Sentences with phrase «other artefacts of»

And what about bombs, bullets, missiles, and various other artefacts of war?
In the 21st century, however, the discipline is thoroughly scientific and systematic, with new ways of extracting real and accurate information from old bones and other artefacts of lost worlds.

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Also, economists rely on an individualistic notion of property which is too simple to describe the disposition of factories, roads and the other shared artefacts of the industrial economy.
These other interpretations employ other types of evidence: oral history, the evolution of plants and animals, archaeology, stones, tools and weapons, material artefacts of all kinds, song, poetry, even dance and body movement, Antarctic ice, radio - activity, all these open windows into the past.
In other words, if one should beware of the curse of the artefact, success in a scientific career often comes down to an exceptional ability to sift the gold from the dross.
The manner in which artefacts are found, how deeply the are buried and where they are placed in relation to each other can provide a lot of information to archaeologists studying a site.
But there are no other artefacts and very few signs of domestic activity in the chamber beyond the presence of a charred bone fragment possibly from a bear or large herbivore.
But one by one, the pair ruled out all other explanations — that the pattern was an artefact from their electronic equipment, for example — and then they began to understand how this part of the brain was working.
The experts reached this conclusion after re-examining the 8,500 - year - old copper slag and analysing the chemical composition of other copper artefacts from the Stone Age settlement of Çatalhöyük in the Near East.
And as tourism has ballooned in recent years, so have inadvertent damage to sensitive walls and dwellings made of stone and mud, and the disappearance of potsherds and other artefacts.
The Turkana Basin Institute, in collaboration with the University of Bradford, has set up a web site fossilfinder.org, recruiting an army of «citizen scientists» to help discover fossils and other ancient artefacts using the unique online platform «Zooniverse».
Again this suggests that the scale of the «slowdown» over that period is simply an artefact of the changeover from one system to the other, and may not be real.
Unfortunately the Australian work did not use standard ancient DNA authentication tests, such as independent replication by other laboratories, biochemical studies of bone preservation, and cloning of DNA sequences (to reveal amplification artefacts).
is a trivia game allowing you to steal artefacts by correctly answering two out of three questions (you can also challenge other players for their artefacts).
@corsiKa: well, that's just an artefact of you and your wife being woefully slack about demanding each other's receipts; --RRB-
It includes 1000 - year - old ancient artefacts and antiquities, many on loan from other museums, including the National Museum of Denmark.
A number of new acquisitions are included in the exhibition, while other artefacts have never before been exhibited in the Anne Frank House.
The exhibition «Margot, sister of Anne» sketches an image of Margot Frank with the use of personal film testimony and other historical evidence, photos, letters and artefacts.
Containing no less than 33 million specimens of plants, rocks, fossils, minerals and other artefacts, you could easily spend days wondering the museum's various exhibits without feeling like you've even touched the surface.
Other recommended attractions close to El Toyo include Almeria Cathedral and the Almeria Archaeological Museum, where you can explore the history of the wider area and admire beautiful artefacts up close.
A laidback atmosphere with a tranquil aura in which to unwind and relax, there really is no better place to forget about your troubles other than in this charming village of pristine beaches and ancient artefacts.
La Finca offers the very best in facilities and luxury which are open to those people who want to play golf in the heart of nature while being able to enjoy the wonderful beaches of Guardamar (10 mins), International restaurants and nightlife of Torrevieja (18 mins) and a host of other facilities and services that are just a few minutes away eg Water Parks, Zoo, Historical artefacts, Fiestas, Horse riding, 5 Marinas - There really is something for everyone!
The rare collection of artefacts includes huge wooden boats, weapons such as daggers, swords and cannons and other archaeological digs.
Now for the crucial finishing move: the construction of the programmed artefact is also a product of player practices, those acquired by the developer from other games that they then conserve and modify to make their own game.
Due to the amount of render passes used by the engine, high levels of MSAA are required to deliver a mostly artefact - free presentation, but this impacts heavily on performance if other memory - intensive settings are also ramped up.
That work, Artefacts (2011), will be joined by other pieces, among them selections from an ongoing photographic series (left) called «Geographical Analogies (2006 --- present)» in which the artist juxtaposes historically and geographically disparate locations (for example, New Jersey's Passaic and Cambodia's Angkor) that have become emblems of deterioration.
Boyce's exhibition «Scat: Sound and Collaboration,» presented by Iniva in 2013, focused on the significance of sound in art bringing together two immersive video works along with artefacts from the Devotional Collection, Boyce's archive of CDs, cassettes, vinyl records and other ephemera charting the history of black women in the music industry.
Britain is home to a wealth of ancient artefacts, some left behind by the Romans and Saxons who once occupied the isles, others brought here by eager explorers and avaricious armies.
Historical and contemporary works of art, videos, machines, archaeological artefacts and iconic objects, like the giant inflatable cartoon figure of Felix the Cat — the first image ever transmitted on TV — inhabit an «enchanted landscape» created in Nottingham Contemporary's galleries, where objects seem to be communicating with each other and with us.
«Mementos: Artists» Souvenirs, Artefacts, and other Curiosities» unites personal objects from the private collections of artists participating in the fair.
Its sale at Bonhams also made the news last November: the Archaeological Institute of America openly criticised the decision of its St. Louis chapter to bring it and other artefacts to auction, eventually demanding the resignation of the subsidiary's entire board.
The exhibition is an intriguing combination of specially commissioned work by artists such as Marina Abramović and Anish Kapoor, and existing works by others, including Agnes Martin and Sol LeWitt — and also features Egyptian artefacts and a monumental sculpture by Canova.
In Patrick Hough's proposal, on the other hand, forgotten artefacts from the Hollywood Dream Factory — props and décor from abandoned film sets — take on a new life as precious mementoes of cinema history: replicas and fakes that have acquired a strange kind of authenticity.
This year, we bring an exclusive exhibition titled Mementos: Artists» Souvenirs, Artefacts and Other Curiosities which focuses on objects collected by seventy - three artists, all of whom are represented by galleries that are participating in Art Brussels 2017.
In the press release (PDF Download), Helfenstein explains the wide range of artefacts and their connection with each other and with Gandhi's ethics:
Other notable booths included Almine Rech (inc witty young American Carrie Weiss), Supportico Lopez, Stevenson's persuasive 45 - year survey of new - to - me Penny Siopsis; and Chewdays» combination of Palaeolithic artefacts with Gabriele Beveridge's meditations on ephemerality.
Duncan Campbell's acclaimed film It for Others — shown here in the context of Lismore Heritage Centre — tracks the object, from African artefacts to cheap, mass - market commodities, while Gerard Byrne's series of museum paintings offers a view of historic paintings as objects — photographed from behind, where their making and history is most evident
Small has brought together fragments of the set for Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments (1923), recovered from sand dunes on the Central California coast and now in a local museum, with other artefacts, including 1990s murals from the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas.
While some artists use archives and texts as foundations for their works, other practitioners of FIELD WORK use artefacts as their focus.
The original figures from which they were cast — some wooden, others plastic — stem from a wide range of contexts, such as German folklore, African tribal art and Oceanic artefacts.
Historical and contemporary works of art, videos, machines, archaeological artefacts and iconic objects, like the giant inflatable cartoon figure of Felix the Cat — the first image ever transmitted on TV — inhabit an «enchanted landscape» created in the Pavilion's galleries, where objects seem to be communicating with each other and with us.
Called Mementos: Artists» Souvenirs, Artefacts, and other Curiosities, the exhibition brings together personal objects and artefacts from the private collections of a diverse group of artists, all of whom are represented by galleries participating in Art BrussArtefacts, and other Curiosities, the exhibition brings together personal objects and artefacts from the private collections of a diverse group of artists, all of whom are represented by galleries participating in Art Brussartefacts from the private collections of a diverse group of artists, all of whom are represented by galleries participating in Art Brussels 2017.
Objects in the flagship artistic project Mementos: Artists» Souvenirs, Artefacts, and other Curiosities include: a book kept by Josephine Meckseper from an ex-boyfriend and descendent of Victor Hugo; a bottle of sandy water collected by Kendell Geers from the meeting point of the Indian and Atlantic Ocean at full moon; and Kris Martin's small bell without a clapper, acquired as a child and the source of inspiration for his major work now installed at the Walker Art Centre.
Mementos: Artists» Souvenirs, Artefacts, and Other Curiosities will feature personal objects and artefacts from the private collections of over fifty international artists including Robert Barry, Eric Baudelaire, Larry Clark, Kendell Geers, Andrea Eva Gyori, Jenny Holzer, Folkert de Jong, Joseph Kosuth, Germaine Kruip, Jose Lerma, Kris Martin, Josephine Meckseper, Jonathan Monk, Herman Nitsch, Malgorzata Szymankiewicz, Gert & Uwe Tobias, Betty Tompkins and manArtefacts, and Other Curiosities will feature personal objects and artefacts from the private collections of over fifty international artists including Robert Barry, Eric Baudelaire, Larry Clark, Kendell Geers, Andrea Eva Gyori, Jenny Holzer, Folkert de Jong, Joseph Kosuth, Germaine Kruip, Jose Lerma, Kris Martin, Josephine Meckseper, Jonathan Monk, Herman Nitsch, Malgorzata Szymankiewicz, Gert & Uwe Tobias, Betty Tompkins and manartefacts from the private collections of over fifty international artists including Robert Barry, Eric Baudelaire, Larry Clark, Kendell Geers, Andrea Eva Gyori, Jenny Holzer, Folkert de Jong, Joseph Kosuth, Germaine Kruip, Jose Lerma, Kris Martin, Josephine Meckseper, Jonathan Monk, Herman Nitsch, Malgorzata Szymankiewicz, Gert & Uwe Tobias, Betty Tompkins and many others.
The exhibition in MMOMA includes video works («Tightrope», «Gamsutl»), objects («Landscape»), the artefacts from a past epoch which are the artist's collection of Soviet signs (such as «Dagestan», Sport» and «Gostorgovlya»), videos of food - related performances («Caspian Sea», «Crystal Balls» and «Stomach It» amongst others) and various video evidence of the life - asserting practices of Super Taus — Taus Makhacheva's heroic alter - ego.
Spiralling joyfully out of control, they joined a raucous collection arranged atop a large wooden table, Cinaedus Table MDCCLXXV (2007), that also included glitter shoes, star - catchers made of yarn, glassware, pine - cones, butterflies in jars, cacti, tinfoil, candlesticks and a gilded log, among other art and artefacts.
They are connected by memory, events and objects, but they are not thereby symbiotic because artworks and mere artefacts of historical significance are ontologically different things; and in that differences resides a sovereign semantic tension which dictates that one can only illuminate the other at the cost of its own sacrifice.
At the same time, the connection between these artefacts and a specific culture and age unearths their political and social implications: A humble household job, mostly carried out by women and serving private needs, is the other side to an art that was fit to celebrate the wealth and power of the great European courts.
No one doubts that there is a slow down of surface temperature rise after the 1998 El Nino, which is probably an artefact due to internal variability of one or the other kind..
As I've pointed out in other essays, the notion that the whole world is anxious about global warming or climate change is an artefact of the way in which public opinion surveys construct their questions.
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