Sentences with phrase «of prehistoric»

the bit that got me most excited (even more excited than decorating my own pair of prehistoric footwear (which turned out to be a rather snappy pair of ugg boots that I bedazzled) was I thought I was going to meet an ACTUAL sloth, but I mis - read the PR details.

Kennewick Man is the name for the remains of a prehistoric man found on a bank of the Columbia River in 1996.

The Plesioth, a sort of prehistoric chicken - fish Wyvern from the first Monster Hunter game, would only be fought on land originally; naturally, it made sense for the Plesioth to make a reappearance in Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate, this time underwater.

The ice contains minute bubbles of prehistoric air trapped when it was formed, and once a reliable method had been developed by which to isolate and analyse that air (it is done in a vacuum), it was possible to get an idea of the composition of the atmosphere of the past, through ice - ages and interglacials.

These methods are designed to re-enact the movements of the prehistoric herds that once nurtured global grasslands with their manure deposits and «hoof action» (gentle trampling that increases the soil's ability to hold water).

In the desert of Australia — land of all creatures wonderful and weird — dwells a remnant of prehistoric time, a crustacean known as a shield shrimp.

Coal is a fossil fuel and is the altered remains of prehistoric vegetation that originally accumulated in swamps and peat bogs.

Fossils of Prehistoric sharks found in Idaho and Utah, meaning this area was part of the ocean (coming in through Washington).

The problem is that humans weren't collecting climate data during these time periods and obviously weren't present for most of the prehistoric past.

«Terra Preta Magic Soil of the Lost Amazon by Allan Balliett in Acres USA, February 2007 It's like finding a lost chapter from Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird's Secrets of the Soil — terra preta (literally «black earth») is a manmade soil of prehistoric origin that is higher in nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and calcium than adjacent soils.

Mark Bush presented on the ecology of prehistoric Amazonia - with intensive land use along waterways but far lower levels elsewhere (Bush et al 2015).

They suggest an evolutionary phase in the history of a prehistoric place, but also seem apparitional and without absolute reference — both solid and transparent, apropos of the kind of metaphysics at work in his studio.

It has the monumentality of a prehistoric megalith, equally as timeless and indecipherable.

It has been identified as one of the oldest pieces of prehistoric art in the Western Hemisphere Chip Clark / Journal of Archaeological Science hide caption

For his third exhibition at the gallery, Paul Swenbeck presents Dor and Oranor, comprised of two sculptural tableaux of a prehistoric drama.

The inaugural exhibition since Cahiers d'Art's relaunch presented early Kelly paintings, highlights from his collection of prehistoric birdstones, bannerstones and copper shields as well as a selection of the artist's recent color lithographs.

The same could be said for Jo Baer's paintings of prehistoric sites and rituals, where negative space is used to haunting, spectral effect.

Curated by Tessa Giblin, this show takes a long, dispassionate look at our Anthropocene age, an era in which the effects of man's activity on earth are as pervasive and devastating as the geological events of prehistoric eras.

Brief shots of forest scenes are illuminated by what must be fireworks falling out of the sky and hitting the great trunks in showers of sparks — but my mind conjured ideas of prehistoric meteor storms.

ANCIENT ARTS AND CULTURES For a review of prehistoric art forms including painting, sculpture and decorative arts, see: Ancient Art.

The totemic form appears ancient and is reminiscent of prehistoric fertility goddesses such as the Venus of Willendorf.

It's possible to imagine an exhibition one day where the «Armi» and the «Finte sculture» would be shown near the last groups of works — albeit ideally in separate rooms — illustrating what a jump it was for Pascali to make sculptures based on animal forms, or how he moved from using industrial materials to re-create contemporary weaponry into using domestic materials to conjure a world of prehistoric fantasy.

The concepts of time, intuition, and primordial memory guide her output — the creatures of her Botânica paintings recall those of prehistoric cave paintings; her Mimesmas sculptures conjure mollusk fossils or ancient tools of stone.

Her professional relationship with Ballard led her to consider the relationship between earthwork and story, mining the parallels as both were set in saline landscapes where time is marked, in part, through the inclusion of prehistoric creatures.

«If it was right for Delacroix and Matisse to travel to far and strange places like Tunis and Tahiti for subjects,» he wrote, «what is wrong with traveling to the catacombs of the unconscious, or the dim recollections of a prehistoric past?»

Tom Friedman's «Caveman (Flash Photograph of the Cover of a National Geographic Magazine Featuring a Drawing of a Prehistoric Man)» (2006), with its face dissolved in a blob of reflected light, figures as a comically cynical rejoinder to the spirit photographs.

The jagged pictures in question are stylized busts the artist has previously termed «anxious men»; their rectangular heads, twisted mouths, and swirling, agitated eyes lend them an archaic universality that would feel equally at home scrawled on building exteriors in a contemporary city or the interior walls of a prehistoric cave.

The aura of the prehistoric Chinese jade disks and the meditative accent of Rosenstein's 10 Way Drawings find resonance in the bronze sculptures of John Connell.

This survival of the past, full of misunderstandings, shifts and projections (as shown in the slideshow Egyptomania, the film Cynopolis, drawings of the Sphinx, and even in the photographs of prehistoric flints) troubles cultural codes and conventions.

«Mark Dean Veca is a purveyor of prehistoric magic: creating space on a two - dimensional plane with a few lines of charcoal, ink or paint.

The pockmarked surface of Point (2009), consisting of fragments of shattered eggshells, resembles the fossil of a prehistoric arrowhead.

On the second floor is the Standing Figure (2016), a life - size marble statue created specifically for this show; it clearly references the world famous Cycladic figurines that are part of the museum's permanent collection of prehistoric art.

Flash Art In his own words Dawson paints «still lives of tools and materials of painting, insects, birds, plants and animals, visions of prehistoric...

Inspired by the art and architecture of prehistoric societies, such as Stonehenge, Speidel explores the relationships between people and objects and the core of humanity running between in her sculptural objects.

«About 50,000 years ago an ape man named Homerbuctas masturbated in a field of prehistoric flowers giving birth to a legend, no, «The» Legend.

In both the «Gray Paintings (Loxodonta)» and the «Organ Pipes», the materiality of the objects open up to suggest a vast scope of cultural production — the elemental tin transformed into the majestic pipe organ, an achievement of pre-industrial design on par with horology; the «Gray Paintings (Loxodonta)» echoing the stone surface of prehistoric cave paintings and also the modernist tradition of the monochrome.

What makes it appealing to a gamer it the existence of prehistoric creatures.

Well, while there have been a number of Jurassic Park games released shortly after the first movie came out, they were all rather arcadey and none of them really succeeded in conveying the scale of the prehistoric beasts.

ARK stands out from the eSports crowd not just because of the prehistoric dinosaurs, but due to the open island survival gameplay experience.

The same goes for the Triceratops in the Canyon stage of the prehistoric epoch, a creature you end up hearing far sooner than seeing it.

The action of the game takes players to a near future, in which human scientists managed to develop a technology allowing them to recreate the DNA of prehistoric reptiles.

Firehose Games's PC tower defense game, Go Home Dinosaurs, is a game about protecting an army of gopher's midsummer stash of BBQ from a toothy, slow - walking horde of prehistoric foes.

EyePet — Dinosaur Pack ($ 2.99) The Dinosaur Pack for EyePet brings the fun and adventure of prehistoric times directly to your living room!

To show off its new technology, Crytek created a tech demo of a game called X-Isle: Dinosaur Island that featured a variety of prehistoric creatures stomping around in the woods.

After making their way through the city to the main shrine, the group discovers that the Cintamani Stone is a giant amber derived, along with the flammable resin, from the sap of a prehistoric tree of life in the center of the city.

Studio Wildcard has announced that ARK: Survival Evolved will be a frantic first person, multiplayer dinofest where you can tame and ride on over 60 species of the prehistoric creatures.

Guerilla Games initially drew mixed reactions from both myself and the crowd at first glance with the opening of a prehistoric time.

With a mix of prehistoric weaponry and robotic dinosaurs, Aloy's world was like nothing gamers had ever seen.

View the dramatic body of prehistoric rock paintings at the Quinkan Reserves Ancient Rock Art in Laura — definitely worthy of a World Heritage listing.

In this islands» capital, you'll find the Museum of Prehistoric Thera, the Lignos Folklore Museum and many more opportunities for inquisitive minds to learn about the islands» ancient history.