Sentences with phrase «human skulls at»

There are spin paintings with and without human skulls at their centre, and spot paintings that move between the vibrant and the purely ambient.

The Osun State Police command has arrested a herbalist identified as Adeniyi Adeyeye with a human skull at Moro in Ife North Local Government Area of the state.

A native doctor, identified as Adeniyi Adeyeye has been caught with a human skull at Moro, Ife North Local Government Area of Ondo State.

Not exact matches

Mar. 18, 2013 — Buried for 100,000 years at Xujiayao in the Nihewan Basin of northern China, the recovered skull pieces of an early human exhibit a now - rare congenital deformation that indicates inbreeding might well have been common among our ancestors, new research from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Washington University in St. Louis suggests

Adeoye explained that in a similar case, on the same date at about 11:30 am, at Oba's compound in Moro, Ipetumodu, one Adeniyi Adeyeye was also arrested when a human skull was found in his possession.

«The troops recovered quite a number of items at both the camp and the shrines which include; 10 human skulls, various human bones, 2 AK - 47 Rifles, 1 General Purpose Machine Gun (GPMG), 18 AK - 47 Rifle Magazines, 4 pairs of military camouflage, 5 camouflage T - Shirts, and 3 Fabrique Nationale (FN) Rifle Rifle magazines.

Humans have been performing brain surgery — or at least drilling holes in one anothers» skulls — for thousands of years.

Over seven months, a team at the Louisiana Department of Justice in Baton Rouge tracked human skulls being advertised on the site and found that 237 people listed 454 skulls, with opening bids ranging from one cent to $ 5500.

Staffers at the Louisiana Department of Justice in Baton Rouge tracked the sale of human skulls on eBay for seven months.

Because the spinal cord entered the skull at the bottom rather than at the back, as it does for chimps, Dart believed the individual had walked upright — until then, considered an exclusively human trait.

«The geological similarities between the sediments at the place where the skull was found and sediments laid down during the 1998 tsunami that hit this same coastline have made us realise that human populations in this area have been affected by these massive inundations for thousands of years.»

Morton's aim in measuring skulls from a diverse range of human groups was not to get at intelligence differences, as is sometimes claimed.

«With the skulls we found,» co-author Ignacio Martínez, Professor of Paleontology at the University of Alcalá, added, «it was possible to characterize the cranial morphology of a human population of the European Middle Pleistocene for the first time.»

Rummaging through a collection of replicas of fossilized primate bones in a nearby lab, Bramble pointed out that the nuchal ligament leaves a trace — a delicate ridge — where it attaches at the base of the human skull.

Juan Luis Arsuaga Ferreras at the UCM - ISCIII Joint Centre for Research into Human Evolution and Behaviour in Madrid, Spain, and his team studied 17 of the skulls (see photo).

RITUAL CUT An almost 6,000 - year - old human skull from southern Russia contains a large opening at the back of the head created by cutting away bone with a sharp instrument.

The skull was the fifth unearthed at a fossil - rich prehistoric watering hole in Dmanisi, Georgia; together, the specimens provide a vivid picture of the population of human ancestors at that location and place in time — and the variation within it.

A nearly complete skull of a mysterious member of the human family was unveiled this week at the same time as researchers reported a surprisingly recent age for this ancient cave dweller in South Africa.

More precise dating of the hundreds of often co-mingled human remains at the site could also indicate the relationship between, for example, a body and the plastered skull cradled in its arms at the time of burial: Were they parent and child, or was the skull a venerated ancestor, many generations removed?

Look at a primate or a Neanderthal skull and compare it with a modern human's.

A 13 million - year - old skull from Kenya, described in August in Nature, hints at what a common ancestor of all living apes (including humans) looked like.

The black cables emerging from the white turban wrapped around his skull hint at his role in investigating a truly profound question: How do thoughts form in the human brain?

A new mathematical analysis tool developed by researchers from the Theoretical Biology Group at the Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology of the University of Valencia has allowed a deeper understanding of the anatomy of the human head thanks to describing the skull as an extended network structured in ten modules.

Brown knew he was looking at something strange, something that would challenge our ideas about human evolution, as soon as he laid eyes on that first skull from Liang Bua Cave.

The skull will be publicly exhibited at the human evolution section of Museu Nacional de Arqueologia in Lisbon, Portugal in October this year.

Modern human skull (left) and Neanderthal skull (right) at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, 2008.

A human skull fragment recently unearthed at Manot Cave in Israel provides strong evidence that both anatomically modern Homo sapiens and Neanderthals...

Hrdlicka states that the smallest skull in this collection, at 910 cc, appears to be the lowest volume ever measured for a normal human cranium.

So saying, as he did in the first edition of his book (p. 162), that the habiline skull ER 1470, at 750 - 775 cm3, is «well within the normal human range» is a wild exaggeration.

Modern human basal length grows at 0.052 mm / yr after the late - juvenile stage; so using Cuozzo's logic the two adult orangutans must have been 596 and 788 years old, respectively (plus the 7 years to reach the age of the juvenile skull).

The prominent sagittal crest running along the midline at the top of the skull is the largest ever discovered in the human lineage.

One reason for going there had been a human skull which a mining engineer had found at Wadjak in 1888.

Puppies — especially small or teacup dogs — like humans have soft spots in their skulls at birth.

We pause at a human skull, crystallized by a buildup of calcium carbonate left behind by hundreds of years of standing water.

Opening the front flap reveals actual graphics from the game, specifically a pixelated peek at the trophy case aboard the Predator ship, which in addition to several human skull - and - spine sets houses the skull of the Yautja's second favorite prey — a Xenomorph warrior.

His installation Mass contains 100 human skulls which are scattered and stacked throughout a gallery at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia.

Other works featured in LIVESupport include «Church State,» a two - part sculpture comprised of ink - covered church pews mounted on wheels; «Ambulascope,» a downward facing telescope supported by a seven - foot tower of walking canes, which are marked with ink and adorned with Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs) of the spinal column; «Riot Gates,» a series of large - scale X-Ray images of the human skull mounted on security gates and surrounded by a border of ink - covered shoe tips, objects often used by the artist as tenuous representation of the body; «Role Play Drawings» a series of found black and white cards from the 1960s used for teaching young children, which Ward has altered using ink to mark out the key elements and reshape the narrative, which leaves the viewer to interpret the remaining psychological tension; and «Father and Sons,» a video filmed at Reverend Al Sharpton's National Action Network House of Justice, which comments on the anxiety and complex dialogue that African - American police officers are often faced with when dealing with young African - American teenagers.

A platinum cast of a human skull set with 8,601 VVS to flawless pavé - set diamonds diamonds, the sculpture has previously been exhibited at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (2008) and Tate Modern, London (2012) amongst others, but has never before been shown in Scandinavia.

The book title, named after the artwork «For Heaven's Sake» (2008), includes full - color plates of the skull, including fabrication shots and installation shots at the Hong Kong exhibition where this life - size human baby skull cast in platinum and covered in 8,128 pavé - set perfect diamonds: 7,105 natural fancy pink diamonds and 1,023 white diamonds on the fontanel was shown for the first time.

Although I'm no stranger to Michael E. Smith's work, the possibility that I am actually looking at «chips» fashioned out of human skull and conjoined with defunct and mutilated lap tops terrifies me as much as it makes me laugh.»