Ancient anchors consisted of large stones, basketfuls of stones, sacks filled with sand, or logs of wood loaded with lead; these held the vessel merely by their weight and by friction along the bottom.
Over the last year, more than 40 archaeological sites, including wooden shipwrecks, cannons, ancient anchors, prehistoric fish traps and more recent small fishing vessels have been noted.
We can infer that our sample contains both types of material, with a number of ancient varieties anchoring the main clusters (founders), and recent breeds complicating structure resolution.
Italy attained a unified ethnolinguistic, political, and cultural physiognomy only after the Roman conquest, yet its most ancient peoples remain anchored in the names of the regions of Roman Italy Latium, Campania, Apulia, Bruttium, Lucania, Samnium, Picenum, Umbria, Etruria, Venetia, and Liguria.
It is that their approach, anchored in ancient knowledge and arched toward a habitable future, is how the world can be saved: by loving the natural world and living economies more than mere money and profit.
Anchored by the ancient Drum and Bell Towers, the $73 million redevelopment will include courtyard homes for the rich, a "timekeeping" museum and an underground mall, presumably well stocked with Rolexes and Cartiers -- or perhaps their more affordable counterfeit cousins.
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Syria has become an unflinching contest for regional supremacy, anchored largely by the ancient regional power struggle between Tehran and Riyadh, but fuelled by more contemporary grievances.
They can act as reporters in the field, anchors, experts on their ancient culture, the mummies themselves, and any other roles in order to relay their information.
So maybe that wistful sense of time passing, of seeking anchors in nature and ancient monuments, isn't something sensed only by 21st-century viewers.
