Sentences with phrase «used by the anthropologists»

The skull was discovered in a Portuguese cave and is now used by the anthropologists to determine how hominins, Neanderthals in particular, evolved during the middle Pleistocene epoch in Europe.

Not exact matches

University of London anthropologist Graeber starts by taking exception to one of the fundamental received wisdoms of economics: that our monetary structures evolved from barter - based transactions, through the invention of money and use of coin, to the development of credit systems of increasing complexity.

Around the turn of the century, anthropologists realized that they could tell a great deal about a culture by studying its use of language.

Several anthropologists, studying the difference between magic and religion in primitive peoples, have indicated that the latter (religion) is much more an intended conformity of things human with the divine, whereas the former (magic) is the effort, by use of formulae or rites, to bring the divine into conformity with things human.

Again, the publishers proclaim on the dust - jacket of another recent work (Edmund Perry, The Gospel in Dispute [see n. 34, below], the publishers are Doubleday): «Dr. Perry has used the skills of the cultural anthropologist in presenting a clear picture of the four leading non-Christian religions — a picture accepted enthusiastically by their exponents.»

The effort to characterize construals of the Christian thing in the particular cultural and social locations that make them concrete will involve several disciplines: (a) those of the intellectual historian and textual critic (to grasp what the congregation says it is responding to in its worship and why); and (b) those of the cultural anthropologist and the ethnographer [3] and certain kinds of philosophical work [4](to grasp how the congregation shapes its social space by its uses of scripture, by its uses of traditions of worship and patterns of education and mutual nurture, and by the «logic «of its discourse); and (c) those of the sociologist and social historian (to grasp how the congregation's location in its host society and culture helps shape concretely its distinctive construal of the Christian thing).

But some anthropologists said his 1968 ethnography, Yanomamö: The Fierce People, exploited the tribe by breaking their taboo on using the names of the dead; others argued that its emphasis on violent encounters helped governments justify invasions of Yanomamö territory.

Genetic studies such as this one may help anthropologists understand those migrations — and their timing — even better by giving them a genetic «clock» to use when studying today's humans, or potentially DNA extracted from ancient bones.

In 2016, a team led by University of Victoria archaeologist April Nowell and her colleague Cam Walker, a biological anthropologist with Archaeological Investigations Northwest Inc. in Portland, Ore., used CIEP to analyze tools found at a 250,000 - year - old animal processing site in Jordan's Shishan Marsh.

The technique is the «gold standard» for metabolic studies, and the researchers did a «terrific job» using it to compare the total calories burned daily by apes and humans, says biological anthropologist William Leonard of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

The program, co-created by Jantz, is used by nearly every board - certified forensic anthropologist in the US and around the world.

For example, in a paper published in Royal Society Open Science in November 2014, scientists led by anthropologist Robert Walker of the University of Missouri, Columbia, used satellite images to survey isolated groups in Brazil.

So what we started out with was sort of the paradox that we saw a coup in these especially, the swamp populations; we saw several tool uses that were shown by everybody in the population, so the anthropologists would say they are customary and were rather complex looking and yet didn't occur anywhere else.

In the largest experiment ever undertaken into the manipulative pressures experienced by the hand during stone tool production, biological anthropologist's analysed the manipulative forces and frequency of use experienced by the thumb and fingers on the non-dominant hand during a series of stone tool production sequences that replicated early tool forms.

The site uses a multi-leveled personality created by a renowned anthropologist, Dr. Helen Fisher, to evaluate your characteristics.

A payroll mishap brings Maggie and aspiring novelist John (a «ficto - critical anthropologist» by trade) together, and her willingness to read his writing and offer some support, is all it takes to finish off John's slowly disintegrating marriage to Georgette (Ms. Moore dusting off the Euro accent she used in The Big Lebowski).

Jackson follows forensic anthropologist Dr. Michael Charney and his colleagues as they solve an actual case by developing a physical profile from bones and teeth, reconstructing the victim's skull, and using clues from fibers and other material to make further identification.

Chapters by anthropologists, sociologists, and law professors, using anthropological rather than legal methodologies, provide original analyses of particular legal developments.

With a background of geology, astronomy, and meteorology, Saint Exupéry presents the human struggle for knowledge and security against the powers of the natural world; with an anthropologist's understanding of tools and techniques, he compares the airplane and the plough, the flyer and the shepherd, and evaluates the long process by which the tool, even when it is as complicated as an airplane, comes to be taken for granted and used with the simple directness of an Indian's paddle.

The pavilion draws its title, and its conceptual framework, from a text written by a mid-20th-century anthropologist; it explores how humans use ritual and magic to provide structure and relief to their lives during tumultuous, uncertain moments.

Romany's abstract paintings use a color - language developed by 19th - century anthropologist and ethnographer Felix Von Luschan.

Price's commission will explore the archives and collections of the Ashmolean Museum and the Pitt Rivers Museum (which cares for Oxford's holdings of anthropology and world archaeology), looking particularly at photographs of artefacts and documents used historically by curators, anthropologists and archaeologists working in the field, while simultaneously engaging with the social and psychological implications of digital technologies.

He looks at the scientists who have been gathering objects for the collections of the Naturkundemuseum for over two centuries, much like an anthropologist studies a foreign culture by examining the everyday objects and utensils used.

While this is not a critique against the exhibitions mounted by the Walther Collection, which are generally of exceptional quality and do indeed advance the careers and interests of African photographers, the self - congratulatory tone echoes the rhetoric of aid used by NGOs, or the voice of the authoritative colonial anthropologist.

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