Sentences with phrase «ancient women»

Numbers of ancient women sampled ranged from 76 to 90, depending on which limb bone was examined.

It's not surprising that grain grinding and other agricultural tasks endowed ancient women with especially strong arms, says bioarchaeologist Vitale Sparacello of the University of Bordeaux in France.

I have studied ancient women's rituals.

When we look back at the ancient time, we can see that the child rearing of ancient women is not like today's world.

The novel offers no unified «character analysis» of these ancient women, certainly no hagiography; but through Offred's tale it does suggest the complexity of their inner lives as well as the trickiness of their textual words that we do have to ponder — discourse rarely simple, since historically women have had to express themselves indirectly, within, the suppressive language of patriarchy.

Ancient women had miscarriages - and even abortions at various stages of fetal development - of course they knew what the tissue looked like.

DNA from an ancient woman who lived in what is now Romania indicates that people in Asia trekked to Africa starting between 45,000 and 40,000 years ago.

The ancient woman's skull is shown here.

I stop an ancient woman who appears to have a broken nose.

The ancient women were discovered in Chertovy Vorota Cave, known as Devil's Gate Cave in English.

The ancient women also were related to other people who speak the remaining and endangered 75 or so Tungusic languages spoken by dwindling numbers of ethnic people in eastern Siberia and China.

In the new study, an international team extracted ancient DNA from the skeletons of four ancient women from the islands of Vanuatu and Tonga, dated to 2300 to 3100 years ago, including three directly associated with the Lapita culture.

Instead, they used data from hundreds of modern women from around the world to find an average approximation of skull size, skin tone and other features, then combined that information with the ancient woman's own skull measurements to make a likeness.

Sylvia Sidney may be best remembered as the ancient woman who still smokes like a chimney in the afterlife, as she appeared as the brashly amusing ghoulish bureaucrat in Beetle Juice (1988) or in Mars Attacks (1996), as the Slim Whitman - loving granny who saves the world in those imaginatively surreal Tim Burton movies.

His girls suggested that the display needed to be livelier, so Barnum exploited his interest in the oddballs of life — the dwarf, the bearded woman, the ancient woman, the tall man.

In addition, Del Federico will give a lecture, Portrait of an Ancient Woman Uncovered by New X-Ray Technology, at Pratt Institute's Manhattan campus on November 9, 2017.