Sentences with phrase «of old artifacts»

«When we had the volcanic ash identified, we were stunned, because that would make this stone tool one of the oldest artifacts in North America,» Patrick O'Grady, with the University of Oregon Archaeological Field School, who led the excavations at the Rimrock Draw Rockshelter, where the tool was found, said in a statement.

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The artifacts are some of the oldest found in North America.

Housed in a former Bethlehem Steel facility that is more than 100 years old, the National Museum of Industrial History is a shrine to America's industrial history, displaying industrial artifacts from a variety of industries.

That's an artifact of an old way of thinking about social media: Flood your page with posts and hope one or two stick.

CT's coverage of terrorism against Christians includes the viral video of a 10 - year - old Iraqi girl forgiving ISIS, how modern - day «Monuments Men» are trying to save Biblical - era artifacts from ISIS, and the death of the first American volunteer to die fighting terrorism in Iraq and Syria.

And just as families select artifacts that suggest past happiness in order to soften the blows inflicted by actions of family members in less happy times, congregational histories can create illusions: authors might relate in two sentences the experience of an unhappy pastorate that led to two decades of misery — and distort the whole story by dwelling on the beauty of the old sanctuary, hence suggesting general happiness.

The use of supernaturalism to manipulate and control people is the world's oldest confidence scheme, it relies on the ritual abuse of children at their most impressionable stage by adults who have themselves been made childish for life by artifacts of the primitive mind.

She writes: «Any museum curator worth his weight in Roman coins would choke at the thought of throwing away a 400 - year - old artifact.

Any museum curator worth his weight in Roman coins would choke at the thought of throwing away a 400 - year - old artifact.

1812 Marines from the U.S.S. Constitution to appear War of 1812 artifacts on display Free admissin for active military members and their families STURBRIDGE, MA (May 25, 2012)-- Old Sturbridge Village will highlight the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812 with an old - fashioned «Muster Day» on Saturday JuneOld Sturbridge Village will highlight the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812 with an old - fashioned «Muster Day» on Saturday Juneold - fashioned «Muster Day» on Saturday June 9.

Old Sturbridge Village's collection consists of more than 50,000 artifacts made or used by rural New Englanders between 1790 and 1840.

George Lois, an 84 - year - old influential Madison Avenue art director and the creative force behind scores of famous advertising campaigns, is sending the collection of ad - related artifacts from his long career to CUNY.

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.

AMERICAN MADE A 18,500 - to 17,000 - year - old stone artifact unearthed at Chile's Monte Verde site, shown from the side (left) and top (right), contains smooth areas where pieces of the rock were struck off to create a scraping or cutting tool.

In July, however, a team reported in Nature that thousands of artifacts from a Northern Australia site were about 65,000 years old.

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

Bell's personal collection — which includes a World War II — era Enigma encryption machine and a century - old hand - crank calculator — now forms the core of the most comprehensive trove of computer artifacts in the world, with more than 100,000 items and counting.

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.

A Russian general searching for treasure had already cut through the oldest of them, so Pumpelly and his son began there, using methods that were surprisingly modern in an era when most archaeologists were fixated on finding spectacular artifacts.

But in recent years, potentially older artifacts have turned up at a handful of sites, including Monte Verde in southern Chile and the Debra L. Friedkin site in central Texas, suggesting that people lived in the Americas long before the Clovis technology turned up.

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

The century - old artifact that defines the kilogram, the fundamental unit of mass, is to be replaced by a more accurate standard based on an invariant property of nature

The deepest, oldest layers of sediment had hardened, yielding chunks with artifacts studding their surfaces.

Scientists working in the desert badlands of northwestern Kenya have found stone tools dating back 3.3 million years, long before the advent of modern humans, and by far the oldest such artifacts yet discovered.

One of the most celebrated artifacts in mathematics is a palm - sized cuneiform tablet made during the Old Babylonian period, nearly 4000 years ago in modern - day Iraq.

Younger infants, who have little to no experience with solid food, also showed evidence of a plant - based bias: Six - month - old infants looked longer at in - mouth actions when they were performed with fruits from the artifact, suggesting that this violated their expectations for edibility.

Sammy Lokorodi, a resident of Kenya's northwestern desert who works as a fossil and artifact hunter, led the way to a trove of 3.3 million - year - old tools.

On the morning of 5 January, according to witnesses, about 150 people barged into the institute, severed the telephone lines, ransacked the cupboards, tore thousands of books, and damaged the writings on palm leaves, rare artifacts, and old photographs in the library.

Steve: You know, today is also the anniversary of the death of Darwin, speaking of the human evolution with Kate, and just to finish up — am I wrong, but isn't the place you're most likely to find a fistfight at a conference, one of these human evolution anthropology conferences where people are arguing over whether that bone represents a new species or just an example of a known species or whether some artifact is again a new species or some kind of pathological example of an old species?

The Lomekwi area where the tools were found had already produced the fossil skull of early hominin Kenyanthropus platyops by Meave and her team, and the West Turkana Archaeological Project has previously discovered the earliest artifacts from the Oldowan culture known from Kenya, and the world's oldest Acheulean handaxes.

The Burke delivered hundreds of centuries - old artifacts to the Suquamish people from the Old Man House village siold artifacts to the Suquamish people from the Old Man House village siOld Man House village site.

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?

The audio weirdness of which you speak is an artifact of the fact that all the older videos were originally part of my Latest in Nutrition DVDs (http://www.drgreger.org/DVDs), and so got chopped up into topical segments for the website and you experience these kinds of continuity issues.

Kings Saddlery — A famous saddle and rope - maker, they also have a huge museum attached to their shop that has tons of amazing history and artifacts from the wild west (especially loved the Native American art and clothing and the old stage - coaches).

MacAskills 115 year old home displays over 100 hand tinted photographs and artifacts dating back to the early days of photography.

10 of the most beautiful places to visit in Bulgaria by Ellis Shuman — I think it's quite amazing that Bulgaria is still considered to be off the In the 1970s, archaeologists in Bulgaria stumbled upon a vast Copper Age necropolis from the 5th millennium BC containing the oldest golden artifacts ever

Carbon - 14 dating is a way of determining the age of certain archeological artifacts of a biological origin up to about 50,000 years old.

However, no sooner is T'Challa named King than the country's old enemy, Ulysses Klaue (Andy Serkis), emerges from the shadows, breaks into a British museum, and steals a rare Wakandan artifact made of Vibranium: the strongest metal on earth and the precious mineral that holds the key to Wakanda's many secrets - from the country's advanced technology to Black Panther's impenetrable armor and the rare herb that provides him with his superhuman abilities.

A lot of attention has gone into the film's video games, computer imagery and costumes, to the point where simply watching these artifacts is half the fun... But eventually Hackers turns tedious, perhaps not realizing that an audience can get tired of the same old equations floating in cyberspace.

Oh, the Academy Award nominee then teams up with actual Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins («Noah»), a crusty old British lord, and a comely professor of English Literature (Laura Haddock, «The Inbetweeners Movie») to search for and retrieve the missing artifact before Optimus and Megatron and whomever else get to it.

Then there's The Train Robbers, with Budd Boetticher's long - time writer Burt Kennedy taking the hyphenate reins on what washes out as a frickin» godawful artifact of the old western style that wasn't any fresher back when Kennedy was minting classics with Ranown.

Whether protecting the ancient Hebrew Ark of the Covenant (as seen in the prequel Raiders of the Lost Ark) or uncovering other antique artifacts, the indestructible hero does for dusty old relics and legends what Bill Nye did for science and lab coats.

Since Disney's disc loses the fullscreen transfer that was included on the old DVD, the film is considerably less compressed, which results in fewer of the tiny artifacts that occassionally riddled the Anchor Bay DVD.

Adventure Club (Unrated) Sci - fi fantasy about a trio of ten year - old BFFs (Dalila Bella, Jakob Davies and Sam Ashe Arnold) who end up on the run from several shady characters after finding an ancient artifact capable of granting wishes.

The Collector in Marvel Comics continuity is an ELDER of the freakin» Universe, a literal small handful (14) of beings much older than even advanced races in seats of cosmic power like the Kree and Xandarians, and who would also logically possess the knowledge of the Infinity Stones origins — artifacts whose power goes back to the MCU's other ancient cosmic race — the Celestials.

Some of the 36,000 artifacts on display include a slave cabin from the early 1800s and an 1835 bill of sale for a 16 - year old African American girl.

Based in accumulated experiences, a school's rules and regulations, polices and procedures, whether written or informal, are the lasting artifacts of old organizational lessons.

Another unfortunate artifact of the old - fashioned retouching of official factory photos is this overly emphasized line.

She was thinking, already, of the artifacts tucked away in an old briefcase, shoved under one of the unused twin cots.

Twelve - year - old Londoner Agatha Mistery surrounds herself with a cast of sleuths who solve well - plotted mysteries like this one, which involves a missing Egyptian artifact.