Sentences with phrase «other human artifacts»

A rhinoceros will soon be on view in Midtown Manhattan — a life - size aluminum rhinoceros, that is, from which a tire, a copier, a vacuum cleaner and other human artifacts sprout in all directions.

Not exact matches

Human beings and our artifacts are part of the environment of other organisms just as much as they are part of the environment for us.

Besides the conditions of society itself, under which family and friends had primary responsibility for the care of the dying and the dead, memento mon were spread throughout culture: in the church's art, in morality plays like Everyman, in drinking songs, in the ordinary artifacts of everyday life (e.g., in Austria a towel hanger portraying a human form split down the middle: one half a beautiful young woman, the other a skeleton) To be sure, the specter of death (and judgment) has been used as a form of social control.

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.

Clear evidence of prehistoric conflict can be difficult to discern in other parts of the world, but the arid climate and sparse settlement in the Southwest have left pueblo ruins, cultural artifacts, and even human remains remarkably intact.

«In other words, we wanted to make sure these signatures were meaningful in real, human tumors and not just an artifact of being grown in a dish,» says James Costello, PhD, investigator at the CU Cancer Center and assistant professor in the CU School of Medicine Department of Pharmacology.

The lion share of emotionally evocative stimuli in the lives of our ancestors would have been from the faces and bodies of other people, and if one finds human artifacts that are highly evocative, it is a good hunch that it looks or sounds human in some way.

There, the energetic 36 - year - old anthropologist unlocks a glass case and begins arranging human skulls and other skeletal artifacts — some genuine fossils, others high - quality reproductions — on a counter according to their age.

Artifacts of human or other industrial civilizations are unlikely to be found on a planet's surface after about 4 million years, wrote Frank and study co-author Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

In archaeology, absolute dating is usually based on the physical, chemical, and life properties of the materials of artifacts, buildings, or other items that have been modified by humans and by historical associations with materials with known dates (coins and written history).

The artifact turns humans into zombies and other enemy types, and all of this insanity is taking place right before the Titanic hits the pesky iceberg that brought it to its doom.

Someone might have taken a gun to a museum artifact or a human being, but then art may disfigure the humanity of others, too.

Those of us steeped in the vagaries of even the most rigorous art theory will be forgiven for finding the dry precision of these categories somewhat refreshing: recorded information must have communicatory intent, otherwise it is likely a form of embedded information, which is any object or other durable result of action: «the spider makes its web, the bird builds a nest, the human being makes tools, utensils, and other artifacts.»

The exhibition venue - a museum dedicated to the understanding of the natural world and man's place in it — made it possible for viewers to enjoy works by Arthur Dove, Max Ernst, Arshile Gorky, Paul Klee and numerous others before investigating the permanent displays of fossils, animals, minerals, rocks, plants and human artifacts.

As a collector of African art, cabinet of curiosities and other artifacts, Benes found beauty and meaning in relics of human life and culture, which was endemic to his art.

It showed a couple sharing a picnic in a serene meadow landscape with not a sign of other humans or human artifacts in sight.

Plants / vegetation, and other artifacts from humans prior to the industrial age, tree growth that all show significant warming (and cooling) along the way.

Skyscrapers, power transmission lines, vehicles and other existing human artifacts / activities are much more lethal to birds than are wind turbines — at least, since small turbines sited on migration routes have become a thing of the past.

A prime piece of evidence linking human activity to climate change turns out to be an artifact of poor mathematics., much of which was included in Muller's book «Physics for Future Presidents» (2008), rather long after Wahl & Ammann and other information was well - known.

If humans were to suddenly disappear and some intelligent species 20 million years in the future were to be studying this geological layer, they would be able to identify a difference from other interglacials separate from any human artifacts they might find.