Or maybe it was Uncharted's flair for armchair tourism — except instead of slouching around museums looking half - interestedly
at ancient tools, now we could run about wide - open ancient ruins knocking over antiques, crouching behind sarcophagi and blasting baddies off ledges with shotguns.
Not exact matches
If someone wanted to make papyrus the way the
ancient Egyptians did, we know what the end result has to look like, the person trying to recreate it just has to keep trying different methods, using
tools and materials we know existed
at the time, until they get the right result.
This evidence goes back
at least 45,000 years to
ancient cave art and remains and
tools and burials they have now uncovered.
Dr. Harmand, the lead author, says that the Lomekwi 3 artifacts show that
at least one group of
ancient hominin started intentionally «knapping» stones — breaking off pieces with quick, hard strikes from another stone — to make sharp
tools long before previously thought.
Al Wusta's
ancient human fossil — combined with comparably
ancient stone
tools found
at other Arabian Peninsula sites (SN: 4/4/15, p. 16)-- challenges the view that humans left Africa in one or a few major migrations, says paleoanthropologist María Martinόn - Torres.
In carbon dioxide, for example, these multiple isotopes are found more often than expected — a phenomenon called clumping — which leads to a powerful
tool for measuring the temperatures
at which the molecules formed, now and in the
ancient past.
In Illusions in Art for Young Eyes
at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, contemporary master Eric Conklin borrows
tools such as conical mirrors from 17th - century Dutch artists and mathematical principles from
ancient Egyptian architecture to create a sense of depth when there is none or to imply volume when only area exists.
Even as the first Clovis
tools were being found
at Blackwater Draw, other archaeologists were discovering evidence of
ancient human activity in Chile
at about the same time as the Clovis culture.
► In this week's Science Careers - produced Working Life column, Kevin Boehnke, a doctoral candidate in public health
at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, writes that his training in
ancient history has given him a perspective and
tools that have made him a better scientist.
This is the earliest known human consumption of oats, say Marta Mariotti Lippi
at the University of Florence in Italy and her colleagues, who made the discovery after analysing starch grains on an
ancient stone grinding
tool from southern Italy (PNAS, DOI: 10.1073 / pnas.1505213112).
Now, the Lomekwi artifacts show that those ideas are correct and
at least one group of
ancient hominin started intentionally knapping stones to make
tools long before previously thought.
Sonia Harmand, a paleolithic archaeologist
at the Stony Brook University in New York, led the group that discovered the
ancient tools.
Arie Bouman catches up with artist Tony Berlant and Thomas Wynn, Professor of Anthropology
at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, who, for the past 8 years, have traveled to more than 22 museums across Europe, the U.S., Africa, and the Middle East in pursuit of
ancient tools, some of which are more than 2 million years old.
To develop the exhibition, Artist Tony Berlant and Thomas Wynn, Professor of Anthropology
at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, traveled to more than 22 museums across Europe, the U.S., Africa, and the Middle East in pursuit of
ancient tools, some of which are more than 2 million years old.
/ exhibitions 2017 Co • — st • — l W • — ve Tr • — nsl • — tor, RAFT artist - run space, Elizabeth Quay, Perth 2016 Longli International New Media Art Festival, Longli
Ancient Town, Jinping County, Guizhou Province, China 2016 Polymorphism, Ideas Platform, Artspace, Sydney 2016 Automated Reasoning Paradigm, Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney 2015 Didactic
Tools, Fremantle Arts Centre, Perth 2015 Dead Ringer, curated by Leigh Robb, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts 2015 Pica Salon, curated by Leigh Robb and Nadia Johnson, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts 2015 sculptures: 5, The Auricle, Christchurch, New Zealand 2015 Firstdraft Auction, Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney 2014 What I See When I Look
At Sound, curated by Leigh Robb, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts 2014 Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre 2014 hyperthymesia, State of the Art Festival, State Library of Western Australia 2014 sculptures: 4, Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney 2014 perspectives [micro], NOW now Festival Group Show, SNO Gallery, Sydney 2013 perspectives [macro], free range gallery, Perth 2013 Open Curator Studio, Artspace, curated by Alana Kushnir, Sydney / online 2012 NH7 festival, Pune, India 2011 Wonderland, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan 2010 hypnogenia, Scitech Science Museum, Perth