Sentences with phrase «of small caves»

Dozens of eels can usually be seen at the openings of small caves.

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God started with a small party in a garden, moved on toward some pow - wows at alters in the desert, then moved into a moveable tabernacle (kind of like an Old Testament RV), then reigned in a temple (especially the God - cave of the Holy of Holies, then disappeared while giving the Jews the silent treatment for some 400 years, then came back to the temple, then traveled the highways and byways with anyone who wanted to join the fun and whooped it up with society's outcasts and wedding attenders, then moved on to some public forums, then into some clandestine home groups and a few jail cells, and eventually made his way into traditional church as we now know it.

While the NKPA overran the smaller cities outside Taegu, city officials from Pun's hometown hid in a nearby cave outside of the village.

What appears to be the oldest non-biblical Hebrew - language reference to Jerusalem was found on a small piece of papyrus recovered from antiquities robbers who said they had found it in a cave in the Judean desert.

We've focused exclusively on the wind and fire and tongue - speaking of Pentecost and dismissed the still, small voice Elijah heard in the cave on Mount Sinai.

In the sixteenth century astronomy, in the seventeenth century microbiology, in the eighteenth geology and paleontology, in the nineteenth Darwin's biology all grotesquely extended the world - frame and sent churchmen scurrying for cover in ever smaller, shadowy nooks, little gloomy ambiguous caves in the psyche where even now neurology is cruelly harrying them, gouging them out of the multifolded brain like wood lice from under a lumber pile.

In a few thousand years of recorded history, we went from dwelling in caves and mud huts and tee - pees, not understanding the natural world around us, or the broader universe, to being able to travel through space, using reason to ferret out the hidden secrets of how the world works, from physics to chemistry to biology, we worked out the tools and rules underpinning it all, mathematics, and now we can see objects that are almost impossibly small, the very tiniest building blocks of matter, (or at least we can examine them, even if you can't «see» them because you're using something other than your eyes and photons to view them) to the very farthest objects, the planets circling other, distant stars, that are in their own way, too small to see from here, like the atoms and parts of atoms themselves, detected indirectly, but indisputably THERE.

There follows the well - known story of his journey for forty days through the desert, his resting in the cave, and the unforgettable meeting between Elijah and God, who was found in the still small voice.

Blackberries aren't my kind of fruit but I caved and bought two small packages of blueberries yesterday.

I've caved and started giving Darling Baby small amounts of grains in the past couple months, -LSB-...]

See the oldest known cave painting in the world at El Castillo and experience the wonders of El Castillo, Las Monedas, La Peña Cave, El Pindal and Tito Bustillo in small groups by torchlight.

Instead, he sees all the fossils in these caves as disparate remnants of a succession of small populations.

The Tianyuan Man did not have any detectable DNA from Denisovans, an elusive cousin of Neandertals known only from their DNA extracted from a few teeth and small bones from a Siberian cave and from traces of their DNA that can still be found in people in Melanesia — where they got it is a major mystery.

This March it found signs of white - nose infected animals in two small caves — one hosting fewer than 10 bats and the other with around 60.

The most spectacular finding was made on an elevated shelf within a small chamber of the cave: a very well preserved «calotte,» hence the upper part of a braincase.

The model also gave insight into the timing of sinkhole formation: Large blocks of salt were more likely to collapse all at once, whereas smaller salt deposits showed a slump on the surface before caving in.

Participants worked in teams of 16 that had one of four network structures: a caveman network that has four different cliques (four caves of four, each cave connected to two others); a hierarchy network (also four cliques, but arranged with a central clique connected to the other three); a rewired caveman network (a «small world» network, constructed by removing some links from the caveman network and adding others that create shortcuts); and the ring network (a ring where each person is connected to two others, one on each side, creating a circle with no clustering or central command).

Within days of the publication of the cretinism paper, investigators led by Lee Berger of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg announced that they had discovered small modern human bones ranging in age from 1,400 to 2,900 years old in two caves in Palau, Micronesia.

That is because the assistant professor of earth and environmental sciences at Vanderbilt University is a member of a small group of earth scientists who are pioneering in the use of mineral cave deposits, collectively known as speleothems, as proxies for the prehistoric climate.

This is a photo of the small stalagmite in the Mawmluh cave before it was collected.

In the paper, the team even speculates that cretins isolated from the rest of the group might be the origin of local myths of the «Ebu Gogo,» small, hairy people who stole food and lived in caves.

In recent years, researchers have identified a small group of stalactites that appear to have calcified underwater instead of in a dry cave.

«We're hoping to use a remote - controlled robot to go through small caves in Egypt,» he says, «and find remains of ancient Egyptian tombs.»

That all changed in 1959 with the discovery of a small chamber in a cave called Balankanché, near the great Yucatán ruin of Chichén Itza.

Some caves, like Actun Tunichil Muknal, or «Cave of the Crystal Sepulchre,» contain human or animal remains, as well as ceramic pots, musical instruments, jewelry, small sculptures and stingray spines, which were used for bloodletting.

Although nuclear fission, photovoltaics, wind, and water now meet a small portion of the world population's energy needs, humans today get most of our energy the same way the cave people did: directly from the sun or from fire.

The cave, which has many archaeological layers spanning 100,000 years, has yielded both Neandertal and modern human stone tools and a small collection of hominin bones too fragmentary to be identified.

Rivers were full of food but caves have only what is washed in by seasonal floods — some small aquatic crustaceans, decomposing matter and detritus in the mud.

«It hits when the population is at its smallest, and by the end of winter nearly 100 percent of the bats in a cave can be infected, which helps explain why it has such large impacts,» said Kate Langwig, a graduate student at UC Santa Cruz and first author of the paper.

They noticed that some of the cave art was covered with «cave popcorn,» small stalactitelike growths that formed atop the paintings when mineral - rich water trickled over the cave walls.

Earlier this year, he and his colleagues confirmed that an unusually small - brained human — Homo naledi — found in the Dinaledi chamber of South Africa's Rising Star cave was alive between 236,000 and 335,000 years ago.

The team includes Thomas Sutikna of the National Centre for Archaeology in Jakarta and the University of Wollongong in Australia, who helped discover the «hobbit,» a small - statured human species from another Indonesian island, and he and Brumm are already excavating the caves near the newly dated art to search for ocher pieces, stone tools, and bones.

«We can tell by the artefacts that small groups of people camped at this cave.

When small, humanlike bones were discovered in a cave on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2003, anthropologists knew they had found something exceedingly odd.

Small altars at either end of the megalithic pavement beside the burial pit may have been used for preliminary sacrifices and obeisances before the priest and the assembled mourning community ventured down into the foul, reeking caves of the dead.

Its small brain challenges an assumption that large brains are required for complex behavior, such as negotiating the cramped depths of a cave, in total darkness, apparently to dispose of its dead.

The ancient structures — more than 330 meters inside the current entrance to the cave — include a scattering of small, deliberately arranged heaps of stone along with two large rings, one about 2.2 meters across and the other nearly three times that size.

Over the past few years, a small number of prehistorians have claimed that cave dwellers pioneered a sort of show business.

Though there are many caves, only a small number have the best conditions for climate study, including 100 percent relative humidity, constant temperatures, no cave winds, and the actual stalagmites — free of holes and decay — forming in the cave.

Last summer, we found small pieces of volcanic glass in a cave that might be from an eruption that occurred in Indonesia nearly 70,000 years ago.

At one end of the web, a female spider spins a small cave.

A supposed new species of human with an exceptionally small brain and an unusual combination of both primitive and more modern human - like features has been discovered in a remote South African cave chamber, according to research published in the journal eLIFE.

The higher level of focus on genetic material from the few small fragments from the Central Asian cave shows the people Paabo calls Denisovans — clearly different genetically from Neanderthals but closely related to them and also to our own species — probably to have formed a larger population than the Neanderthals themselves, as they show a higher degree of variation in their genetic makeup.

It seems we are still in the early stages of understanding the material found in this small cave in Central Asia.

I've caved and started giving Darling Baby small amounts of grains in the past couple months, -LSB-...]

In terms of evolutionary time, it hasn't been that long since we dwelled in caves and small villages.

So against Katherine's advisement, David and Emily move from New York City to the small upstate town of Woodland, where neighbors are separated by menacing forests that contain dark, foreboding caves.

In his «Allegory of the Cave» Plato wrote of a small group of people living in a cave, the only environment they knew.

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Whether it's making you feel like you're gazing at the Chauvet caves in Southern France in Cave of Forgotten Dreams or making you aware of how small a boy is in...