Sentences with phrase «of human artifact»

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.»

Orkneygal (3), David Benson (9); it is important to be clear that the examples of human artifacts covered by ice and now being revealed where typically dropped on snow (and ice covered slopes); and have been covered by ice ever since.

And present measurements can be better compared to past records (photographs, diaries, reports of expeditions, locations of human artifacts, distributions of sediments, and so on.)

Not exact matches

After that finding, North Dakota's chief archaeologist, Paul Picha, inspected the area and said no sign of artifacts or human remains had been found.

A holder of more than 600 U.S. patents and one of the world's most prolific living inventors shares his perspective on the history of innovation, with a special look at Chinese artifacts from his personally curated Library of the History of Human Imagination.

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 satisfy them natural objects are transformed into a complex environment of created artifacts bearing the impress of human mentality.

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.

Human beings and our artifacts are part of the environment of other organisms just as much as they are part of the environment for us.

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

But for me the greatest difference between Thomas Aquinas» Cosmological Argument and any and all arguments from design comes from what all the advocates of design admit: that the candidate for the Intelligent Designer could be, at least theoretically, just about any supra «human intelligent manipulator of complex artifacts, from outer «space aliens to Al Gore's Mama Gaia.

I present urban form to my students in the long and large western humanist tradition that sees cities as communal artifacts that human animals by our nature make in order to live well (with all the teleological and virtue ethics implications of that tradition's notion of living well).

Accordingly, Whitehead might have been completely correct in relation to psychogenesis if he considered the object perception of reality as the result of human practice, that is, of the understandable association with artifacts and particularly with machines.

Commenting on the NCC's first assembly meeting in Denver, Colorado, in late 1952, Charles Clayton Morrison, then a contributing editor, defended the council as an «artifact, which does not belong to the nature of the church,» but which nevertheless deserved support from denominations as a vehicle for moving away from the divisions within the church caused by «human contrivances» (January 7, 1953).

With that in mind, I have noticed that many, if not most new converts can have, in all appearances, a genuine spiritual experience before any high doctrine of «scriptural authority ever enters their head.Now, some may say that just how it works, first you crawl, then you walk... baby food, then the meat, but this is my point... the world is full of «spiritual meatheads»... there are so many believers who wdn't know an original thought, unless of course, they cd find the chapter and verse to unequivocally support it.Is it so difficult to comprehend how a collection of ancient documents may not be the final, complete and indisputable Word of God, but mere human artifacts, sometimes godly, sometimes not, sometimes helping, sometimes hindering.?

Besides the conditions of society itself, under which family and friends had primary responsibility for the care of the dying and the dead, memento mon were spread throughout culture: in the church's art, in morality plays like Everyman, in drinking songs, in the ordinary artifacts of everyday life (e.g., in Austria a towel hanger portraying a human form split down the middle: one half a beautiful young woman, the other a skeleton) To be sure, the specter of death (and judgment) has been used as a form of social control.

The first is between the given facts of nature and those artifacts made by man out of cultural, human, and bodily behavior.

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.

The gifts included luxury goods from across the empire, artifacts from earlier civilizations and the remains of thousands of humans and animals — many sacrificed atop the pyramid during lavish ceremonies.

Higham's team collected and radiocarbon - dated about 20 samples of artifacts and animal bones with cut marks, which presumably were discarded by ancient humans.

Blombos Cave, South Africa: Dated to about 100,000 years ago, ochre - processing «tool kits» and other artifacts found at the site — including an engraved piece of ochre, the oldest known art of its type — suggest early humans were capable of modern, complex behaviors much earlier than once thought.

The studies also strengthen the case that all of the indigenous people living in the Americas descended from the continents» first inhabitants, which could resolve a legal limbo for some archaeological artifacts and human remains.

But archeologist Alexander Marshack of Harvard's Peabody Museum says it's most likely the artist was a more modern human, since known Neanderthal artifacts to date, aside from tools, have been limited to things like beads and worked ivory.

Clear evidence of prehistoric conflict can be difficult to discern in other parts of the world, but the arid climate and sparse settlement in the Southwest have left pueblo ruins, cultural artifacts, and even human remains remarkably intact.

You have to remind yourself that the body and brain of this artifact will not be a human being.

Archaeologists unearthed three distinct layers of artifacts at Madjedbebe, Australia's oldest known site of human habitation, during digs in 2012 and 2015.

These artifacts may be the earliest evidence of a human theory of mind, the recognition that every individual has unique intentions, beliefs and desires.

Along with radiocarbon dating on charcoal remains from human - made fires, these analyses yielded a much more precise estimate for the age of sediments surrounding artifacts at various depths.

A collection of thousands of stone artifacts supports the theory that established human groups were spreading across North America long before Clovis technology emerged

In addition to hundreds of carvings of human faces approximately 3,000 to 7,000 years old, Lima also discovered pottery artifacts suggesting a network of connected villages covering the central Amazon.

Elements like uranium 238, which has a half - life of 4.5 billion years, let geologists determine the age of rocks and meteorites; those that decay over thousands of years, like carbon - 14, help date archaeological artifacts and human remains.

Never before has the history of an extinct human been told by its genome, rather than its fossils and artifacts.

They were representations of the Mother Goddess, Mellaart said, artifacts of the earliest human religion.

«Most of the archaeological evidence for movement is based on artifacts, but artifacts can be stolen or copied, so they are not a real good proxy for actual human movement,» says archaeologist Doug Price of the University of Wisconsin in Madison, who tracks ancient migration by analyzing isotopes.

A big interactive map traces the emergence of modern humans in Africa more than 150,000 years ago and how they spread worldwide — travels that have been tracked by studying fossils, artifacts, and the DNA of humans from all over the globe.

Leroi - Gourhan attributed the artifacts in the lowest levels to Neandertals and artifacts from higher levels to modern humans, based largely on the types of tools they made.

The team concludes that the archaeological levels must have become mixed over thousands of years and that younger artifacts made by modern humans may have moved down into levels long thought to be associated with Neandertals.

Unearthed between 1949 and 1963, the controversial artifacts were made during a transitional time, when modern humans were sweeping across Europe and the Neandertals who had lived there for hundreds of thousands of years were dying out.

«The human remains and mortuary artifacts from Petra provide perspectives not only on Nabataean concepts of death, but also their biological histories while alive,» Perry said.

The Penn Museum has a large collection of artifacts from Ur, because in 1922, British archaeologist Leonard Woolley led a famous series of excavations there, a joint operation between the British Museum and Penn, bringing back precious stones and pottery, and uncovering an ancient human sacrifice.

Ultimately the true nature of the site became clear, and the rich array of recovered artifacts and human remains testified to its importance.

Recent finds from a site in Russia about 250 miles south of Moscow suggest that the first humans in Europe were Eastern European.The discoveries include bone and carved ivory artifacts.

«Some of the artifacts found right under the ash were almost certainly made by modern humans,» says John Hoffecker, a University of Colorado archaeologist working at the site.

3.3 - million - year - old artifacts from Kenya upend the classic story of when and how humans became innovators

«In other words, we wanted to make sure these signatures were meaningful in real, human tumors and not just an artifact of being grown in a dish,» says James Costello, PhD, investigator at the CU Cancer Center and assistant professor in the CU School of Medicine Department of Pharmacology.

Hundreds of thousands of artifacts, including intricate and elaborate hand - woven baskets excavated between 2007 and 2013 in Huaca Prieta, reveal that early humans in that region were a lot more advanced than originally thought and had very complex social networks.

In light of the above, then, we are led to the conclusion that the artifact of music should contain some distinctly human elements.

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.

As evidence that humans are the principal source of emotionality among human artifacts, consider human visual signs.

The artifacts push the history of modern human behavior in southern Africa back more than 20,000 years, archaeologists report online July 30 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, forging a link between the cultures of ancient and present - day humans.