Sentences with phrase «millennium before»

If your employees and agents are still wondering what a tweet is, it's time we help them join the new millennium before they really become irrelevant.

Such studies are behind the famous «hockey stick» graph, created by Michael Mann of Pennsylvania State University in University Park, which shows stable temperatures for a millennium before the 20th century.

Those raw brown gestures from the cave of Lascaux, the light blue that all but belongs to Fra Angelico half a millennium before Yves Klein thought to trademark one, the red cloak that gives Caravaggio's John the Baptist command of the future even as his eyes sink, the mere white of Jan Vermeer's pearl and fur, J. A. D. Ingres's yellow - gold that refuses the softness of satin, Mark Rothko's darkness that owes little more to reality but despair — the procession itself is arbitrary.

The game will be set a millennium before the events of the previous game in the series, -LSB-...]

Taking place almost a millennium before the events of Skyrim, the main narrative of ESO consists of your character setting out to end the vile machinations of the Daedric Prince Molag Bal as well as to seize control of the imperial throne, which has been vied over by three different factions since the land's former leader vacated it.

The villagers preferred the familiar smell out of the east, an aromatic reminder of horses that had endured ever since the armies of their ancestors arrived a millennium before, bearing nothing but weapons - no art, no skills that weren't martial and only a single maniacal idea: that battle, not building; destruction, not creation, was man's fate and final legacy.

The earliest written record of salt production in China dates to around 800 b.c. and tells of production and trade of sea salt a millennium before, during the Xia dynasty.

Tomato played a major role in Aztec culture as a source of vital nutrients for a millennium before it was discovered by explorers.

In a paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the team describes food storage structures dating back 11,000 years, a millennium before humans were thought to have domesticated crops.

Yu's story was handed down for a millennium before entering the historical record, yet, geological evidence for the flood he mastered has always been lacking.

Many still don Celtic attire, even though a civilization known as the Beaker People finished Stonehenge a millennium before the Celts turned up.

Its discovery in the Hispano community confirmed events of half a millennium before in Spain that are echoing still.

Egyptologists previously dated mummification's beginnings to the Old Kingdom period, about 2500 B.C.. However, after conducting the first successful chemical analysis of linen used in Neolithic burials, researchers announced in August they had discovered that people living in what is now Egypt were mummifying their dead much earlier — as far back as 4300 B.C., more than a millennium before the establishment of the Egyptian state.

In addition to being the method of transporting babies for many millennium before strollers, baby wearing advocates cite numerous potential benefits including:

A similar unconscious instinct led the greatest of these historians, the author of the account of David's reign, to a critical selection and sifting of his sources that created, half a millennium before Herodotus, a scientific history on a level with the best standards later set forth by the Greeks.

In one form or another it is part of the teaching of all the religions that developed in what Karl Jaspers taught us to call the axial age, the middle of the first millennium before Christ.

Although a number of features of Jaspers» presentation are highly dubious, significantly similar developments in human existence did occur in the first millennium before Christ independently in China, India, Persia, Palestine, and Greece.

Prior to the rise of the great civilizations of antiquity, from the fourth millennium before Christ on, rationality played a minor role in human life.

In the middle part of the millennium before Christ a new type of thinking arose, reflecting a new type of existence, called by Karl Jaspers, «axial period,» and what distinguished axial man was the new role of rationality in the structure of his existence.

A number of observers have noted that in the middle part of the millennium before Christ a new type of thinking arose, reflecting a new type of existence.

Despite all this, Jaspers is correct in seeing the developments of the first millennium before Christ as of utmost importance for human existence.

The effective success of this effort, transforming the whole of existence, is to be found in the first millennium before Christ and is the defining mark of axial man.

Gravity had been pulling fruit to the ground for millennia before Newton offered a theory, water was H2O long before anyone knew it, and until fairly recently genes were doing their genetic thing in secret.

The small size of the fruits were perfect for dissemination by birds, and the wild chiles spread all over South and Central America and up to what is now the United States border millennia before the domesticated varieties arrived.

Like they have done for millennia before the WHO guidelines.

It might be millennia before we can even think about harnessing power on this scale.

Around 3 million years ago, when temperatures were just 1 to 2 °C higher than the average of the past couple of millennia before humans began warming the climate, sea level was at least 25 metres higher than present.

Before the Black Death (Eurasia 3,000 - 5,000 years ago) In 2015, geneticists discovered aDNA from plague - causing Yersina pestis bacteria in the teeth of Bronze Age Eurasians, revealing that less - contagious strains infected people millennia before historically documented pandemics.

That puts modern humans far from home tens of millennia before the now - outdated human evolution and migration timeline had us even leaving Africa.

This supports the theory first advanced several years ago that the arrival of early modern humans in Europe may have stimulated the Neanderthals into copying aspects of their symbolic behaviour in the millennia before they disappeared.

In addition to illuminating medieval Jewish history, our results further pave the way to better understanding European origins, millennia before.

Its modern distribution suggests that Japanese sailors were the first people to reach the Americas, millennia before Siberians wandered across the Bering Strait.

The Lost World of Old Europe: The Danube Valley, 5000 — 3500 B.C. Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU, New York City Millennia before the great pyramids of Giza were built, elaborately painted female figurines and costumes gleaming with copper and gold were being created by the artisans of Old Europe, who thrived around 4500 B.C..

Presumably, they hadswarmed for millennia before that.

IN THE millennia before street lights and smartphones, humans could, on rare occasions, walk around on a moonless night and see clearly.

That influx of warm water then halted for several millennia before beginning again around 1940.

It floated through interstellar space for millennia before joining a cloud of gas and dust dense enough to collapse into a new star, also destined to go supernova.

Maine's coastal ecosystems once supported prodigious abundances of wildlife that benefitted human communities for millennia before succumbing to multiple stresses during the industrial era.

Humans have lived for millennia before the modern diabesity epidemic.

However, pelvic floor muscle training was known millenniums before Dr. Kegel.

Those who feed BARF point out that kibbled foods have been around for about 60 years but that dogs ate handouts from human tables for millennia before processed foods were marketed.

Changing the role and status of cats in relation to humans, a development which has occurred in the U.S. only within the lives of the World War II and Baby Boom generations, and has barely begun in most of the rest of the world, is not to be confused with changing the natural role of cats as it evolved over many millennia before humans existed.

Archeologists believe that humans may have inhabited the Channel Islands for up to 13,000 years, millennia before Europeans set foot on their shores in the 16th century.

«The artists selected for Unsettled foretell the world's future while simultaneously looking back to honor indigenous ancestors who created cultures and made places here millennia before it was declared «unsettled.»

Genesis is a quest for the world as it was, as it was formed, as it evolved, as it existed for millennia before modern life accelerated and began distancing us from the very essence of our being.

It's great to see this old trick used for millennia before the advent of refrigerants and appliances, but which also intentionally transforms the wasted energy produced by our modern predilection for convenience.

Looking at evidence from past climate swings and greenhouse - gas concentrations, he concludes that a sustained concentration of carbon dioxide at double the 280 parts per million that prevailed for hundreds of millenniums before the industrial revolution would — after a host of slowly - responding feedbacks kicked in to amplify the temperature rise — result in an enormous warming of some 11 degrees Fahrenheit (6 degrees Celsius).

In addition, a growing set of palaeoclimatic data, e.g., from trees, corals, sediments, and ice, are giving information about the Earth's climate of centuries and millennia before the present.

History is conveniently glossed over: people wrote and thought and painted and created for millennia before copyright laws came on the scene.

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They created or enabled the Permissive Society that shattered millennia - old values leading to the decline of marriage, a level of narcotics - abuse never seen before in a developed country, an epidemic of sexually - transmitted diseases and the industrial - scale production of bastard children.