Sentences with phrase «made by ancestors»

Paintings and engravings made by ancestors of the San peoples encode the history and culture of a society thousands of years old
Perhaps most remarkable about Kanzi's tools is their resemblance to those made by our ancestors.
«We have to protect and honor the treaties that were made by our ancestors, and that's what we're going to do.

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Brinton says some contemporary Americans are making the same mistake their Civil War ancestors did by twisting the Bible to support their own battle cries.
For a while any apparent inconsistencies in divine justice could be explained by making reference to miscreant ancestors.
Peter Williamson, without perhaps meaning to do so, puts his finger on my central question, one that can not be solved for Catholic Christians solely by historical research: What does it mean for Messianic Jews, Jewish Christians, «to be faithful to the covenant that God made with their ancestors»?
He's not mean, He is just and gives people what they want And no, he is all powerful, if He could do it, then he wouldn't be all powerful And again no, he made Adam and Eve (sustained them too) and all our other ancestors thus, no, God gave you life And no, He is constant and reliable and is continually backed up by history and science And no, you're not paying for them, Jesus Christ died and paid for your sins and mine.
The promise of the soul and the afterlife is designed to make us not fear the end by viewing it as a new beginning, which it is, in a way, as we rejoin our ancestors in the carbon from whence we came.
Though «human evolution» is a theory, considering the fossils and evidence of proto - human beings, it is far more likely that we evolved from a lesser developed ancestor than it is that we were made out of dirt by a supernatural deity.
In the play Angels in America, Prior, a character living with AIDS, describes the arrival of his ancestor, a ship captain who made his living by bringing whale oil to the Old World and immigrants to the New World.
And yet it is the sum of all those existences placed side by side, starting with that ancestor in the caves, that has made the history of humanity.
Heck, even his ancestor King David danced in the streets with his gonads exposed, and when his wife scolded him for doing so * she * was reprimanded by God by being made infertile.
And Paleoindians, ancestors of living First Americans, rather handily made the native horses, elephants, and several species of bison extinct by driving them en masse over cliffs and into bogs where many were killed but few provided meat.
An argument could be made that the old puritan was too generous, thinking that God had killed his son for a thought crime rather than for a crime committed by ancestors who lived millennia ago.
The Sayut is made by three generations of women living together, and invokes the female ancestors.
They are extremely old — 5.7 million years — yet they seem to have been made by one of our hominin ancestors.
Archaeologists working on the eastern coast of England have found a series of footprints that were made by human ancestors sometime between one million and 780,000 years ago.
«Researchers have known for decades about carnivorous behaviours by tool - making hominins dating back 2.5 million years, but now, for the first time, we have direct evidence of exploitation by our Stone Age ancestors of specific animals for subsistence,» says Nowell.
It is possible they were made by the hobbit's ancestors, or by a different species of hominin that also crossed the Wallace line.
«If the specific behavior of nut cracking with stone tools is posited for our last common ancestor, then one would expect a series of stone - tool sites that resemble those made by chimpanzees to be found in sediments dating to between 2.6 million and 5 million years ago,» Ambrose says.
Steven Spielberg's dinosaurs in Jurassic Park may look authentic, but the sounds they make would not have been uttered by their long - dead ancestors, says a Japanese researcher.
Chimpanzees spend 6 hours a day gnashing fruits and the occasional monkey carcass — all made possible by the same type of big teeth and large jaws our early ancestors had.
But Parisians would be shocked by the wine their ancestors started out making around 500 BC: it was an Italian white.
They determined it was around 180,000 years ago when the two parental species originally mated, and that both parental species diverged from a common ancestor about 300,000 years ago, making all three very recent birds by Amazon rainforest standards.
In response to Pender, we have postulated that the mutation that led to the loss of our ability to make vitamin C may have conferred a survival advantage on our ancestors by, again, increasing our ability to store fat.
We've seen evolution via real - time observations and ordered series of fossils; evolution could be falsified by finding fossils out of place, such as that of a rabbit in 400 million - year - old sediments; and evolution certainly makes predictions (Darwin predicted, correctly, that human ancestors evolved in Africa).
Not by Babylonian standards Archaeology's Top Ten Discoveries of 2010 «New» Old Human Ancestors: Siberia's Denisovians Macchu Pichu Artifacts Being Returned by Yale World's Oldest Champagne Tastes Sweet After 200 - Year Shipwreck Did Cavemen Make Bread?
They confirmed the lack of shielding by looking at the DNA photoproducts molecules that resulted from UV exposure in both the UV - evolved and ancestor cells to make sure they were the same.
And once that ancestor arrived, it was likely isolated by open seas — which is the same dynamic that's made this area of the Pacific a biodiversity hotspot.
However, the basic premise is to make sure to stop eating foods which are claimed to have not been eaten by our Paleolithic ancestors.
In addition to the absence of baker's yeast to make the bread rise, true sourdough bread as baked by traditional cultures throughout the world and by my own ancestors in Northern Europe — the type of bread ideal for my personal genome — is baked at a lower temperature for a longer period of time which protects the integrity of the proteins in the cereal grains as well as the nutritional value.
In general, Pati has found that the nutrient - dense traditional diets followed by our ancestors make the most sense and offer resolution for most chronic illness today.
A little at time and one by one, we've made a lot of changes to our food which all adds up to living and eating as natural and as close to how our ancestors ate as much as we can.
Because of its abundance as a mineral all over the world and it's beautiful bright quality, kaolin is thought to have been used as one of the first clays used to make pottery by our ancestors.
Much of the plot hinges on a particularly bad decision made years earlier by the hero's father, who felt he was doing the right thing, but instead set in motion a series of events that end up threatening not just his legacy, but the entirety of his kingdom and all that his ancestors worked to build and maintain.
uuu Made in the IMAX 3D process, this nostalgic little drama centers on an immigrant boy who wanders the streets of New York City looking for a long - lost relative's home, guided by old photos and the words of an ancestor who made a similar voyage many years earlMade in the IMAX 3D process, this nostalgic little drama centers on an immigrant boy who wanders the streets of New York City looking for a long - lost relative's home, guided by old photos and the words of an ancestor who made a similar voyage many years earlmade a similar voyage many years earlier.
A young girl learns from her grandmother how to make sweet - grass Gullah baskets, a craft brought to America by the child's West African ancestors.
Remember the Ladies from a letter Abigail Adams wrote to her husband, John Adams, dated March 31, 1776 «I long to hear that you have declared an independency - and by the way in the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
The port was accomplished with the Galaxy Nexus project in conjunction with LibHybris, created by Carsten Munk (an engineer at Jolla, though he also leads Merproject, which grew out of Sailfish ancestors Maemo and Meego), a library that allows for «bionic - based [Android] hardware adaptations in glibc systems», in essence making it easier to translate between the designed - for - Android hardware and Linux - based software like the Open webOS operating system.
Bangtao is a study in contrasts, with the luxurious resorts and villas along its six km (four mile) stretch of beach just a few minutes» away from the town of Cherng Talay, where many villagers still make their living as their ancestors did - by fishing, farming and rubber tapping.
This time, The Gamesmen talk about Hillary Clinton and a Game Boy, Valve limiting Steam accounts that don't spend money, Steam charging for mods, the console Elder Scrolls Online beta, the Kerbal Space Program 1.0 release, Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey, the Xbox One Gears of War remaster, Nintendo being surprised by the popularity of Amiibo, the NSA made a coloring book, and Silent Hills is no longer happening.
In doing so it rejected the claims made by a group of her descendants that the foundation was required by their ancestor's will to limit art displayed at her former home only to what was included in her private collection.
We will encounter the Visconti «maquétothèque» of the Monte - Carlo Opera, Eugène Frey's fabulous luminous decors, the Marquis du Périer de Mouriez's strange collection of transparent paintings, plus the religious boxes from the Galéa Collection made by the Provencal Carmelites and a thousand other from the reserve collection that evoke the cabinets of curiosities of the 17th and 18th centuries, the ancestors of European museums.
Made from knotted rope, Carrier references a large - scale sweater reminiscent of the type worn by the artist's Maritime ancestors.
Refracting those Surrealist ancestors through African art, American pop and folk art, Puryear makes things whose arbitrary form persuades us by scrupulous craft that they have meaning in themselves, even if we can not find words to decode it.
They decided to build a voyaging canoe like the ones their ancestors would have sailed, except that 600 years had gone by since the last of these boats was seen, which made it no small task.
You honour our ancestors and by doing so, you make us proud!!
It simply says that this is a decision that titleholders themselves should make bearing in mind the authority by which their entitlement to the land is derived, the traditional laws and customs of their ancestors.
Capacities and skills that could be utilised in native title agreements differ between traditional owner groups, but may include: the ability to use and manage their natural environment sustainably, cohesive cultural and social relationships, a traditional decision making structure, a unique relationship to the land of their ancestors, and values that are shared by the members of the group.
MRSA is an example of evolution by natural selection — what didn't kill its ancestors made them stronger, spawning a drug - resistant strain.
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