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.
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).
These superprograms and algorithms are a far cry from the primitive, painstakingly hand-cut analog electronic studio tape pieces of Bulent Arel, or the crystalline cascades in Davidowsky's Synchronisms (one of those modernists I fought against in Rome).
A far cry from the primitive toys with which so many American boys were initiated into lifelong romances with automobiles, today's slot cars are high-tech racing machines capable of real-world speeds of 60 miles an hour in the fastest class of 1/24-scale racing.
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.
The games, far from primitive Pong-like contests, display rich colors and increasingly elaborate action.
The practice is far from confined to primitive tribes in remote regions.
Laplace imagined that the planets had condensed from the primitive solar atmosphere, which originally extended far beyond the limits of the present-day system.
Heterodonty is a primitive characteristic, and primates have evolved less far from the original pattern than most mammals.
Yet they were far from primitive: Their language has 17 tenses, and they inhabit an amazingly complex world of spirits and symbols, animals and ancestors, that must be kept in balance.
