Sentences with phrase «early modern people»

Trinkaus suggests that the early modern people, who used the Qafzeh and Skhul caves in what is now Israel, had a more complex social life than the Neanderthals of the Amud, Tabun and Kebara caves.

For medieval and early modern people the breast was anything but an abstract symbol.

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I am sometimes horrified by things people my age tend to say in social and business situations, especially when they express a disdain of modern technology or recall an earlier era as a golden age — usually everyone within hearing knows that the previous period was merely different, rather than glorious.

Democrats have revived the gun debate after 49 people were killed at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida, early Sunday, the worst such incident in modern history.

As a historian I do not want people downplaying horrific events for modern points - be it the early persecution of the church, the Crusades, the holocaust - whatever it might be.

For this reason we probably ought to distinguish between anti-Semitism and anti-Jewish thought — the former being that modern phenomenon all democratic persons are eager to combat; the latter the expressions of hostility or dislike found in earlier periods as a result of the specific religious and historical role the Jews and their antagonists have played.

In our modern world there are many people who make up imaginary stories about early man.

Similarly, in the early modern period, most people, including most scientists, saw the cosmos as a very complex machine that was obviously made by a powerful mind of enormous intelligence.

It is, however, a mentality that Dawson seeks to capture, and he grounds it historically in the emergence of late medieval / early modern urbanites whose place in society Dawson thinks contributed to a view of persons as isolated individuals, disconnected from the land and from one another.

(R. M. MacIver: The Modern State, pp. 103 - 104) It was the glory of Roman jurists in the early centuries A.D. that they first conceived the jus gentium, the natural law of all peoples, as incorporating the duties and rights which belonged to human beings everywhere.

These people associate Modern Paganism with the pagan religions of antiquity, which were in direct competition with early Christianity.

The culture of Islamic countries has grown through the interaction of groups of Islamic peoples of widely varied ethnic and geographic backgrounds and through strong cultural influences from the non-Islamic civilizations of Greece, Persia, and India in the early days, and of western Europe in modern times.

Monism has taken various guises: from the royal absolutism of the early modern period to the Jacobin insistence on the sovereignty of the people to the virtual divinization of the Party in Marxist - Leninist states.

Incidents of people being forced to work against their will under the threat of punishment, human trafficking, child slavery, and forced or early marriage are all considered forms of modern slavery, according to the Anti-Slavery International.

They were not, of course, the first critics of dogma but they carried through systematically the criticisms of an earlier age by people such as Fausto Socinus of the sixteenth century, perhaps the first «modern» process theologian.

The Marxist philosopher Ernst Bloch thinks that the relative neglect of the problem of death in modern secular thought is due to the unconscious influence of inherited Christian views: «Thus in its ability to suppress the anxiety of all earlier times, apparently this quite shallow courage [of modern secular people] feasts on a borrowed credit card.

Among the Hebrews, therefore, as among early peoples generally, and, indeed, down to modern times, the process of courtship involved a commercial transaction.

During the Early modern period, the term «atheist» was used as an insult and applied to a broad range of people, including those who held opposing theological beliefs, as well as suicides, immoral or self - indulgent people, and even opponents of the belief in witchcraft.

Indeed, he traces this phenomenon back to the formation of a class of «imperial» intellectuals in the early Roman Empire.17 Nor did, in his view, the modern secular intellectuals wholly escape from an analogous position relative to the mass of the Italian people.

I mean, most people didn't have a modern oven in their kitchen until the early 1900s.

In other news, our team seems to be rounding nicely into form, with a productive off - season and several new additions already settling in, there seems to be a renewed sense of confidence in the air... our well - oiled machine has conducted business again early this year, so we can just sit back, kick our feet up and watch all those other suckers scramble to make panic moves in the 11th hour... of course, we need to tie up a few loose ends but our team of savvy negotiators, under the tutelage of our faithful leader, will perform their usual magic with ample time to spare... I have to laugh when I look around the soccer world and see all those teams look upon us with envy and scorn as they struggle to mimic our seemingly infallible business model... thank goodness the powers that be had the foresight and fortitude to resist the temptations of the modern football era... instead of listening to all the experts and simply taking the easy way out by making the necessary improvements on the field and in the front office, we chose the path never traveled... we are truly pioneers in our field... sometimes you just have to have faith in the people that have always conducted themselves in a respectful and honest fashion... most fans aren't so fortunate, they will never know what it's like to follow a team that treats everyone in and around the club as if they were an extended member of the family... all for one I say... so when you wake up this morning, please try not to gloat when you see rival fans pacing back and forth waiting for their respective teams to pull the usual panic buys, just say nothing and be thankful that it isn't you... like I've always said, this is why you stay the course... this is when the real benefits of having someone in charge for over 2 decades really pays off... have a great day fellow Gunners

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Thus, people across the board would start waking up; just as Holocaust memorial day was held earlier this week, so we would have a day to raise awareness of slavery, modern - day slavery and human trafficking.

People were once thought to have ancient psyches ill - suited to modern existence, but they have adapted much more quickly than early theories had predicted

To test this, Shelby Putt, an anthropologist at the Stone Age Institute and Indiana University, compared the brains of modern people making Oldowan and Acheulean tools in a study published earlier this year in Nature Human Behavior.

Researchers sequencing Neandertal DNA have concluded that between 1 and 4 percent of the DNA of people today who live outside Africa came from Neandertals, the result of interbreeding between Neandertals and early modern humans.

«We know that there are likely to have been at least two admixture events into the ancestors of present - day people — the shared event early during modern human migration out of Africa, and a second event into the ancestors of present - day Asians,» says Kelso.

We do know that the artists were among the earliest inhabitants of southern Africa, the ancestors of the modern - day «San» peoples.

Traditionally most Maasai hunt, gather wild fruits and vegetables, and raise cattle, but do little farming, making their way of life a fair surrogate for that of the preagricultural Natufians, Weissbrod says, although it should be noted that the Maasai are a fully modern people no more closely related to early hunter - gatherers than are any other people on Earth.

These ancient indigenous inhabitants, many of them ancestors to the modern Tsimshian, were a seafaring people who first encountered Europeans in the early 1700s.

Whether sex addiction is a real disorder, whether banning prostitution stops people paying for sex, and if modern culture encourages the early sexualisation of children.

«We are now back to the intriguing question — who were the ancestors of our modern horses, and who were the peoples that were responsible for their early husbandry?»

One study argues that an earlier wave of modern humans contributed traces to the genomes of living people from Papua New Guinea.

Analyzing 379 new genomes from 125 populations worldwide, the group concludes that at least 2 % of the genomes of people from Papua New Guinea comes from an early dispersal of modern humans, who left Africa perhaps 120,000 years ago.

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Biological anthropologists look at skeletal remains of past cultures to gain insight into how earlier peoples lived, and forensic anthropologists work with modern - day law enforcement to decipher skeletal evidence and solve crimes.

By comparing mutations from enough people, researchers can construct family trees with roots that reach back to the earliest modern humans.

Nevertheless, people accept that languages evolve and that modern languages derive from earlier ones that were, in many cases, considerably different.

Modern human - driven forces, like climate change and pollution, are «orders of magnitude more destructive than what early humans were doing,» Lyons said, but even at the dawn of human civilizations, people were certainly having major — and unprecedented — ecological impacts, she said.

The modern populations of these valleys, who share cultural and linguistic affinities with peoples found today on the Tibetan plateau, were commonly assumed to be the descendants of the earliest inhabitants of the Himalayan arc.

If we mean the earliest representatives of Homo, the genus to which we belong, then the answer is quite different from the one if we mean the earliest people whose anatomy closely resembles our own (so - called anatomically modern Homo sapiens).

``... the fossil record reveals that the features possessed by the early hominids who lived in Europe, Asia and Africa, have exactly the same sort of range as those we see in modern people.»

Coincidentally or otherwise, this new reconstruction of the Neanderthals» complicated early history closely resembles what we learned about the populations of anatomically modern people who first spread into Europe and Asia.

She is an inherent activist, empowering people around reproductive health and guiding thousands of people in their transition from pregnancy to parenthood in her practice and through her book, Nurture: A Modern Guide to Pregnancy, Birth, and Early Motherhood.

VanBebber's strategy of fabricating a new antique is in line with Guy Maddin's stated attempt to do the same — the distinction being that The Manson Family actually resembles what people were watching in Texas drive - ins circa the 1970s whereas Maddin's films look like the state in which modern viewers can see silent and early sound pictures.

Although John Carpenter's 1978 film, Halloween, is widely called by many people the first of the true modern slasher films, many genre enthusiasts point to this little Canadian shocker, released four years earlier, as the one that set the blueprint.

I know his extensive work in TV in the 1950s and early 1960s — which included almost every episode of Edward R. Murrow's celebrity interview show Person To Person — mostly through its reputation for interesting camerawork, and though A Tour Of The White House is fairly dull, it manages a few stylish dolly shots that would be unthinkable for a modern TV program.

K - 4.3 The History of the United States: Democratic Principles and Values and the People from Many Cultures Who Contributed to Its Cultural, Economic, and Political Heritage GRADES 5 - 12 NSS - USH.5 - 12.1 Era 1: Three Worlds Meet (Beginnings to 1620) NSS - USH.5 - 12.2 Era 2: Colonization and Settlement (1585 - 1763) NSS - USH.5 - 12.3 Era 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754 - 1820s) NSS - USH.5 - 12.4 Era 4: Expansion and Reform (1801 - 1861) NSS - USH.5 - 12.5 Era 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850 - 1877) NSS - USH.5 - 12.6 Era 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870 - 1900) NSS - USH.5 - 12.7 Era 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890 - 1930) NSS - USH.5 - 12.8 Era 8: The Great Depression and World War II (1929 - 1945) NSS - USH.5 - 12.9 Era 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970s) NSS - USH.5 - 12.10 Era 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the Present)

Earlier this month the Chairs of the Education, Skills and Economy Committee slammed the Government's failure to address inadequacies in careers guidance as «unacceptable», demanding that Ministers act to improve provision as a matter of urgency to ensure young people are equipped with the right skills to succeed in the modern economy.