Two reproduced paintings, in particular, stand out at the Field and demonstrate the far-from-primitive eye of the artists.
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According to Dr Smit, the multiple layers were the result of waves from the impact sloshing around in the primitive Gulf of Mexico and passing over individual sites several times.
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Which is why a week like the one just past is such a sobering reminder that we are always just an unanticipated disaster away from a trip into the primitive America that existed before.
Supporters of the water birth technique say primitive reflexes keep babies from taking a breath until they are removed from the water.
African photographers were in the vanguard of the art, from even its most primitive days.
"There are primitive features in the skeleton of floresiensis which for me suggests that it comes from quite a primitive form of human: one that may have been around two million years ago rather than one million years ago".
Soay sheep are primitive domestic sheep and originate from the island of Soay.
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It is from a class known as the carbonaceous chondrites - primitive, carbon-rich meteorites that contain organic compounds such as amino acids.
John Erickson makes something of the comparison between the great tsarist offensive in 1916 under Brusilov and Zhukov's operation in 1944 to clear the Germans from Belarus, showing in the process that the armies of both wars were not the primitive, poorly led, forces often depicted in western literature.
Their time in Corfu was mainly one of simple happiness: isolated, primitive, strangely serene, removed from the wider reality of international events.
Although a similarly "primitive" construction, the Tangaroa benefited from more recent research on ancient sailing techniques and had a broader sail, adjustable centerboards and a hardwood cabin.
Findings from the second fossil were even more revealing - inside were the preserved remains of two primitive crow-sized birds, called Confuciusorni.
From the beginning, the silent cinema was an art devoted to physical risk and to primitive passions, to rage, lust, ambition, and obsession (silence made emotions more extreme in many ways), and it produced obsession in its huge audience.
The primitive "Avebury Stone Circle, Wiltshire" (1945) emerges from a fog, the grazing sheep as archaic as the megaliths.
My tastes evolved, from primitive through shallow to a kind of pseudo-sophistication that was long on the pseudo and short on any clue to what riches the movies could offer.
Last week, scientists announced the results from the first drilling: Curiosity had discovered an ancient Martian environment that could have been favorable for primitive microbial life.
Its maker, a Dutch alchemist called Cornelius van Drebbel, is thought to have used a primitive oxygen-supply system, based on saltpetre, to prevent the crew from asphyxiating.
Why would a burlap-suited guy in a primitive society, thousands of years from now on what used to be Hawaii, visualize the embodiment of pure evil in Victorian fashion?
The current generation of virtual humans are laden with data but will look primitive a few years from now.
One primitive example of such an arrangement is the digital audio tape recorder, which will not make copies from copies.
Some Masters of the Universe have such rotten hubris, such selfish, self-aggrandizing drives they act like primitive warriors from a more violent time.
F-secure's researchers also report the software used to mimic Barclay's and Halifax's banking sites is a primitive phishing kit from 2004--a sign that Storm's innovative creators are renting out their real estate to less savvy cyber-criminals.
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