Sentences with phrase «even millennium»

«It is likely that they lived side by side with local hunter - gatherer populations for a period of time — centuries or even a millennium or two — with increasing contact and mixing among the two communities.»

But it can legitimately be asked whether many of these characteristics are unique to the modern period, whether they are intensifying, or whether they might not also have characterized Western religion a century or even a millennium ago.

The various cultic interpretations of the poems remind us that such poetry as this is never created new, but rather always draws from the articulate lover of last spring and the spring before and the spring before that, and so on back not merely over the years, but over the centuries and even the millennia.

Going all the way back for Centuries, even millennias.

Current research methods such as ice - core drilling can produce high - quality records of aerosols and soot going back centuries and even millennia, he says, and «these written accounts provide a good complement» to the data.

Over the course of weeks, years, or even millennia, she surmised, the tendrils of water leaking upward would refreeze.

While CO2 persists in the atmosphere for centuries, or even millennia, methane warms the planet on steroids for a decade or two before decaying to CO2.

But centuries, even millennia after the emergence of these cultures, they bear the marks of their desert pasts.

All human societies have many apparently arbitrary practices that persist for centuries or even millennia — writing systems, counting systems, sets of number signs, and calendars, to name just a few examples.

Why It Matters: The traditional view of the mineralization process involves some very slow chemical reactions between carbonic acid and the host reservoir rock that take centuries or even millennia to convert a significant amount of injected carbon dioxide into carbonates.

Abstract art is usually thought of as a modern invention, but its history in Turkey goes back centuries, even millennia.

Ahrarnia's central premise is the ambivalent engagement between West and East spanning centuries or even millennia.

Records of tree - ring characteristics such as their width (TRW) and density (usually the maximum density of the wood formed towards the end of the growing season — the «maximum latewood density» — MXD) are widely used to infer past variations in climate over recent centuries and even millennia.

Locked in the ancient striations — each representing a winter's accumulation of compacted snow — is a unique natural record of climatic and atmospheric conditions from decades, centuries, even millenniums past.

Reality is always there; we could in principle have got closer to it centuries or even millennia ago.

The optimistic view: there is still time for us to take bold, decisive actions that will shape our planet for decades (and even millennia) to come... A California resilient to increasing 21st century climate whiplash won't emerge overnight, but we now know enough about our plausible climate future to make informed decisions.»

Paleoenvironmental studies suggest that the AMO has persisted through previous centuries [Gray et al., 2004] and even millennia [Knudsen et al., 2011].»

As climate conditions are subject to change, tree species that have reigned in particular areas for centuries, possibly even millennia, will slowly decline and disappear.

Carbon models all indicate that the ocean will continue to be a net sink for CO2 for a long long time into the future on the scale of centuries or even millennia.

Cold temperatures prevent the complete breakdown of dead biomass in the boreal, so that carbon is accumulated over time, sometimes even millennia.

The increased water temperature will cause symbiotic bacteria in corals of the Great Barrier Reef to produce toxically high levels of oxygen, which will kill colonies of coral that are centuries or even millennia old and occupy the equivalent of Japan's landmass under water.

There are not many human activities whose impact can reasonably be predicted decades, centuries, or even millennia in advance.

However, if CO2 emissions aren't drastically reduced temperatures will get a lot warmer over the coming centuries and even millennia than during the previous interglacial.

The uncertainties can reach centuries or even millennia due to carbon reservoir effects, wrong assumptions about sedimentation rates between and beyond the tie - point ages and due to the «lock - in depth», which means that magnetic particles might remain subject to adjustment while the sediment is still unconsolidated.

The noise is all pretty much short timescale, while the signal persists for decades — or even millennia.

Not exact matches

Even though the shelf life of his business seems limited, he holds that unlike many other millennium - inspired enterprises, his will thrive far beyond the year 2000.

Even more than the Constitution, which was written by a group of men over a span of months, the Bible, which was written by many different voices over millennia, is (to borrow from Souter) a «pantheon of values.»

This charge is simply not true, as there is both philological and archaeological evidence for knowledge and use of this animal in the early second millennium BC and even earlier.

But come on now, the European Jews (Ashkenazim) who dominate Judaism today are far too European looking, mixed to almost non-existent original middle eastern / Israelite blood, perhaps even Khazar (people of Russian Steppes) converts mixed with Poles, Germans, Hungarians, Lithuanian, Russian etc. etc. in countries they settled in two millennium.

Only a complete revision of how we approach educating both children and, yes, even adults in the way the world works, according to science and NOT supersti - tion, is going to give us the hope we so desperately seek in ensuring that the U.S. survives and thrives far into this millennium.

, avoids discussion of many moral sticking points of the next few millennia (even though he knew in advance they'd be sticking points and could have provided clearer guidance), and then makes one of the central points of the entire story — and his entire reason for being here really — a personal sacrifice that is so va.gue that no one can even explain how or what was, in fact, sacrificed.

Religions have had millennia, yet there is still no consensus on even basic ideas like the number of gods that exist, much less any attributes they might have.

Even more: in his first trip to Poland in 1979, the Pope concluded his appeal with the words: «From the crosses in Nova Huta began the new evangelisation, the evangelisation of the second millennium... This evangelisation of the second millennium must refer to the teaching of the Second Vatican Council.

The pessimists fear that the third millennium, perhaps even the first century of it, may bring crises of colossal proportions for the human species.

Even by traditional reckoning, the start of the new millennium should be January 2001, as the Royal Greenwich Observatory has declared and the title of the popular film, 2001: A Space Odyssey, suggests.

For almost the last 3 millennia, man has been shackled to an outdated, antique, donkey - and - cart theology, worshiping a God that could care less about religion, and even less about which denomination you belong to.

Even if we consider the 2000 years of history that are recorded in the Bible, these biblical records only cover the tiniest fraction of human events that took place during these two millennia.

It also marks a major historical change — an impoverishment, indeed even a disfigurement — for Catholicism, which has for two millennia played a hugely formative and inspirational role in the arts.

Some even predicted a religious revival in the new millennium.

God wouldn't even let Abraham's family overtake the promised land for another half a millennium.

Jesus proclaims that the words of the prophet are not about some distant future, nor even about the near millennium.

The pristine newness of the «new world» seemed to be heavy with an even more radical newness: the coming of the millennium, the fullness of times, when God would create a new heaven and a new earth beginning right here in North America.

And I'm praying to have rise in you again the kind of holy anger that makes the Christian life of the new millennium even holier than the last.

Even earlier, those who had given their time and talents for interfaith relations shared a celebrative moment when the United Nations recognized the importance of interfaith relations and summoned a conference of religious leaders in New York just prior to the Millennium summit meeting of world leaders in August 2000.

«Fulfillment» didn't even come onto religious thought until the nonsense of «fulfilled prophesy» became popular LATE LATE in Hebrew culture, (when apocalypticism became popular), near the turn of the millennium.

Even a more moderate historian — one who suspects that the biblical account of Solomon's reign is based on folk tales and legends that circulated more than a half millennium after the real Solomon lived, yet is open to the possibility that these folk tales and legends hark back to a historical figure — may have reservations about crediting this legendary Solomon with the fortifications and gates at Hazor, Gezer and Megiddo.

By the end of the first millennium, the newly emerged Christendom had extended its power and cultural influence even further than the boundaries of the former Roman Empire.

So began the idea of a millennium, which even yet in Biblical fundamentalism exercises a potent sway over the imagination of many Christians, and upon which the curiosity of the credulous has worked for centuries in an endeavor to predict «times and seasons.»

Having scarcely emerged, after millennia of painful differentiation, from what the ethnologists call the state of primitive co - consciousness, are we now, through the very excess of our civilization, to sink back into a state of even greater obscurity?

For the first time in half a millennium, church officials have allowed access to a tomb even more famous than that of «King Tut,» the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun.