Sentences with phrase «artifacts from a culture»

We brought collections of art and artifacts from these cultures into schools, where we provided extended residencies to raise awareness of self and other and to teach curiosity and respect for differences among people.

[15] Archaeological research demonstrates that the Chumash people have deep roots in central and southern coastal regions of California, and has revealed artifacts from their culture.

Drawn exclusively from the Museum's Collections, the exhibition presents art and artifacts from cultures across West and Central Africa.

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Rather, what Crouch did was to continue the tradition of creating new cultural forms from within the folk culture he inhabited and taking such artifacts into a broader public space.

The mere existence of a cultural artifact from a previous era does not imply that it is itself significant for the present culture in which it occurs.

«The National Museum of American History captures what it is to be American, from history and science to artifact and culture.

A new study of artifacts from a cave in Israel suggests that our ancestors began regularly using fire about 350,000 years ago — far enough back to have shaped our culture and behavior but too recent to explain our big brains or our expansion into cold climates.

Earliest American Genome (Montana 12,600 years ago) In 2014, researchers recovered the genome of Anzick - 1, an infant buried with Clovis tools, artifacts from the first widespread culture in the Americas.

This «black mat» had been noted earlier by archaeologists because mammoth fossils and human artifacts from the Native American Clovis culture appear in abundance below it but are absent from the layers above it.

Recently excavated artifacts from Pakistan have inspired a reevaluation of one of the great early urban cultures — the enigmatic Indus Valley civilization

Also at risk, according to the study, are millions of artifacts, from Native American cultures to more recent historic events, largely because these items either are not being protected or have never been cataloged.

Co-author Clive Bonsall from the University of Edinburgh explained that indigenous hunter - gatherers can be distinguished archaeologically from immigrant farmers by their material culture, such as artifacts, architecture, burial traditions, art, and body ornamentation.

The Lomekwi area where the tools were found had already produced the fossil skull of early hominin Kenyanthropus platyops by Meave and her team, and the West Turkana Archaeological Project has previously discovered the earliest artifacts from the Oldowan culture known from Kenya, and the world's oldest Acheulean handaxes.

(Much of the more inexplicable artifacts of our current culture from Britney Spears to Freddie Prinze Jr. are attributable in some way to Titanic.)

From ashen coasts to towering rainforests, Tamriel is a breathing world of cultures, histories, and artifacts just waiting to be uncovered.

It is unapologetically black, from the streets of Oakland in the 1990s to a British museum displaying artifacts looted from a plundered continent, to Wakanda, where African culture is celebrated with an unabashed, infectious joy.

Taking an artifact from popular culture and using it to make academic content more appealing — he's an educator after my own heart.

But perhaps the two initiatives Eisenhower is best known for are its multi-week exchange programs with sister schools in Mexico and France, and the Culture Box Program, a rich collection of artifacts from 46 countries (such as clothing, games, and musical instruments) that are available for use in the Eisenhower curriculum as well as any school in the district (or a non-school group for a $ 15 fee).

This is a concept of person that contrasts starkly with the discrete, self - determining individual, an artifact of eighteenth - and nineteenth - century Western European approaches to modernization that has become closely associated with liberal democracy.Examining the meaning and value of Confucianism in the twenty - first century, the contributors — leading scholars from universities around the world — wrestle with several key questions: What are Confucian values within the context of the disparate cultures of China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam?

, or culture house, the institute houses a collection of historic and present - day cultural artifacts from Sumba's diverse tribal communities and can organize excursions to megalithic villages and scenic sites around the island.

Also featured are various First Nations artifacts and artwork, testament to the long existence of the deep - rooted cultures of the neighboring First Nations communities within Port Hardy and the surrounding area, with some artifacts dating from thousands of years ago.

Both curate rare artifacts from the pre-Hispanic era of Mayan culture.

On the reserve boundary is the must visit museum called the Muséo Sitio de Julio C. Tello, which contains information on the area and artifacts from the Paracas culture.

Two of the favorite museums are then the Larco Museum and the Museum of the Central Reserve Bank with its collection of golden artifacts from the Incan and pre-Incan cultures.

Appointed with all of the details that a discerning traveller would expect from a contemporary residence, each luxury Bali suite reflects the romantic culture of Bali with stunning tropical hardwoods, brilliantly coloured art and collectible artifacts.

Grab lunch in Warrnambool and visit the fascinating Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and see Australia's most valuable shipwreck artifact: the life - size porcelain Loch Ard Peacock statue, valued at $ 4million, which was salvaged from the wreck of the Loch Ard schooner in 1878 near Port Campbell; Tower Hill and the Wurn Gundidg Aboriginal Culture Centre (stocked with roaming emus, koalas and kangaroos).

What To Do The National Museum of Archaeology, Anthropology and History of Peru as a huge collection of artifacts and even mummies from Peru's ancient cultures.

Featuring exhibits documenting the full spectrum of the country's history, visitors can see artifacts from the long millennia of Maya rule, items from the early days when Belize was a pirate haven, cats o» nine tails and chain balls from colonial times when the building was a prison, and special displays about the distinct cultures and peoples in modern Belize.

The collection spans five millenniums, from the art of early Japanese cultures around 3000 B.C. through that of the Edo period of the 17th to 19th centuries A.D. -LSB-...] Assembled over half a century and exhibited throughout the world, Mrs. Burke's collection comprises about a thousand artifacts, including paintings, prints, sculpture, textiles, lacquerware, ceramics and calligraphy, collectively worth tens of millions of dollars.

Selected works include fine duck decoys, chosen from the Museum's vast holding of artifacts that help to highlight and preserve the history and culture of South Jersey.

In conjunction with a show at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris drawing from Richard Prince's massive collection of pop culture artifacts and a show at Gagosian in Paris, Le Monde visits with the artist in his upstate redoubt of Rensselaerville, NY.

With photographs, artifacts, and documents drawn from The Amistad Center's collection, Sing the Truth: Voices from The Amistad Center for Art & Culture celebrates the emergence of an African American female performance tradition and its impact on the fight for freedom.

Imbued with history, culture and artistry, these colourful artifacts are among the objects from the ROM's archives that nine students from the INVC program are researching for an interactive digital project.

Halle's work presents memory as «a space colonized by artifacts from popular culture and current events.»

Derived from the figure and mythic narratives, Hadzi's sculpture references antiquity and classical artifacts — abstracted anatomical forms, columnar and other architectural elements, helmets, weaponry and body armor function as visual metaphors for ancient cultures.

Yousif unifies symbols and artifacts from her past in conversation with western contemporary aesthetic codes and pop culture hues.

This alleged «cultural evolution» encourages the artist to deconstruct and build artifacts in which he mixes — without taboos — the trivial, decorative and well - measured paraphernalia of luxury culture with elements from the suburban culture: snake skins, leopard patterns, gold and fake carbon fibers that aspire to shine in an asphaltic grey.

The exhibit gathers rare historical artifacts, never - before - seen photographs, first - person accounts from former Panthers, scholars and community members, as well as contemporary art that demonstrates the Party's continuing influence on culture and activism locally, nationally and internationally.

By weaving canvas and sewn fabrics together, paintings combine memories and half - truths from African American culture, quilt - making, art history, and the artist's own personal history to create artificial artifacts that document a version of the past for the future.

Installed wonder - cabinet style in a shelf - lined gallery, the items range from art to artifact to tchotchkes; leap across cultures; and trickle from high to low, where racial stereotypes and kitsch frequently take over.

ROMAN IN THE PROVINCES: ART ON THE PERIPHERY OF EMPIRE Examining interactions between Imperial Rome and cultures in Gaul, Britain, Syria, Egypt, and elsewhere through a wide array of artifacts, many of them from Yale University excavations, and rarely displayed before.

Pictures, Patents, Monkeys, and More... offers a representative selection of objects from three different kinds of collections: contemporary fine art (from Robert J. Shiffler Foundation in Ohio); artifacts of popular culture (from a private collection of «sock monkey» toys): and the public record (patent models from the U.S. Patent Office, now in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution).

«By the mid - and late - 1970s,» wrote the curator Richard Marshall in his essay for the exhibition «American Art Since 1970» at the Whitney Museum, «painting had moved further away from the confines of the Minimalist approach — even from a negative reaction to it — and the artists [Jennifer Bartlett, Vija Celmins, Lois Lane, Neil Jenney, Bill Jensen and Elizabeth Murray] inaugurated new ways to treat subject matter and meaning -LSB-...] there emerged a move against an insular, elitist attitude towards art and what it is, should be, or must be -LSB-...] artists began to look at more diverse visual repertory: commercial art, advertising, fashion, television and movies, popular culture, the decorative arts, rugs, religion, ancient artifacts, and Middle Eastern Cultures.»

When you see the tactics of anti-petroleum Leftists — doing everything possible to disrupt the efficient allocation of the low - cost energy that has contributed to making America great — you wonder how different the Left is from religious fundamentalists who invade, tear down, deface and destroy the historical artifacts of a culture to erase and rewrite the past.