Sentences with phrase «years as an anthropologist»

I have studied paganism and wiccan practices for years as an Anthropologist.

They resemble architectural forms or ritualized objects; given Nonas's early years as an anthropologist, they just might be inspired by them, too.

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Wirlu - murra elders have led a team of anthropologists and archaeologists on an expedition into the outback as part of a three - year cultural mapping initiative sponsored by Fortescue Metals Group.

If your belief is that our world is only 10,000 years old because God got bored and magically created all living things exactly as they are today over the course of a week, you are basically calling all the work and discoveries by archaeologists and anthropologists a bunch of baloney.

The Harvard anthropologist, who has studied the strings for 25 years, introduces himself as «one of the two or three people in the world who actually spend their entire time fretting about the khipus... these devices that look like knotted mops.»

In 2010, a team of anthropologists claimed that cutmarks on a pair of 3.4 - million - year - old animal bones found in an area of the Afar region known as Dikika were made by ancient stone - tool butchery.

Even if the ancient inhabitants of the Dmanisi site were not early members of H. erectus, there is still a problem: anthropologists have previously thought that no hominins existed outside of Africa as early as 1.85 million years ago.

To research it, Latour spent 2 years at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego, California, acting as an anthropologist observing scientists at work.

Most anthropologists interpret the disappearance of the Neanderthals some 30,000 years ago as a true extinction.

University of Arkansas anthropologist Mike Plavcan recently reexamined fossils of one of our earliest bipedal ancestors, the 4 million - year - old Australopithecus afarensis, and found hominids may not have been as marriage minded as previously thought.

Dame Jane Goodall DBE Ph.D., (born April 3, 1934) is an English primatologist, ethologist and anthropologist, probably best - known for conducting a forty - five year study of chimpanzee social and family life, as director of the Jane Goodall Institute in Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania.

The discovery of 17,000 - year - old Homo floresiensis — the «hobbit» — dispelled that notion, but many anthropologists look on H. floresiensis as an anomaly, isolated from the human — Neanderthal hegemony on the mainland.

«Fifteen years ago, somebody who used a dating service, let alone an online dating service, was regarded as somebody who had three heads,» said Helen Fisher, a biological anthropologist and chief scientific advisor to Chemistry.com, the sister site of Match.com, which pioneered online dating in 1995.

Helen Fisher, Biological Anthropologist and member of the Center for Human Evolutionary Studies at Rutgers University, has served as Chief Scientific Advisor to Match.com for several years.

Juno screenwriter Diablo Cody has described herself as a «naked Margaret Mead,» a cultural anthropologist who for years studied the rites and rituals of the stripper tribe in lieu of the nine - to - five grind.

Set many years before Alien — though it actually isn't a direct prequel (as Sir Ridley repeatedly stated)-- Prometheus finds an anthropologist, Dr. Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace), and her boyfriend Charlie Holloway (Logan Marshall - Green) ostensibly leading a scientific expedition to the moon of a distant planet in hopes that they will find the aliens who created humanity.

He also served as the chair of the Human Development Program for 20 years, recruiting several generations of developmental psychologists and cultural anthropologists to Harvard whose work reshaped the face of child development and education across the country.

Named one of The New York Times» 10 Best Books of the Year, the story follows a fictionalized version of acclaimed anthropologist Margaret Mead, recast as Nell Stone, during her field work in 1933.

But as Charles C. Mann now makes clear, archaeologists and anthropologists have spent the last thirty years proving these and many other long - held assumptions wrong.

Before Nonas began making objects, he worked for ten years as a cultural anthropologist, studying the way native cultures conceptualize space.

He practiced as an anthropologist for 10 years, teaching at Queens College and doing field research on the native peoples of northern Canada, Mexico, and Arizona.

Following his education, Nonas worked as an anthropologist for 10 years, doing field - work on American Indians in Northern Ontario, Canada, and in Northern Mexico and Southern Arizona.

Born in New York in 1936, Nonas worked for 10 years as a cultural anthropologist, studying the way indigenous cultures in Mexico, Canada, and Arizona conceptualize space, before he began sculpting in the 1960s without any formal art education.