Sentences with phrase «evidence of human presence»

There is an inert silence about these canvases, where the only evidence of human presence is the linear traces incised across the empty landscape.
The works in this exhibition will explore land as subject matter more than setting, will have little to no evidence of human presence other than the artist's hand, and will be explored in a variety of media including photography, painting, drawing, ceramic, video, collage, and prints.
Calabria is one of the oldest regions of Italy with the first evidence of human presence in the region dating as far back as 700,000 years BC.
His unpublished results, presented at the Dmanisi meeting, are the earliest evidence of a human presence in northern Africa.
There is consistent evidence of a human presence in the Scandinavian peninsula from around 11,700 years ago, and similarities between stone tool artefacts found in Scandinavia and those seen in both Western Europe and Eastern Europe suggest that several groups may have migrated into the area when the ice retreated.

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This mystery of human selfhood, with its connection to but also its freedom from the body, is the best evidence I know for the presence of transcendence in our world.
Long before the space age, humans looking at Mars thought they saw evidence for the presence of water, in the form of giant canals built by some very advanced, very thirsty civilization.
Whether the human origins research community will accept fossil footprints as conclusive evidence of the presence of hominins in the Miocene of Crete remains to be seen,» says Per Ahlberg.
Auriel Willette, a researcher in food science and human nutrition at Iowa State University, found evidence that an elevated presence of a protein called neuronal pentraxin - 2 may slow cognitive decline and reduce brain atrophy in people with Alzheimer's disease.
Auriel Willette, a researcher in food science and human nutrition, found evidence that an elevated presence of a protein called neuronal pentraxin - 2 may slow cognitive decline and reduce brain atrophy in people with Alzheimer's disease.
The timing of this decline correlates with environmental changes associated with the onset of the last glacial cycle, the team reports, whereas archaeological evidence does not support the presence of large populations of humans in eastern Beringia until more than 15,000 years later.
Most archaeologists would tell you it couldn't have been humans, who didn't leave conclusive evidence of their presence in the Americas until about 14,000 years ago.
«The research provides the first evidence that, as early as 15,000 years ago, humans were living in one place long enough to impact local animal communities — resulting in the dominant presence of house mice,» said Fiona Marshall, study co-author and a professor of anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis.
Genetic continuity in south - central Siberia before and after the LGM provides evidence for the presence of humans in the region throughout this cold phase, which is of consequence to population movements into Beringia and ultimately the Americas around 15,000 years ago.
Based on the circumstantial evidence, the researchers concluded the presence of humans in California 130,000 years ago.
«The new species is the most conclusive evidence for the contemporaneous presence of more than one closely related early human ancestor species prior to 3 million years ago,» the Cleveland Museum of Natural History said in a statement released Wednesday.
Her paintings of interiors and objects imply a human presence, but withhold evidence of identity.
The absence of a human figure tasks the objects in the paintings with suggesting a narrative arc, imbuing them with a sense of mysterious drama — a door that is slightly ajar, a glass of water left on a bathroom sink, a broom leaning against a wall are the only evidence of the presence of a person, perhaps having moments before walked through the picture frame, or lingering just out of sight.
In «Terrain,» the artist asks us to «think about these imprints left by the material processes of work as the evidence of our presence on the earth... how contemporary human beings, living in a western urban environment, can relate to the metaphysics of the labor which enables our lives.»
She comments that, «gazing steadily at the point at which one element meets another, Terrain asks us to think about these imprints left by the material processes of work as the evidence of our presence on the earth, and to think about how contemporary human beings, living in a western urban environment, can relate to the metaphysics of the labor which enables our lives.»
While an unidentified source of this type could I suppose be considered a theoretical possibility, it is not only implausible in the absence of evidence, but also unnecessary in the presence of strong evidence for the human role at the extent deducible from the multiple lines of evidence available.
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