Sentences with phrase «old human foot»

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We visited the canecutters» living quarters, smelled the stench of human waste, watched the prostitutes cavort, stuck our heads into the tiny rooms crowded with bunk beds, and spoke with an old man whose foot had been infected for several years.

More recent fossil discoveries in the same region, including the iconic 3.7 million year old Laetoli footprints from Tanzania which show human - like feet and upright locomotion, have cemented the idea that hominins (early members of the human lineage) not only originated in Africa but remained isolated there for several million years before dispersing to Europe and Asia.

Here, we report hominin footprints in two sedimentary layers dated at 1.51 to 1.53 million years ago (Ma) at Ileret, Kenya, providing the oldest evidence of an essentially modern human — like foot anatomy, with a relatively adducted hallux, medial longitudinal arch, and medial weight transfer before push - off.

Now, a 3.2 - million - year - old foot bone from a member of Lucy's species, Australopithecus afarensis, reveals that this hominin was no flat foot: It had already evolved arches and a stiff midfoot similar to living humans.

The primitive traits in this 3.4 - million - year - old partial right foot also show that there was more than one way for early human ancestors to walk upright for at least a million years, according to a new study.

This paper indicates humans were living for prolonged periods in the Peruvian Andes, at altitudes of 13 - 14,000 feet within a few millenia of the oldest reported human settlement on the South American continent.

The Turkana Boy Homo erectus skeleton belonged to a tall young boy who would probably have grown to around 182 cm (6 feet) in height, but his estimated adult brain size was only 910 cm3, about the size of a 3 or 4 year old modern human child.

Still it rose to an improbable height, the antlers seven feet beyond the eight - foot crossbar of the truck's pole rack — fifteen feet of animal stretched vertically, climbing into the heavens, and the humans working below, so tiny — but as they continued to carve away at it, it slowly came to seem less mythic and more steerlike; and the two old men working steadily upon it began to seem closer to its equal.

Puppy mills create a surplus of popular dogs and then either sell them for testing or euthanize them when they are too old to adopt out unless they can serve as a breeding dog in which case they will live in a cage with little human contact and never know the feel of grass under their feet.

It is thought that the friars of the Abbey of St. Hubert were responsible for crossing strains of older French breeds to create a low - built scenting hound that could plod over rough terrain while followed on foot by a human hunting partner tracking rabbit and deer.

They might not get the crow's feet and turkey necks that we older humans sport, but they do suffer from age related joint and soft tissue pain due to collagen loss and degradation.

Take the old Inca trail (a five - day journey by foot) and bring your bug spray — mosquitoes here are no strangers to human sacrifice.

2017 Secrets and Stories, Casa das Histórias, Cascais Depression Pictures, Marlborough Fine Art, London 2016 Old Meets New, Casa das Histórias, Cascais Dancing Ostriches, Marlborough Fine Art, London Paintings and Etchings from the 1980s, Frieze Masters, London 2015 Cousin Bazilio and Other Stories, Marlborough Galería, Madrid The Poacher, Casa das Histórias, Cascais 2014 The Last King of Portugal, Marlborough Fine Art, London 2013 Dame with the goat's foot and other stories, Marlborough Fine Art, London 2012 Retrospective, The Gulbenkian Museum, Paris Balzac and other Stories, Marlborough Fine Art, London 2010 - 11 Retrospective exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Monterrey, Mexico; Pinacoteca de Sao Paulo 2010 Oratorio, Marlborough Fine Art, London 2008 Human Cargo, Marlborough Chelsea, New York Retrospective Exhibition, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington O Vinho, a series of eight lithographs, Marlborough Fine Art, London; Galeria Marlborough, Madrid 2006 Marlborough Fine Art, London Paula Rego in Focus, Tate Britain, London 2003 - 04 Corner 2004, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen Jane Eyre and Other Stories, Marlborough Fine Art, London 2002 Celestina's House & Paula Rego — Jane Eyre, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven 2001 Nursery Rymes e Outras Gravuras, Parque das Nacoes, Lisbon So desenhos Paula Rego, Fundacao Arpad Szenes - Vieira da Silva, Lisbon 1999 The Children's Crusade — a suite of 12 etchings, Marlborough Graphics, London Recent Work, Marlborough Galeria SA, Madrid O Crime do Padre Amaro, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon Open Secrets — Drawings and Etchings, Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris Children's Crusade, Edinburgh Printmakers Workshop 1988 The Sins of Father Amaro, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London Pra Lá et Pra Cá, Galerie III, Lisbon Pendle Witches, Marlborough Galeria Madrid 1997 Retrospective exhibition, Tate Gallery Liverpool; Fundação das Descobertas, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon 1995 Nursery Rhymes and Peter Pan, Annandale Galleries, Sydney 1994 Dog Women, Marlborough Fine Art, London 1992 - 93 Peter Pan & Other Stories, Marlborough Fine Art, London 1991 - 92 Tales from the National Gallery, Travelling Exhibition: Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery; Middlesborough Art Gallery; Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester; Cooper Art Gallery, Barnsley; the National Gallery, London; the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle; The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon 1991 - 96 Nursery Rhymes, South Bank Centre, British Council and Marlborough Graphics 1990 Nursery Rhymes, Galerie III, Lisbon 1989 Nursery Rhymes, Marlborough Graphics Gallery, London Galeria III, ARCO, Madrid Galeria III, Lisbon 1988 Retrospective Exhibition, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon Casa de Serralves, Oporto; the Serpentine Gallery, London 1987 Selected work 1981 - 86, Aberystwyth Arts Centre and UK tour Edward Totah Gallery, London 1985 The Art Palace, New York Edward Totah Gallery, London 1984 Edward Totah Gallery, London 1983 Galerie Espace, Amsterdam 1982 Galeria III, Lisbon, Edward Total Gallery, London 1981 AIR Gallery, London 1978 Galeria III, Lisbon 1977 Módulo Centro Difusor da Arte, Oporto 1975 Módulo Centro Difusor da Arte, Lisbon 1974 Galeria da Emenda, Lisbon 1972 Galeria Alvarez, Oporto 1971 Galeria São Mamede, Lisbon 1965 SNBA, Lisbon

At about five - and - a-half feet tall, the sculptures depict headless human figures as a crowd — a subject the 85 - year - old Polish sculptor and fiber artist has been perfecting since the 1970s.