Sentences with phrase «preserved on clay»

Not a little of this is preserved on clay tablets and has been deciphered.

Not exact matches

After a portion of cliff was washed away by the sea, the team found ancient hominid footprints within the hardened clay that had been buried beneath, dating back about 900,000 years based on the vegetation preserved in the clay's sediments.

Astronomers know very little for certain about Ceres, but based on indirect evidence, they speculate that it is a world of clay and ice, and possibly even has a subsurface ocean of liquid water, preserved from the very creation of the solar system.

One «must» for all four ExoMars sites was clay: fine - grained sediment that, on Earth, is deposited by water and is excellent at preserving the remains of ancient organisms.

Fontana's «Crocifisso», 1948 modeled in clay and painted in a lush polychrome glaze could have been paired with de Kooning's crucifixion drawings or his strikingly similar bronze works to which Suzanne Hudson refers in her text, however, we selected a body of painting on paper which, Hudson notes with interest, immediately follows de Kooning's brief five - year encounter with sculpture and «preserve the sensation and bodily impressions of pliant clay.»