The phrase "ancient conditions" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to circumstances or situations that existed in the distant past, often in historical or archaeological contexts.
Example: "The researchers discovered artifacts that provided insight into the ancient conditions of the civilization that once thrived in this region."
Alternatives: "historical circumstances" or "primitive conditions".
Maybe the next administration will move us forward to some ancient conditions, and encourage some river rats.
That does not mean that modern species, living in the present-day, must also be tolerant to those ancient conditions – that premise is clearly absurd.
It circumvents the ear and the voice, those ancient conditions of poetry, and makes the material page an end in itself.
According to royal ideology, the king appointed the elite on the basis of merit, and in ancient conditions of high mortality the elite had to be open to recruits from outside.
Q. Is there a geological reason that a significant amount of the world's crude oil seems to be under desert lands? A. The ancient conditions necessary for the formation of petroleum were both environmental and geological, and these conditions were sometimes but not always met in areas where desert now covers the surface.
"River Rats," his 1906 depiction of lower-class boys playing on the East River piers at the base of a muddy embankment, gives us a perfect view of the old shorlines' "ancient conditions," not to mention the primeval reaction of young humans to a cool river in the summer—swimming.
"Humanity's ancient condition of scarcity was going to end, imminently," Mr. Spufford writes.
New research suggests a peculiar, and slightly painful, solution to the ancient condition of baldness: Yank out whatever hair you have left.
SZ crosses all cultures at a relatively high prevalence (0.5 1%) [2], [3], and seems to be an ancient condition.
Additional research, based on, e.g., infection experiments or genotyping, is needed to clarify whether a host jump recently occurred in M. tragopogonis-pratensis, too, or whether or not a relatively low host specificity is an ancient condition in this parasite.
These directly reflect their environment of deposition and may be used to interpret ancient environmental conditions.
