient Greek astronomers used a lot of geometrical techniques, but the geometrical figures that they use are always situated in a real space, with either two - or three - spatial dimensions,» Ossendrijver explains.

That's the conclusion of a study that assessed 103 ancient and contemporary languages using a technique normally used to study the evolution and spread of disease.

Now, he and his colleagues have used those techniques to analyze the fossils of ancient marine reptiles.

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

Pbo's group used a technique developed by Branford, Conn. - based biotech company 454 Life Sciences called pyrosequencing, which takes advantage of the fact that ancient DNA is often fragmented.

Researchers in Dublin and York used the latest scientific techniques to extract ancient DNA and protein from tiny samples of parchment from documents from the late 17th and late 18th centuries.

To find out more about the lives and deaths of these ancient people, Schultz has spent years teasing out the secrets of their bones, using techniques like those employed at crime scenes.

In this instance, researchers have been able to use new imaging techniques to measure the atomic nanostructure of ancient crystals at impact locations, using the 150 - kilometre - wide crater at Sudbury as a test site.

The researchers took inspiration from ancient arts, and use their new technique to build up «Celtic Knots».

Now, using a novel technique based on analyzing ancient proteins, archaeologists have reconstructed the contents of these vessels to conclude that the individual likely died from Crimean - Congo hemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV), a severe tick - borne disease that still kills people across the world today.

Previous attempts to get DNA from parchment did not work well, but by using modern sequencing techniques, researchers can now get abundant livestock DNA from parchment, such as the 16th century deed from Lancashire, U.K., shown above, the team reports online today in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. Not only is parchment plentiful, but as a legal document, it also has been carefully stored and often dated, making it a more readily available source of ancient DNA than bones.

After extracting tiny amounts of ancient DNA from the mummies» bones, the researchers amplified 16 short tandem repeats (short sequences in the DNA that create a genetic fingerprint) and eight polymorphic microsatellites (hereditary molecular markers) to testable quantities using techniques commonly employed in criminal or paternity investigations.

In addition to the radiometric dating techniques that revealed the ages of these ancient zircons, geologists used other analytical techniques to extract information about the environment in which the crystals formed, including the temperature and whether water was present.

They also demonstrate how the ancient scribes, who used a base 60 numerical arithmetic similar to our time clock, rather than the base 10 number system we use, could have generated the numbers on the tablet using their mathematical techniques.

To do so, they used new techniques to carefully cull chloroplast DNA from ancient rice 900 -2,800-years-old, which had been excavated from seven archaeological sites in Japan and Korea.

Using propagation techniques (see slide show for more details), Archangel has cloned ancient coast redwoods, sequoias, oaks and more than 150 other tree species, preserving their genetics in the process.

We used ancient DNA and Bayesian techniques to reconstruct a detailed genetic history of bison throughout the late Pleistocene and Holocene epochs.

Using ancient DNA techniques, geneticist Li Hui of Fudan University in Shanghai, China, hopes to demonstrate that some cherished Chinese myths are grounded in reality.

Browning's team used a new technique to trawl for segments of ancient DNA in the genomes of 5600 living humans from Europe, Asia, America and Oceania.

In a new study in Scientific Reports, University of Pennsylvania researchers use an innovative technique to date one of Antarctica's ancient lake deposits.

The technique relies on the radioactive isotope carbon - 14, whose radioactivity diminishes over time in a predictable manner, allowing researchers to calculate the age of ancient human sites using charcoal from fires or the bones of the prehistoric humans themselves.

In a paper published August 17, 2017 in the journal PLOS ONE, an international team of researchers, led by Director Nicole Boivin of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, used new techniques to analyze ancient DNA and proteins from 496 bone samples from 22 island, coastal and inland sites in eastern Africa.

He pioneered the use of both techniques for analyzing microscopic fossils preserved inside ancient rocks.

Using novel techniques to extract and study ancient DNA researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, have determined an almost complete mitochondrial genome sequence of a 400,000 - year - old representative of the genus Homo from Sima de los Huesos, a unique cave site in Northern Spain, and found that it is related to the mitochondrial genome of Denisovans, extinct relatives of Neandertals in Asia.

The findings, and the techniques used to document them, are important to archaeological research in a broader sense because they lend further support to the idea that fluctuations in ancient mouse populations can be used as a proxy for tracking ancient shifts in human mobility, lifestyle and food domestication.

To better understand its origin and life history, scientists examined the skeleton, organs, and ancient DNA using a myriad of techniques: anthropological investigation, a complete body CT scan, isotope analysis, tissue histology, molecular identification of ancient parasitic DNA, and forensic injury reconstruction.

In a fascinating set of projects we will look at the smallest scales and back in time, probing the mineralogy and composition of micron - sized grains in ancient meteorites using the most sophisticated microscopic techniques, to explore the history of volatiles and organics in planetary building blocks at the time when the Solar System was young.

Scientists have also used drilling and other techniques to look at ancient ecosystems under other ice shelves, but those methods often leave an incomplete picture.

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Ayurveda is an ancient system of healing that uses the perfect blend of herbal techniques, therapies, and diet in building a strong body and mind.

Breathing techniques used since ancient times as a part of YOGA practice is best way to strengthen Heart - Lung machine with good blood circulation.

Rather than being chemically synthesized in a laboratory as is the case with many probiotic supplements today, the probiotics in the Dr Ohhira range are made from natural ingredients using only a modern - day version of ancient Japanese fermentation techniques.