Sentence examples for archaic characteristics from inspiring English sources

Advancing a theory of linguistic differentiation, he suggested that languages that developed farther away from a centre of common origin are less disturbed by changes initiated at the point of origin and may retain archaic characteristics in common.

Calabria, alone, has 30 traditional musical instruments, some of which have strongly archaic characteristics and are largely extinct elsewhere in Italy.

At the same site, Golondrina materials stratified near the base of a rock-shelter deposit were radiocarbon dated at 9000 BP Projectile points featuring more Archaic characteristics, including early barbed and early stemmed, share an overlapping chronology with Golondrina.

Dr. Trinkaus said the teeth were enormous by modern standards, an archaic characteristic closer to Neanderthals than modern humans.

The jugum on the forewings of the adult is an archaic wing coupling mechanism; further primitive characteristics include, as adults, the lack of mouthparts, large spacing between the fore- and hindwings, and the arrangement of the female genitalia.

These languages diverged from the main group of Mongolian dialects and to this day retain archaic features characteristic of Middle Mongolian that have been lost in other Mongolian languages; e.g., many retain /f/ and /h/ from Proto-Altaic */p/ (an asterisk identifies a sound as a hypothetical, reconstructed form), as well as unassimilated vowel sequences.

Today Phrasikleia and the handsome kouros that locals called "her brother" stand united still in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, their characteristic archaic smiles no less beguiling than the Mona Lisa's.

Still, it is intriguing to find that a method considered by many as archaic represents colonoscopy performance characteristics that are increasingly sought - higher intubation rates, less sedation without compromising patients' report on pain and less time spent on intubation.

These changes in diet and settlement and the development of trade are some of the defining characteristics of the Archaic cultures.

The anatomic changes between Neanderthal fossil remains and the remains of early modern humans involved largely a loss of the sturdiness that was characteristic of all archaic humans.

It's a challenge against the same archaic mindset behind pseudo-sciences like Phrenology--that certain superficial characteristics correlate or result from belonging to any specific gender, race, or sexuality. .