Sentences with phrase «prehistoric societies»

In this image the patterns are not created by prehistoric societies but by opencast ironstone quarrying east of Corby — the lines snaking across the plate are the overburden removed to gain access to the ironstone beds.
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.
In prehistoric societies, the people revered the woman as the source of all life, because they basically were.
Although stone - tool - dependent cultures exist even today, most stone tools are associated with prehistoric societies that no longer exist.
Sebastian Kraemer, child psychiatrist at London's Whittington Hospital, said: «It is possible that, in prehistoric societies, this was a normal way of fathering.
And by the time a species called Homo heidelbergensis had appeared, perhaps around 600,000 years ago, there was a clear right - handed preference in prehistoric societies.
Further careful excavations and reconstructions on Malta and at other Mediterranean sites should extend our understanding of the complexities and diversity of prehistoric society.

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Abfractions are not found in prehistoric times but are quite common in today's contemporary society.
D46 — Key slide — it is rare to find occlusal disharmony in prehistoric skulls — that society had no option except to breastfeed their young.
Despite extensive archaeological and anthropological evidence for its occurrence, most scientists believe that cannibalism was only an irregular feature of prehistoric human societies.
Prehistoric human populations of hunter - gatherers in a region of North America grew at the same rate as farming societies in Europe, according to a new radiocarbon analysis involving researchers from the University of Wyoming and the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
The prehistoric Maltese society seems to have let a fixation on sculpture and art replace contact with the world beyond the islands rocky coasts.
Researchers previously theorized that the communities — many linked to Chaco by prehistoric roads — formed part of a powerful religious society that spread its tentacles far into outlying areas.
Prehistoric human populations of hunter - gatherers in the region that is now Wyoming and Colorado grew at the same rate as farming societies in Europe, according to a new radiocarbon analysis involving University of Wyoming researchers.
This is consistent with recent findings that AMY2B copy number is highest in modern dog populations originating from geographic regions with prehistoric agrarian societies, and lowest from regions where humans did not rely on agriculture for subsistence34 and supports the claim that the expansion occurred after initial domestication (possibly after the migration of dingoes to Australia 3,500 — 5,000 years ago) 34.
In collaboration with curator Miwako Tezuka, director of Japan Society Gallery, Mariko Mori has designed the upcoming exhibition to invite us to a journey through immersive environments, which reflects prehistoric view on the birth of the life force; the present - day rupture of humankind from nature; and the potential for the reemergence of creative energy.
In 1995, he collaborated with the College of Eastern Utah Prehistoric Museum in Price, Utah, to make replicas of their entire collection of dinosaur track casts, and exhibited these in New York and throughout Europe; in 1997 he collaborated with the International Center for Lightning Research and Testing in Starke, Florida, to trigger lightning with rockets, and worked with a local souvenir manufacturer to create over 10,000 replicas of a fulgurite created by the lightning strike; in 2000 he collaborated with the Pioneers Museum in the desert community of Imperial Valley, California, to reproduce souvenir copies and large models of their local mountain, Mount Signal, and the unique «Sand Spike» sand concretions found at its base; and in 2003, he created 120 topographical models of the states of Missouri and Kansas, which he donated and delivered himself to 120 small historical society museums in both states.
«We are creating a prehistoric climate in which human societies will face huge and potentially catastrophic risks,» said Bob Ward, policy director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change at the London School of Economics.
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