The world in which men wore red neckties to signal their homosexuality to each other or taught themselves to speak and walk more "manfully" or risked arrest and, in turn, social and financial ruin just to be with people like themselves, now seems as archaic as segregated water fountains.
According to Reagan Waskom, chairman of the Colorado State University Water Center and director of the Colorado Water Institute, Colorado has long taken a "kind of archaic" approach to water laws, in part because of the state's arid climate and in part because its namesake river plays a major role in providing water to much of the Southwest and Mexico.
Eventually, he produced mysterious etchings of women and birds and jewel-tinted humanoid insects; lithographs of girls with dogs; strange, disembodied heads of women floating in water, like archaic fragments from the depths; bouncing, vividly coloured, nude Sporting Women; and haunting drawings of Companions and Characters in Search of a Story.
It might have meant something else during the Moorish occupation of Spain, when an archaic version — made with bread, water, garlic and oil — was probably going strong.
Sometimes it is a problem and some neighbourhoods flood; sometimes it is a blessing because our water system is archaic and we rely on the rain to fill our reservoirs.
The gene that lets the rice plant survive after being submerged in water comes from an archaic rice strain from before the dawn of agriculture, discovered by geneticists 50 years ago.
Within the ancient Ionian city of Ephesos on the western coast of modern Turkey, monumental buildings and remnants of the urban water supply system survive from archaic, Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine times.
Changes evident in the Soconusco at 1000 cal BC parallel transformations in both highland and lowland regions of Mesoamerica when ceramic-using villagers expanded into new environments, farther away from the permanent water sources favored by Late Archaic and Early Formative peoples.
The water lilies rose in a silent and archaic-looking movement, one limb at a time from the knot of root that we had pushed into the mud.
However, the control of the water is the subject of permanent struggles through archaic practices which can't adapt to the requirements of modern life.
