Sentences with phrase «by prehistory»

People are fascinated by prehistory, and the media want to write stories that attract readers — to use a cliché, sex sells.

Not exact matches

Marriage goes back too far into prehistory to know where it came from, but it was certainly not a product of the Abrahamic religions — it clearly predates them by thousands of years and is common in parts of the world which were never influenced by it.

Name ONE «moral absolute» that is / was shared by ALL religious faiths throughout all of recorded history (I'll let you off the hook for prehistory since I will assume you don't believe such a thing existed).

The New Mexico State Legislature and Governor King quickly passed Senate Joint Memorial 5, which stated, in part and with considerable exaggeration: «Whereas, despite New Mexico's long and rich chile history and prehistory, with solid archaeological evidence indicating the continuous use of both red and green chile since the time of Folsom Man some twelve thousand years ago [this is not true], we now find «Texas Man» claiming the noble chile as his; and whereas despite the facts, we hear boasting from east of the Pecos that «The Lone Star State» is the chili capital of the Southwest... and Texas chefs malign the noble «red and green» by blending it into a slurry of kidney beans and onions called chili; now, therefore, be it resolved by the Legislature of the State of New Mexico that the Land of Enchantment bets the «whole enchilada» and its reputation as the Chile Capital of the World against the Lone Star State in the Mother of All Chile Wars Festival to be held May 29 - 31, 1993 at the Doña Ana County Fairgrounds.»

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.

This allows journalists and researchers, evolutionary psychologists in particular, to legitimise and naturalise contemporary western values and behaviours by tracing them back to the «mist of prehistory».

A proper study of the hypogeum was finally conducted a few years later by Themistocles Zammit, the curator of the National Museum of Malta and the father of Maltese prehistory.

Greeks, Romans and other later cultures left evidence of their subsequent presence at the site, but it's the Neolithic residents who have captured archaeologists» imaginations: Now, new techniques to analyze the tantalizing clues left by these first settlers may overturn our entire notion of prehistory.

In prehistory, that knowledge can be best measured by the analysis of imported material culture and the interpretation of the context wherein these imports are placed.

A type of site never before described by archaeologists is shedding new light on the prehistory of the American Southwest and may change conventional

Long, tall, solid in appearance, its mere size is reassuring — although it falls short of the proportions reached by monster Chryslers of prehistory.

Kicked off by a small poetic essay by Ross King (Brunelleschi's Dome), a team of international art experts offers a crash course in art appreciation, then leads readers through six chronological sections (from prehistory to contemporary) devoted to pre-eminent artworks and artists.

In 1066, Harold was killed at Hastings by an arrow, the weapon the Chinese believe was invented in prehistory by Huangdi.

The Ghosts of Heaven (Roaring Brook) is composed of four «quarters,» leaping from prehistory to centuries later, that can be read in any order and are all connected by sprials in some way.

While there had been a settlement at the location since prehistory, the city we see today was in a large part founded by Sir Arthur Chichester, who had captained a ship against the Spanish Armada and sailed with Sir Francis Drake.

ARCHAEOLOGY Collections include approximately 75,000 archaeological specimens from 200 sites encompassing the Santa Barbara area and the Northern Channel Islands representing all major periods of prehistory, from excavations by David Banks Rogers and Phil C. Orr during 1923 - 1968.

The type of «information painting» which many contemporary artists seem to be producing today has more than just a formal correspondence with the work of some of the pioneers of Azimuth and of the more obscure artists of the «Arte Programmata»; it is by analyzing the prehistory of the digital age that we can hope to understand better our present.

Madison Square Park has a single statue, by Jaume Plensa, on the scale of prehistory and with a back story to match.

Curated by Anja Henckel and Nadim Samman, Humeau's solo exhibition loops between the aesthetics of prehistory and occult biology and those of science fiction and the Information Age, producing works across multiple mediums that stage «the crossing of great distances in time and space, transitions between animal and mineral, and encounters between personal desires and natural forces».

The 10,000 or so artworks and objects, from prehistory to our time and from across continents, gathered by John and Dominique de Menil from the 1940s until their respective deaths in 1973 and 1997, along with the opening of the Menil Collection in 1987, demonstrate the family's engagement in connecting art and spirituality.

ANDY GOLDSWORTHY»S OUTDOOR ART has prehistory in the American Earthworks of artists like Michael Heizer and Robert Smithson and in the more delicate strain of land art made by Goldsworthy's British compatriots, notably Richard Long and Hamish Fulton.

This emphasis was on full display at Frieze, where its booth featured a brand - new VR work, Transdimensional Serpent (2016), by Jon Rafman, which takes fairgoers inside a world constructed by the artist where myth meets prehistory (think trolls, serpents, wispy forests, starry skies, and bonfires).

The famous eruption in 79 AD was preceded by numerous others in prehistory, including at least three significantly larger ones, the best known being the Avellino eruption around 1800 BC which engulfed several Bronze Age settlements.

Indeed all the evidence from prehistory suggests CO2 level is driven by temperature change not CO2 change drives temperature change.

And prehistory has its own lesson: there is evidence that at least one ancient civilisation may have been toppled by climate change.

If we are concerned about this but also care about logical consistency, then we should leave it to the jury to reject a mistake caused by intoxication on the same basis as any other, ie if it thinks that it was unreasonable on its own merits, and disregarding the prehistory of the mistake.