The lion share of emotionally evocative stimuli in the lives of our ancestors would have been from the faces and bodies of other people, and if one
finds human artifacts that are highly evocative, it is a good hunch that it looks or sounds human in some way.
Not exact matches
After that
finding, North Dakota's chief archaeologist, Paul Picha, inspected the area and said no sign of
artifacts or
human remains had been
found.
With that in mind, I have noticed that many, if not most new converts can have, in all appearances, a genuine spiritual experience before any high doctrine of «scriptural authority ever enters their head.Now, some may say that just how it works, first you crawl, then you walk... baby food, then the meat, but this is my point... the world is full of «spiritual meatheads»... there are so many believers who wdn't know an original thought, unless of course, they cd
find the chapter and verse to unequivocally support it.Is it so difficult to comprehend how a collection of ancient documents may not be the final, complete and indisputable Word of God, but mere
human artifacts, sometimes godly, sometimes not, sometimes helping, sometimes hindering.?
And modern
humans also were apparently drawn to the large, light - filled cave, given the more recent
artifacts found there.
Blombos Cave, South Africa: Dated to about 100,000 years ago, ochre - processing «tool kits» and other
artifacts found at the site — including an engraved piece of ochre, the oldest known art of its type — suggest early
humans were capable of modern, complex behaviors much earlier than once thought.
Although Châtelperronian
artifacts closely resemble those made by modern
humans, many researchers have attributed them to Neandertals because they have sometimes been
found with Neandertal fossils.
Now, a study uses a new method that relies on ancient proteins to identify and directly date Neandertal bone fragments from Grotte du Renne and
finds that the connection between the archaic
humans and the
artifacts is real.
Recent
finds from a site in Russia about 250 miles south of Moscow suggest that the first
humans in Europe were Eastern European.The discoveries include bone and carved ivory
artifacts.
«Some of the
artifacts found right under the ash were almost certainly made by modern
humans,» says John Hoffecker, a University of Colorado archaeologist working at the site.
Scientists working in the desert badlands of northwestern Kenya have
found stone tools dating back 3.3 million years, long before the advent of modern
humans, and by far the oldest such
artifacts yet discovered.
Last December, Peter Stäheli and his team at the University of Freiburg, Germany, reported that most of the
human isolates
found so far were most closely related to the strains used in the labs that had
found them — suggesting the
findings had been
artifacts, caused by contamination.
Steve: You know, today is also the anniversary of the death of Darwin, speaking of the
human evolution with Kate, and just to finish up — am I wrong, but isn't the place you're most likely to
find a fistfight at a conference, one of these
human evolution anthropology conferences where people are arguing over whether that bone represents a new species or just an example of a known species or whether some
artifact is again a new species or some kind of pathological example of an old species?
Mayan
artifacts and
human bones that appear to be at least 9,000 years old were
found in Mexico's Sac Actun, the largest underwater cave system in the world.
Artifacts of
human or other industrial civilizations are unlikely to be
found on a planet's surface after about 4 million years, wrote Frank and study co-author Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
However, in 1913 and 1914, more
finds were made at Piltdown, including a canine tooth intermediate in size between that of apes and
humans, and a unique carved
artifact made from a large piece of elephant bone that because of its shape became known as the «cricket bat».
Mayan
artifacts have been
found here, along with 12,000 - year - old
human bones.
The first evidences of
human appearance in Bali date back to the Stone Age, tens of thousands years ago, with the
founding of few
artifacts that are believed to be reminiscent of small bands of...
The first evidences of
human appearance in Bali date back to the Stone Age, tens of thousands years ago, with the
founding of few
artifacts that are believed to be reminiscent of small bands of hunter - gatherers.
Those of us steeped in the vagaries of even the most rigorous art theory will be forgiven for
finding the dry precision of these categories somewhat refreshing: recorded information must have communicatory intent, otherwise it is likely a form of embedded information, which is any object or other durable result of action: «the spider makes its web, the bird builds a nest, the
human being makes tools, utensils, and other
artifacts.»
As a collector of African art, cabinet of curiosities and other
artifacts, Benes
found beauty and meaning in relics of
human life and culture, which was endemic to his art.
On
Human Relationships,» Sprengel Museum, Hannover Smith, Roberta, «
Finding Art in the
Artifacts of the Masses,» The New York Times Smith, Roberta, «Sampler 2,» The New York Times, January 26 The New Yorker, «Goings on About Town,» January 29, p. 20 Times, December 1, pp.
Re # 4, Hansen et al say «We
find evidence of local
human effects («urban warming») even in suburban and small - town surface air temperature records, but the effect is modest in magnitude and conceivably could be an
artifact of inhomogeneities in the station records.
If
humans were to suddenly disappear and some intelligent species 20 million years in the future were to be studying this geological layer, they would be able to identify a difference from other interglacials separate from any
human artifacts they might
find.