Sentences with phrase «by prehistoric»

In Dor and Oranur, Paul Swenbeck will present large ceramic works inspired by prehistoric fossils, plants and animals.

Inspired by prehistoric paintings in caves in southern France, Elaine de Kooning's Lascaux Series includes five lithographs that reference the earliest examples of human image - making.

As a teenager, Mr. Soulages was fascinated by prehistoric art, particularly the 3,000 - year - old monoliths scattered near his home in the Aveyron region.

Emerging with the abstract expressionist movement, Jay DeFeo worked for four decades as a sculptor, photographer, and painter, producing a broad and personal vocabulary of heroic imagery that was inspired by ordinary objects and influenced by prehistoric art, astronomy, and architecture.

In this image the patterns are not created by prehistoric societies but by opencast ironstone quarrying east of Corby — the lines snaking across the plate are the overburden removed to gain access to the ironstone beds.

The mutable quality of obsidian made it a material often used by prehistoric people to make tools.

House of Bones juxtaposes the steel mound of wreckage that was the World Trade Center with a fragile dwelling constructed of mammoth bones by Prehistoric humans.

Anywhere you stay you'll have to get there by boat from the main village passing by prehistoric - looking jungle coves.

This is the only Channel Island on which steatite, a type of soapstone coveted by prehistoric peoples, is found.

At Navajo National Monument, visit the villages that date from 1250 to 1300 AD built by the prehistoric Puebloan Ancestors.

That entails eating foods consumed by prehistoric humans, including fresh fruits, vegetables, grass - fed meat, poultry, eggs, fish, seafood and nuts.

Some researchers even theorize that the dinosaurs were wiped out by prehistoric hypercanes, a kind of super-hurricane stirred to life by the heat of an asteroid strike [source: National Geographic].

Astronomers are exploring what might be described as the first astronomical observing tool, potentially used by prehistoric humans 6,000 years ago.

The high altitude transverse valleys of the Himalayan arc were among the last habitable places permanently colonized by prehistoric humans due to the challenges of resource scarcity, cold stress and hypoxia.

The man's teeth show little wear for his age, suggesting a soft diet by prehistoric standards.

(Cave paintings of crocodiles and giraffes left by prehistoric humans attest to the once savannalike climate.)

Researchers previously theorized that the communities — many linked to Chaco by prehistoric roads — formed part of a powerful religious society that spread its tentacles far into outlying areas.

1 Gold was probably the first metal worked by prehistoric man.

Stone objects collected by prehistoric hunters were effective as throwing weapons to hunt animals, research at Leeds Beckett University reveals.

Kappelman shrugs off the controversy, noting he is a trained geologist, and that study co-author Lawrence Todd has worked extensively on the bones of bison driven off cliffs by prehistoric hunters.

People coming in the tournament for the sake of football (Messi, Sanchez, Cavani, James etc) were brutally downed every game by prehistoric players.

Any god fits your definition including ones invented by prehistoric man.

Not exact matches

Apparently, audiences were not interested in seeing a nearly three - hour - long movie about a robotic alien truck eluding the clutches of an intergalactic bounty hunter by joining forces with prehistoric robot dinosaurs — that would be Transformers: Age of Extinction — or that one where Tom Cruise is repeatedly killed while fending off an alien invasion... or something.

And by the time a species called Homo heidelbergensis had appeared, perhaps around 600,000 years ago, there was a clear right - handed preference in prehistoric societies.

All measurement is not measurement of lengths on a straight line; there is a second most important measurement of intervals, independent of such measurement of lengths, the estimation of angles, or, what comes to the same thing, of ratios and arcs of circles to the whole circumference, In point of fact, it is by angular measurement that we habitually estimate temporal intervals, whenever we appeal to a watch or clock, and in the prehistoric past the first rough estimates of intervals within the natural day must presumably» have been made, independently of measurement of lengths, by this same method, with the sky for clock - face.

The encyclical would have us consider first the journey already charted by the faith of Abraham and Moses: how the believer has been called out of prehistoric notions of a god of this or that place or season into the truly personal response («I» - «Thou») to a Word whose divine utterance both precedes us and calls us forth to journey towards a horizon which the Word himself illuminates and for which the Word himself acts as guarantor.

Dr. King's Farms promotes a healthy, natural lifestyle by rediscovering prehistoric meats such as bison, elk and yak.

Updated 2/19/2016 Background The species Capsicum chinense spread throughout the Caribbean basin in prehistoric times, carried by indigenous people via boat from the Amazon basin to what is now Venezuela to Trinidad, and then through the Lesser Antilles to the Greater Antilles, and finally...

They have been consumed since prehistoric times as evidenced by sweet potato relics dating back 10,000 years that have been discovered in Peruvian caves.

The species Capsicum chinense spread throughout the Caribbean basin in prehistoric times, carried by indigenous people via boat from the Amazon basin to what is now Venezuela to Trinidad, and then through the Lesser Antilles to the Greater Antilles, and finally ending up in the Yucatán Peninsula.

At Shin Chon I was puzzled by a cellophane package of «dried platycodon,» which looked like the mummified remains of a prehistoric animal.

It reminds me of Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women, a rather B - level (or below) movie I saw as a kid about a planet populated by women and some lizard - like monsters.

I happen to love men, and I certainly don't want to live on a planet like the one in «Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women,» a campy»60s sci - fi flick about a planet populated entirely by women (and some ugly lizard - like beasts because all sci - fi flicks have to have beasties).

The parcel at 1204 Ulster Avenue is directly behind Five Guys Burgers & Fries, and on that property is the circle of stone pillars roughly 75 - feet in circumference described by Town Supervisor James E. Quigley, III as resembling Stonehenge, a prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, England, believed to have been constructed somewhere between 3000 - 2000 B.C.E.

On a whim, Osborne and Akerboom swabbed the bones from a prehistoric whale found by Alford.

Many prehistoric people lived by the sea — but rising sea levels have drowned their settlements.

Many were enticed by the tantalizing prospect of finding prehistoric genetic material that could shed light on extinct species and evolution itself.

The exterior is rendered in an oddly tasteful, faux - prehistoric faux stone, as is most of the interior — though the cave effect is somewhat compromised by a dizzying profusion of top - of - the line plasma TV screens.

The tools were studied by Dr. Harmand and her colleague Hélène Roche — world experts in lithic analysis, the study of stone artifacts from the various Stone Age periods in which they were made — to interpret physical features and reconstruct the manufacturing techniques used at the prehistoric site, including experimental replication of the tools.

I'm one of only a few dozen maybe in the whole world who focus on landscapes that got covered by sea level rise or prehistoric settlements that were terrestrial but ended up underwater.

(It should be noted that Price made those comments during a debate over an amendment, which he supported, that would have defunded a handful of NSF projects targeted as wasteful or unnecessary by GOP lawmakers; the hit list included grants to study bison hunting on the late prehistoric Great Plains and the sexual politics of waste in Dakar.)

At a recent conference on the topic, organized by the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany, presentation after presentation highlighted how prehistoric people burned the forest, cleared it, farmed it, nurtured certain of its tree species, and even built cities in it, leaving lasting, if subtle, marks.

In 2007, an Australian National University Ph.D. candidate named Stephen Munro was studying prehistoric hominin habitats by examining fossil mollusks.

And by tracing the remains of pigments in fossils, called melanosomes, scientists have in recent years begun to breathe new life into the dun - colored relicts, discovering the Technicolor hues in prehistoric birds» wings and the clever shading that veiled ancient mosasaurs from predators.

A European team of researchers headed by the University of Zurich and the Technical University Berlin has now studied the shape of the ribcage in more than 120 tetrapods — from prehistoric times up to the present day.

Prehistoric human skeleton in the Chan Hol Cave near Tulúm on the Yucatán peninsula prior to looting by unknown cave divers.

«This is the first genome - wide data on prehistoric humans from the hot tropics, and was made possible by improved methods for preparing skeletal remains» says Ron Pinhasi at University College Dublin, a senior author of the study.

«This research, although driven by the case study in the Balkans, yielded a valuable representation of colour of the most commonly produced prehistoric alloys worldwide.

While studies of ancient gold metallurgy and the colour characteristics of gold alloys are well supported by modern research, the colour properties of prehistoric copper alloys, such as tin bronzes or arsenical copper, the most abundant type of metal artefacts in prehistory, have largely been understudied.

Prehistoric Europe was a dynamic place where human populations would rise to dominance, get swept aside by others and then rise again years later, and a new genetic analysis shows what happened