Sentences with phrase «human artifacts»

Aristotle gives the Greek words we translate «form» and «matter» (eidos or morphe and hule) technical senses which he explains by means of examples drawn from human artifacts: a brazen statue or sphere, a house, a bed.
All the specialists agreed that there were indisputable human artifacts in a primary depositional context mantled by a peat layer and without indication of materials deriving from later depositional horizons at the site (Adovasio and Pedler 1997:578).
A rhinoceros will soon be on view in Midtown Manhattan — a life - size aluminum rhinoceros, that is, from which a tire, a copier, a vacuum cleaner and other human artifacts sprout in all directions.
Hi, so... I'd like to point out to you that Archaeology is the study of human society, so it's a given that whatever they are studying involves human artifacts.
To celebrate the natural in such a way as to disparage human artifacts would be «going too far».
As evidence that humans are the principal source of emotionality among human artifacts, consider human visual signs.
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.
To date, the earliest known human artifacts west of the Rockies date back to about 13,000 years ago.
«This is interesting because in actual fact, the Neanderthal remains with cut marks are generally found in deposits full of Neanderthal artifacts and not with human artifacts,» Stewart said.
Abalone and mussel shells, bones from fish, birds, and pinnipeds, and human artifacts such as bone tools, shell beads, projectile points, and fish hooks all suggest extensive human activity on the island.
Upstairs, Amy Balkin's A People's Archive of Sinking and Melting (State: From the Majuro Declaration to COP19 Warsaw) preserves human artifacts from lands that may be lost to rising sea levels — Anvers Island, Venice, New Orleans, Tuvalu, and more — with an echo of Rauschenberg's melancholy «souvenirs without nostalgia.»
Drawing from a collection of over sixty previously worn wedding gowns, Defoor has explored the iconography of the white wedding dress as an emotionally ridden human artifact.
And retreating ice is constantly revealing human artifacts... which were laid down when it was as warm or warmer than it is now.
Skyscrapers, power transmission lines, vehicles and other existing human artifacts / activities are much more lethal to birds than are wind turbines — at least, since small turbines sited on migration routes have become a thing of the past.
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The world in which people in Australia today spend most of their time is not the world of nature, it is a world of human artifact.
In carefully calibrated detail, philosopher and writer Robert P. Crease tells the engrossing tale of the modern revolution to liberate measurement from human artifacts.
The irony of ID / creationists invoking analogy to human artifacts is that they ignore the clear lineage of modern technologies / methodologies having arisen through incremental trial and error from ever simpler precursors.
To make love is to enter the cosmological wilderness, to go beyond the human artifacts of city and civilisation, to return to the depths of darkness where spirit embraces matter and the Cosmic Christ (37) is realised as earthy and untamed.
The student most readily becomes aware that language is a human artifact and not a natural phenomenon through the study of a foreign language.
It expresses their attitudes much as a smile expresses happiness; it exhibits the attainment or the ruin of their desires in the same way as any human artifact.
the truth of biblical religion is pure and not the problem»... I envy yr faith... human artifacts, especially religious narratives are rarely as pure as you might suggest... at best, I think the scriptures shld be a means and not an end, so in that sense need not be pure... they are merely signposts along the way... ultimately, we are the judges of what is pure or impure, higher or lower, right or wrong
These human artifacts do not just tell us about our situation, they mediate it.
One projects onto the world of human artifacts one's sense of frustrated alienation, then imagines that an escape from this system is by means of a retreat into an unfallen paradise of «nature.»
This «black mat» had been noted earlier by archaeologists because mammoth fossils and human artifacts from the Native American Clovis culture appear in abundance below it but are absent from the layers above it.
Marean counters that those layers were part of a series of sand dunes that formed in a matter of days or weeks after the eruption and include human artifacts.
The model identified seven populations that closely match human migrations previously deduced from human artifacts, genes, and languages.
Vera says his experiment in rewilding has revealed succession as a human artifact: an unnatural, unbalanced outcome created when people killed off the woolly mammoth and corralled wild horses and cattle.
Bones and human artifacts, after examination by specialists, can tell us much about how life was lived in earlier times but footprints are full of wonder for us.
From the pool of cool diagrams, the students agreed on a model, discussing ideas and problems in design and art, such as how straight lines, ubiquitous in human artifacts, are less common in nature.
It is comprised with 28 interconnected buildings where more than 33 million specimens of fossils, rocks, human artifacts, animals and human remains are kept.
The exhibition venue - a museum dedicated to the understanding of the natural world and man's place in it — made it possible for viewers to enjoy works by Arthur Dove, Max Ernst, Arshile Gorky, Paul Klee and numerous others before investigating the permanent displays of fossils, animals, minerals, rocks, plants and human artifacts.
When I look at a snowless street in January I may see a natural weather variation, or I may see a human artifact caused by greenhouse gas emissions.
The combination of sea level rise and an apparent increase in severe weather is taking a toll on both natural features and human artifacts.
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.
Mart has published a draft of her research paper reporting these results, The Algorithm as a Human Artifact: Implications for Legal -LCB- Re -RCB- Search, and she presented some of her findings in a program I attended at the recent annual meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries.
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Susan Nevelow Mart: The Algorithm as a Human Artifact: Implications for the Duty of Competent Representation
It put me on to University of Colorado Law Library Director Susan Nevelow Mart's study, «The Algorithm as a Human Artifact: Implications for Legal -LCB- Re -RCB- Search.»
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