Sentences with phrase «even earlier cultures»

Up to 10 percent of the Amazon soil is a blend of charcoal and pottery called terra preta (dark earth)-- a product of even earlier cultures that appear to have added soil to ground rather than depleted it.

Even early cultures knew not to eat meat that's turning bad, so the idea of hiding the smell of rotting meat with spices is, to me, absurd.

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The grueling culture begins even earlier than on the first day of work, according to a former SpaceX employee.

It's rare that even top managers have office doors anymore; the egalitarian ethos of the early Internet boom — where companies were more likely to equip their offices with foosball tables than boardroom tables — irrevocably changed corporate culture.

In the early days of digital culture, Jaron Lanier helped craft a vision for the internet as public commons where knowledge was available to all — but even then, this vision was haunted by the dark side of how it could turn out.

In our culture, it's often ingrained in people's minds — even as early as childhood — that it's rude to talk about money.

That one should probably go to some kind of frugal diaries or confessions, but if you know a bit the European culture, it is not that big of a deal, actually many of my cousins who are in their late 20s / early 30s do not even have their driving license!

In regards to your comment «the fact that you even know about Euhemerus is a product of Christian learning and appreciation of alternate views», we should, indeed, be thankful for early Christian monks who helped preserve the knowledge of prior centuries, but perhaps you are unaware of the contribution of Greek civilization to Western culture and the «Age of Enlightenment» in late 17th century Europe with figures such as Denis Diderot, Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Voltaire, Baruch Spinoza, etc..

The contemporary «learning society,» overwhelmed with information, knowledge and entertainment, requires discerning and constructive responses of an even greater order than those of the early church in the sophisticated rhetorical culture of the Roman Empire, or the early modern Western church faced with printing and transformations in scholarship, geographical horizons, sciences, nations and industries.

In the East, the South, and the Midwest, even among persons who have no individual experience of these churches, there remains an established culture shaped by the earlier preeminence of these churches.

The early Christians profoundly impacted their culture through their generous lifestyles, even though most of them were poor.

For the early explorers, and certainly for those in Europe reading their first reports, the specificity and detail of America's native flora and fauna, and even more, its aboriginal Indian cultures, which by 1492 had already completed a long and distinguished history in this hemisphere, were swallowed up in a generalized feeling of newness which replaced that specificity and detail with the blank screen of an alleged «state of nature.»

We need to rebuild Catholic literary culture from the ground up — even, perhaps, as Beverly Schneller and Kevin Hart suggested earlier, starting with the basement.

After all, he was not a medieval Christian — even an early medieval Christian — but a member of the preceding culture: the classical world of Rome, whose formative principles derived from the even earlier Hellenic or Greek culture.

Whereas, earlier, it had been believed that the Aryans found only peoples of relatively undeveloped culture, now it is known that at least some of these early Indians had developed the arts to a high degree, that they even had a kind of hieroglyphic writing, not yet deciphered, and probably an equally well developed religion which, suppressed for a time, gradually reasserted itself and greatly modified Vedic religion, gradually transforming it into the Hinduism as practiced in India today.

It is increasingly clear that Deuteronomy and the Priestly writings contain at least some material much older than is indicated by the usual dating of the documents.9 Increasingly, too, it would appear that scholars are disposed to accept the substantial reliability of the persistent tradition which sees Moses as a lawgiver.10 That law was an early and significant aspect of Israelite culture is further attested not only by ancient Near Eastern parallels but even more strikingly in the life, the work and the character of the first three great names in Israel's national history: Moses, Samuel and Elijah.

Not just the Hindu, but also the Buddhist and the Jam, the Christian, the Muslim and the Sikh, and even earlier than these, the primal cultures of dalits and tribals provided both a defense against cultural domination and possibilities of mutual enrichment.

In this book you'll find: Simple ways to great family communication even when you're busy Easy ways to help kids cope when life throws them curve balls The secrets to working from the same page with your partner How to build a strong family culture so your family stays together How to get cooperation from your kids without tears, fears and bribery Why you must develop independence in kids from an early age

Culturally speaking, here in the western world we start potty learning very, very, very late (in most cultures around the world even today, pottying happens much earlier simply due to logistics — just consider how few people really have access to disposable diapers or laundry facilities to accomodate cloth diaper washing, so these cultures are simply more aware of and responsive to a baby's innate ability to recognize and signal about their need for elimination, just as a baby is able to signal for hunger).

When we think of all the horror stories we've been told about what will happen if we don't follow a laundry list of rules about how to raise our children in today's modern, Western society, you can bet that pretty much none of it applied to our early ancestors (or even other cultures today).

Your early prenatal appointment (s) may include a physical exam, Pap smear, cervical cultures, and possibly even an ultrasound if there is question about how far along you are.

Although the bulk of the commercial manufacturing uses cultures of bacteria, such as Escherichia coli or Chinese hamster ovary cells, a few biotech companies are trying to produce therapeutic proteins in the milk of transgenic mammals (such as GTC Biotherapeutics, which is using goats; PPL Therapeutics, which is using sheep; and BioProtein Technologies, which is working with rabbits), transgenic chicken eggs (such as Avigenics or Vivalis), or even in transgenic crops (such as ProdiGene or Meristem Therapeutics); but it is early days for these «pharming» methods.

Already, the team has developed a simple test that seems to be completely capable of weeding out the bad clones very early, perhaps even at the tissue culture stage.

While avocados only gained popularity in the US in the last several decades, they've been popular in other parts of the world for centuries and were considered a superfood by cultures like the Aztecs, who even had some of the earliest guacamole recipes.

Unlike milking practices adopted by ancient nomadic cultures that restricted milking to the early months of pregnancy (when hormonal levels in the pregnant cows were relatively low), modern dairy farms maintain pregnancy in dairy cows about 80 % of the year and milk throughout pregnancy, even during months when hormonal levels are relatively high.

An advertisement film (variously called a television commercial, commercial or ad in American English, and known in British English as a TV advert or The principle of Yin and Yang is a fundamental concept in Chinese philosophy and culture in general dating from the third century BCE or even earlier...

Even in this culture, seven is too early for irony.

While the plot is considered dark by Mario standards, as in earlier Paper Mario titles, humorous dialogue and references to other games, nerd culture, popular culture, and even mythology abound.

All - time great screenwriter Robert Towne made his first foray into direction with «Personal Best» which is still a pretty decent drama set among the women competing for a place on the US athletics Olympics team, even if it's now become something of a pop - culture byword among men who felt early stirrings at its scenes of hardbodied lesbianism.

Other ways school culture reflects Meaningful Student Involvement include, but are not limited to, educators maintaining a substantial focus on student involvement even when students appear to be disinterested; gradual or radical shifts in student - adult relationships to reflect higher perceptions of students and the elements of Student / Adult Partnerships introduced earlier in this book; and visually observable aspects, including relaxed conversations among students and adults about education and school improvement; verbal and written reflection shared among students and adults; and rituals reflecting Meaningful Student Involvement, including committee participation, Non-Violent Communication between students and adults; and student orientation programs led by students and adults.

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Over time, Chichen Itza moved even further away from Classic Mayan culture leaving behind earlier traditions.

It's still early, but even so the game throws a few concepts your way that are distinctly Japanese and a bit alien to anyone not familiar with Japanese culture.

From early figurative paintings, through collages and video installations, to her radical work in dance and performance, Ms. Schneemann has consistently — insistently — made the personal political, bridging divides between eras and cultures, even species.

Even as early as the mid-Sixties a heavily edited version of Pop emerged that was white, male and American, mildly ambivalent towards the popular culture it appropriated, but ultimately revelling in its ability to antagonise the establishment's fine art sensibilities through its celebration of surface and its indifference to the sort of intellectual underpinning that had characterised Abstract Expressionism.

This exhibition explores the paramount role of Jewish women in the creation of Vienna's salon culture — social hotbeds of political discourse and a culture from the late 18th to the early 20th century held in private homes — while foregrounding the hostesses» contribution to the capital's cultural, commercial and political life even in the face of sexism and facism.

Visual arts culture and cultural tourism have been part of the city's fabric since the early days of the 20th century, even before New Mexico was admitted as the 47th State in the Union in 1912.

Breton's continuing links to Lam not only reflect the internationalist perspective that Breton and the other Europeans brought to the New York art scene in the early 1940s, but Lam's work and even the person of the artist himself (whose father was Chinese) also exemplify the rich mix of cultures in the New World that increasingly shaped the second half of the twentieth century and its art.

Nonetheless, his early influences from Eastern philosophical and religious doctrines, Japanese culture and Rosicrucian esoterism - traditions that form the foundation of his visionary project - are often downplayed or even denied in an effort to tout his impervious originality.

Early colonisation of the globe gives way to the homogenization of culture, as the boundaries of the geopolitical collapse under the weight of an era of virtual globalisation, where even temporal boundaries fail — with a sly dig at the empty commerciality of the process resulting in a miniature «Pop banality» — and it's hilarious to boot.

But, as our earliest ancestors learned to create fire, they found they could extend their days beyond the confines of daylight — and it was in these flame - lit hours, after the hunts had ended and labor halted, that men and women first began to craft their stories and culture around a fire their evening repose.

More than 10 000 years ago, agricultural societies accelerated these early defaunation and land clearing processes, ultimately replacing them with even more novel ecological transformations, including the culture of domesticated species, widespread soil tillage, sustained societal growth, and ever - increasing scales of material exchange, leading to globally significant transformation of the terrestrial biosphere by at least 3000 years before the present time.

With cultural differences between the three communities and important marine resources growing more and more scarce, early community meetings were contentious, but eventually even those that opposed earlier conservation efforts came to realize that if they lost the hawksbill, they would lose everything that was important to them including their food, income and culture.

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Sweeney warns: «Your key talent won't wait around if, early on, they don't like the feel of a new organisation, even though ultimately the culture may change for the better later down the line.»

Even those who later reject all or part of the family culture often discover that they are not entirely free of their early influences.

These relations between culture and learning do not fade away, but become even more pronounced as children move from early into middle childhood and adolescence.

According to the Office of Head Start, currently «over 140 languages are spoken by children and families in Head Start and the number of cultures represented is even greater» (Early Head Start National Resource Center @ ZERO TO THREE, p. 6).