Far from the "primitive" hunter-gatherers they are often cast as, Gammage showed that the original inhabitants of Australia employed a complex programme of "firestick farming" to systematically regulate plant growth and the movement of prey animals.
A magnificent robe of embroidered silk in "Works From Yoruba: Nine Centuries of African Art and Thought" is one indication that far from being primitive, the precolonial Yoruban culture, headed for centuries by royal dynasties, was eminently sophisticated, patronizing the creation of sumptuous artworks.
If he had no place within the great art movements of his time, he was also far from a "primitive" with the simple urge to celebrate urban life, argues Paul S. D'Ambrosio, chief curator of the association, who did his Ph.D. thesis on Fasanella's work and who put together the current show.
As might be expected, given the location of the section adjacent to Himalayan sources but far from the primitive sediment supply seen in the trunk river, εNd values in those deposits are the most negative of any in the compiled dataset, reflective of their Himalayan sources (Najman et al. 2009).
The practice is far from confined to primitive tribes in remote regions.
This has especially been true in the British theatre since Paul Scofield's granite performance for Peter Brook in 1962, when the play, far from representing some kind of primitive, barbaric past, seemed suddenly, frighteningly, to speak of our own time, godless, loveless, alienated, arbitrary.
"When we decided to do the giant piece, the big car, I also wanted to experiment with something, to try to work with a different material, and since I think my work is kind of dirty - dirty graffiti, primitive graffiti - far from what Street Art can represent - I think that my work needs more knowledge about the history of graffiti, about the letters, about the texture, about accumulation.
In a more recent paper, the Szostack lab explored the advantage of having a few mol % of diacyl lipids, but even under these conditions, the plausible primitive membrane remains very far from what is studied here.
