Sentences with phrase «human skulls on»

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

It is recorded that in Persia he left a pyramid of seventy thousand human skulls on the ruins of Isfahan and another ninety thousand on the ruins of Baghdad.

Not exact matches

A 72 - year - old Septuagenarian, Idris Ajao, and one Tajudeen Akonife, 48, were on Tuesday arraigned before an Osogbo Chief Magistrates» Court for alleged possession of human skull...

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 Police in Kwara State on Thursday arrested and paraded a suspected ritualist with seven human skulls, in addition to other criminal suspects arrested for armed robbery, cultism and car snatching.

«On searching the sack with the arrested suspect, it was discovered that it contained a human skull.»

While there's a US law banning the sale of Native American remains, there is no other federal regulation on the sale of human skulls online, meaning that it's up to states to keep watch.

Humans may be the most dangerous game, but they're hardly the most nutritious (despite evidence of cannibalism, like these skulls found on an island in Fiji, above).

A US law bans the sale of Native American remains, but there is no other federal restriction on the sale of human skulls online.

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.

«According to our analysis of the skull, which bears a complex mix of archaic and modern characteristics, this was probably the only place on earth where Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans lived side by side for a long period of time.»

Instead the skull indicates that modern humans met and interbred with Neanderthals in Israel, only to later pass on their genes to the rest of the world.

Research into lethal wounds found on a human skull may indicate one of the first cases of murder in human history — some 430,000 years ago — and offers evidence of the earliest funerary practices in the archaeological record.

It is interesting that the most similar skulls in our sample come from recent Africans on the one hand, and on the other hand from those modern humans that lived in Europe between 20 - 30,000 years ago as, for instance,... [in one location] in the Czech Republic.»

In 2005 a virtual brain of the one known skull of Homo floresiensis — the three - foot - tall hominid discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores — provided evidence in the ongoing debate about whether the creature represents a separate species or was a human pygmy with a birth defect.

Lucy had a smaller skull than later humanlike species, but her other bones showed that she walked upright, helping researchers reconstruct how humans began walking on two legs.

The method was previously used on human organs as an anatomy study aid for medical students, and has since been adopted to digitally archive artifacts such as ancient pottery and prehistoric skulls so that students and researchers can interact with otherwise rarely handled specimens from museum collections.

Evidence of skull surgery on humans, whether for medical or ritual reasons, goes back about 11,000 years (SN: 5/28/16, p. 12).

His notion was that human abilities are localised and, when highly developed, could be felt as «bumps» on the skull caused by locally increased brain size.

The remnants of a remarkably petite skull belonging to one of the first human ancestors to walk on two legs have revealed the great physical diversity among these prehistoric populations.

Two grooves identified on an endocast from a partial H. naledi skull frame the language - related section of Broca's area in humans today, Hurst said.

So with techniques normally used for studying prehistoric humans, researchers created a 3D image of Descartes's brain (above) by scanning the impression it left on the inside of his skull, which has been kept for almost 200 years now in the National Museum of Natural History in Paris.

The findings also lend support to claims that the small brain of the human ancestor Homo floresiensis, whose 18,000 - year - old skull was discovered on a remote Indonesian island in 2003, isn't as remarkable as it might seem.

Bronte, like so many other 19th century intellectuals, was fascinated by phrenology, which explained human personality traits by charting the bumps on the skull.

However, implanting electrodes through holes in the skull poses a risk of infection and brain damage, so testing on healthy humans is not allowed.

There, the energetic 36 - year - old anthropologist unlocks a glass case and begins arranging human skulls and other skeletal artifacts — some genuine fossils, others high - quality reproductions — on a counter according to their age.

Using CT scans of ancient and modern human skulls, the researchers created digital brain reconstructions, based on the shape of the inner surface of each skull's braincase.

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.

A Tel Aviv University researcher was part of the team that released findings Thursday showing that the human evolutionary tree has fewer branches than originally thought, based on a 1.8 - million - year - old skull found buried under a medieval Georgian village.

The skull of a female found on the Flores island is less than one - third the size of the skull of modern humans.

A re-analysis of a 5,000 - year - old cow's skull suggests humans were performing cranial surgery on animals as well — but why would they even bother?

One area Ross's lab focuses on is what we can learn from the human skull.

View the table on the skull comparison page, which demonstrates that creationists actually find it not «easy», but horribly difficult to classify fossils as ape or human.

- «Pithecanthropus [Java man] was not a man, but a gigantic genus allied to the Gibbons...» Eugene Dubois, «On the Fossil Human Skulls Recently Discovered in Java and Pithecanthropus Erectus,» Man, Vol.

Why do they say that the smaller Dmanisi skulls belong to H. erectus and are human, if the man they recognize as the creationist expert on human evolution thinks they are apes?

Gould reexamined Morton's data on cranial capacity variation in modern human populations and concluded that Morton had selectively reported data (see Box 1), manipulated sample compositions (see Box 2), made analytical errors, and mismeasured skulls in order to support his a priori views on intelligence differences between human groups.

Even if you do not take medication or have a serious health problem, you may want to consult with a knowledgeable clinician, especially during the first month or two, to help you troubleshoot any issues that may arise, but ultimately the ketogenic diet is a safe and healthy diet for the vast majority of human beings — certainly much safer and healthier than the standard American diet, which should come in a package with a skull and crossbones on it A properly - formulated ketogenic diet contains everything the brain and body require to function well.

None are more dependent on human intervention than breeds of extreme skull shapes and size.

In addition to skulls and bones, you also can see several tombs centuries old, as well as long human hairs, ceramic fragments and others remains scattered on the desert surface.

Subtle sounds such as metal dragging on metal, once - human - turned - zombie - like cyborgs can be heard bashing their heads into the walls, sending a resonating pound of metal upon skull throughout the world about them.

To set the mood we hired an electric chair, which was positioned immediately in the entrance, placed spiders with human skulls around the venue, used spider webs to help divide up the booths had eyeball cocktails and blood energy drink refreshments on offer.

There are tons of new characters and concepts, like the legions of human NPCs, the weird skull people NPCs based on the Mexican Day of the Dead festival, a large dog Mario can ride like a Yoshi and numerous new species of enemies.

This time, The Gamesmen talk about Google's VR headset, Bethesda mods on PS4, Digital Homicide hurting after filing lawsuit the new to Origin Access, a human skull to creating the sounds of Inside, Facebook's dealings with revenge pornography, the space needed for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, and -LSB-...]

This time, The Gamesmen talk about Google's VR headset, Bethesda mods on PS4, Digital Homicide hurting after filing lawsuit the new to Origin Access, a human skull to creating the sounds of Inside, Facebook's dealings with revenge pornography, the space needed for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, and if Final Fantasy 15 was ported to PC.

To accompany the retrospective, «For the Love of God» (2007)-- a platinum cast of a human skull set with 8,601 flawless pavé - set diamonds — is on exhibition in the Tate Modern's monumental turbine hall.

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.

You can view more documentation from the inaugural exhibition, including this massive installation of hyperrealistic human skulls by Ron Mueck, on the National Gallery of Victoria's website.

The works consist of an installation of many small paintings of skulls taken from the human fossil record painted on wadded pages of art magazines.

These days, she's exploring candid photography while working on a series of decorated human and animal skulls, a juxtaposition of morbid subjects and flashy colors inspired by Dia de los Muertos festivals and vintage tattoo art.

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.