Sentences with phrase «by the hunters as»

Their strong docked tails were often used by the hunters as handles to pull them out of the deep burrows.

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From water - and snow - resistant parkas made from skins worn by hunters in polar regions to garments fabricated using woven straw, such as the ancient Japanese

From water - and snow - resistant parkas made from skins worn by hunters in polar regions to garments fabricated using woven straw, such as the ancient Japanese mino, people have long sought ways to remain dry while outside in wet weather.

Because no legal action can be taken against him in France, French Nazi hunters have come to the U.S. to get our Justice Department to punish Bettencourt by prohibiting him from entering the country, much as was done with Kurt Waldheim, erstwhile UN General Secretary and President of Austria.

your delusional if any of it doesn't sound like an explaination of a natural event or something like death where all we have is to guess... its all stone age beliefs and some people are still as smart as ug the stone age hunter who says thank you to the gods of the plains and stars for providing animals to hunt and light to hunt by.

But, as Rubin points out, this attempt to create a post-human hunter - gatherer who lives in mystic harmony with the whole remains deeply reliant upon the blessings of civilization, especially the peace secured by the Enlightenment.

Though this group of heresy - hunters often say they're motivated by concern for the faith once for all delivered to the saints, their practice of labeling every diverging belief as heresy has the opposite effect.

If King's conception of the Deity or deities that inhabit our solar system is that possessed by a primitive tribe of hunter - gatherers or by one of the earliest of civilizations, one of half - human gods (chimeras) or monsters, little concerned with the fate of humanity, both capricious and threatening («As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport»), that is interesting from an anthropological perspective, but what does it have to do with «first things»?

Unlike food animals which are «produced» on farms, such as cows and pigs, kangaroos are shot in the bush by people ranging from recreational to professional hunters, free of any oversight or scrutiny.

[Wild hogs were] «cut open, the bones taken out, and the flesh is gash'd on the inside into the skin, fill'd with salt and expos'd to the sun, which is call'd jirking... [This meat was] brought home to their masters by the hunters, and eats much as bacon, if broil'd on coals.»

Sunflower oil originated in North America and was originally harvested by hunter gatherer societies as a natural source of fat.

A century ago the herd probably numbered as many as 25,000, but the hunters who closed in on it each year during the winter rendezvous in Magdalena Bay reduced it to 100 or so by the start of World War II.

He fought Mau Mau (between safaris) as a young white hunter and was panegyrized in books by Robert Ruark.

go instead to suport man ciy or chelsea they have owners who can satisfy your glory hunter instinct... and you can believe me, i have more respect as an arseal fan forTOTTENHAM and liverpool than these «clubs» owned by a russian mafiosi or an arabic nabab

In proper season, somewhere in the grass or rubble, the visitor may come upon Harold (Sonny) Henderson, a genial 46 - year - old Scots - English - Polynesian whose eminence as a hunter is well established but is — as is the case with many active Hawaiians — rather obscured by peculiar distinctions in several sports.

Part could be earmarked as compensation for landowners who cooperate with the state by opening their properties and suffer property damage by hunters.

I like sharing the things I am doing as a DIY - er, bargain - hunter, and stay - at - home mom, who is inspired by Montessori and Positive Discipline parenting theories.

Boys whose fathers engaged in physical play but without excessive direction were rated as more popular by their teachers.48 Effects of fathers may vary across children's ages, with fathers of adolescent sons frequently playing important roles in those son's transitions, as seen among Arnhem land Australian aborigines.49 Among the Aka hunter - gatherers of Central African Republic, males of varying ages report that they predominantly learned subsistence and social behavioural norms from their fathers.50

These bills allow hunters as young as age 14 to hunt big game when accompanied by a parent or guardian, or by an experienced hunter aged 18 or over.

The gun rights folks would tell you the AR - 15 is a «common weapon», and in a numerical sense, they are absolutely correct, as they are extremely popular, common, and frequently used by sportsmen and hunters.

At least # 1bn could be saved by these checks it is estimated and the private sector «bounty hunters», as The Telegraph calls them, will receive # 50m reward payments if they hit these targets.

Towards this end, states governments have been given a 21 days ultimatum to disarm vigilantees and neighbourhood watch group, hunters and watch - night men or any group or association under any capacity or guise other than statutory security agencies recognized and gazetted by the Federal Government of Nigeria to bear firearms of specified category; who are currently possessing and using prohibited / illegal firearms such as Pump action gun and the likes for whatsoever purpose.

Among the ludicrous ideas once taken as fact: Beavers escape hunters by chewing off their own testicles and dropping them as a distraction.

Often known as the Triangulum Galaxy it was observed by the French comet hunter Charles Messier in August 1764, who listed it as number 33 in his famous list of prominent nebulae and star clusters.

Coss» paper grew out of a 2015 study in which he and a former graduate student reported that zebras living near human settlements could not be approached as closely before fleeing as wild horses when they saw a human approaching on foot — staying just outside the effective range of poisoned arrows used by African hunters for at least 24,000 years.

By mapping current conditions with the help of Inuit hunters as well as by compiling maps of the past based on oral histories and the memories of elders, the researchers hope to capture the Inuit's special understanding of sea icBy mapping current conditions with the help of Inuit hunters as well as by compiling maps of the past based on oral histories and the memories of elders, the researchers hope to capture the Inuit's special understanding of sea icby compiling maps of the past based on oral histories and the memories of elders, the researchers hope to capture the Inuit's special understanding of sea ice.

Then in Lawrence Keeley's 1996 book War Before Civilization I read that modern states at their worst, such as Germany in the 20th century or France in the 19th century, had rates of death in warfare that were dwarfed by those of hunter - gatherer and hunter - horticultural societies.

That's almost as many as the estimated 20 million mourning doves legally shot and killed each year by hunters.

Although Liebenberg's observations support the runner - as - hunter hypothesis, Bramble and Lieberman think early Homo would more likely have first run to scavenge prey killed by other carnivores — a strategy the Hadza people of East Africa are known to use.

As population densities of hunter - gatherers slowly rose at the end of the ice ages, bands had to choose between feeding more mouths by taking the first steps toward agriculture, or else finding ways to limit growth.

Likewise, another popular origins trope, «Man the Hunter,» depicts evolution as driven by an early dietary shift and a dependence on males for precious meat, implying that women mated only with males who were successful hunters.

One beautiful case of parallel evolution is the double domestication of rice in Africa as well as Asia, which was followed by its double «de-domestication,» or reversion to a wild form, all within the roughly 10,000 years since hunter - gatherers became settled farmers.

They found that frugivores which are not targeted by hunters — such as small birds, bats and marsupials — are only able to disperse small seeds, which are associated with small trees.

The boa, which is an opportunistic hunter, took Teixeira by surprise as it fell from a tree clinging to two young marmosets (Callithrix penicillata).

A 9000 - year - old decapitated head discovered in South America is twice as old as previous finds, and suggests veneration of the dead by early hunter - gatherers

For instance, sleeping less than six hours per night may increase appetite, as some studies suggest, but a sleep - deprived office worker surrounded by fast - food joints is more likely to become obese than a physically active hunter - gatherer faced with a limited food supply.

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

This suggests that they could have been selected by Stone Age hunters to be used as projectile weapons.

At 12 cm, Eocypselus rowei, discovered in Wyoming by commercial fossil hunters, is built on the same small scale as hummingbirds (upper right) and swifts (lower right), its modern - day cousins.

Mesolithic peoples were still fishing abundant sturgeon and other river fish and maintaining long - distance relations with other hunter - gatherers, as evidenced by necklaces made from marine shells from the distant Black Sea.

Unlike early human hunter - gatherer groups, Neanderthals concentrated almost entirely on hunting big game, as evidenced by the abundance of large animal bones in Neanderthal archaeological sites.

The researchers traveled by canoe upriver into the Amazon to study the diet and health of the Matses community, who are among the last hunter - gatherers in the world; they still hunt monkey, sloth, alligator, and other game, as well as gather wild tubers in the forest and fish in the rivers.

This contrasts with previous Mesolithic hunters who, as the man from La Braña in León (Spain)- recovered in 2014 by the same researcher team -, had blue eyes and a darker skin than current Europeans.

New DNA evidence reported in the journal Current Biology helps to provide the answer by showing that, at least in the area now known as Romania, hunter - gatherers and farmers were living side by side, intermixing with each other, and having children.

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.

That's the shocking new hypothesis being raised by anthropologists in Spain, who wonder if our closest extinct relative was exterminated in the same way as 178 other large mammals, so - called megafauna, which are suspected of going at least partially by the hand of hungry human hunters.

Planets like Kepler - 1647b in orbit around binary stars are known as circumbinary planets, and planet hunters spot them by looking for a dimming in the light from a star as the planet transits, or passes in front of the star from our perspective.

Also known as the caveman diet, the Paleo diet is inspired by ancient hunters and gatherers.

In addition to raw liver, I prepare the shakes with fermented vegetables like sauerkraut or kimchi (to simulate ruminant intestinal contents, which were also savored by traditional hunters) as well as kefir (unclear whether fermented milk was regularly consumed by hunters, but is nonetheless useful as a supplemental probiotic.)

For example, ancient hunter - gatherers ate oats as confirmed by archaeological evidence.