In places like Syria and southern Iraq that are now being dried out by the Turkish dams, irrigation is primitive - often involving nothing more than water trucks pumping water out of the Euphrates and driving it over to fields that are often less than a kilometer away.
The creature's discovery has astounded scientists because their age puts them within two recognized groups of pterodactyls -- primitive long-tailed forms and advanced short-tail forms -- and they display characteristics of both.
It is from a class known as the carbonaceous chondrites - primitive, carbon-rich meteorites that contain organic compounds such as amino acids.
Two long-beaked echidnas, primitive egg-laying mammals, even allowed scientists to pick them up and bring them back to their camp to be studied, he added.
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Findings from the second fossil were even more revealing - inside were the preserved remains of two primitive crow-sized birds, called Confuciusorni.
Now, in the infectiously primitive talking-animal world of "Fantastic Mr. Fox", he's become an ironic realist.
He said the study has also confirmed that the bristles on this "rather primitive flesh-eating dinosaur... really were feathers".
It was then that I saw that the settlement had been constructed on gradually descending levels separated by primitive stone-paved walkways.
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Essentially a robotic invention kit, Mindstorms comes complete with a programmable CPU, motors, primitive inter-robot networking, sensors and a software development suite.
They have such natural, primitive instincts - either love, or food.
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.
Primitive flywheel-powered buses appeared in petrol-strapped wartime Europe.
The spacecraft's data indicates the asteroid has a very primitive surface - rather like the chondritic meteorites that are sometimes picked up on Earth and which are assumed to have come from bodies that experienced no melting or differentiation.
This was a much more primitive, not-so-well organized group which we disrupted in any case.
He gave Iiguez, now 43, the mandate to develop Cemex's then- primitive information technology department.
Two reproduced paintings, in particular, stand out at the Field and demonstrate the far-from-primitive eye of the artists.
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It is deliberately primitive, stripped-down, back to basics, though sometimes melody creeps in.
On Oct. 4, 1957, a primitive, 100-pound metal ball was sent hurtling into orbit around Earth, beeping back radio signals like taunts.
Some scientists suspect Mars once sheltered primitive, bacteria-like organisms and previous missions found evidence Mars at one time boasted ample quantities of water.
As they report in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, the 160m-year-old Darwinopterus, which has been dug up in Liaoning Province, catches the flying reptiles in transition between the primitive, long-tailed forms exemplified by Rhamphorhynchus and the advanced, almost tailless creatures typified by Pteranodon.
Thus was born "Winky Dink and You" -- a primitive and rudimentary first step into what would eventually become the screen-obsessed world in which we live today: millions of people endlessly tapping away, sending and receiving messages, relentlessly responding to what glows in front of their eyes, regarding their screen as almost a person, a friend.
But it's still early days and Feringa says he feels a bit like the Wright Brothers, likening the nano car to their "fairly awkward-looking primitive plane" when compared to the passenger jets of today.
Now, researchers say they've come up with primitive robots that can self-replicate.
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.
In the fort's courtyard are several small wooden boats and traditional barasti (palm-leaf) houses, including the primitive Al Kaimah, and the summerhouse Al Areesh with traditional wind-tower (barajeel) "air conditioning".
More often, cross-selling involves such primitive techniques as displaying insurance brochures in bank branches.
It is possible that it may not have been a true woolly mammoth - but a more primitive species.
In 1999, Danish geologist Minik Rosing presented evidence of a chemical signature for primitive lifeforms in 3.7-billion-year-old rocks from Isua, Greenland.
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Without Saint-Nazaire, a primitive part of him was deprived of the imaginary care that had kept him sane as a child.
Whatever the cause, this "urbanization of poverty" has resulted in the large-scale erection of primitive forms of shelter, either on public land or on private land owned by absentee landlords.
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