Sentence examples for material cultures from inspiring English sources

All of this was precisely captured for the Shelflife project, a material cultures research study co-sponsored by the charity and the University of Edinburgh's art department.

It was proclaimed "a masterpiece that uniquely brings together the highest expressions of the material cultures of the Mediterranean world".

Unesco says the second century Villa Adriana, 15 miles east of Rome, "uniquely brings together the highest expressions of the material cultures of the ancient Mediterranean world".

In looking at these populations with the available evidence (skeletons, DNA, material cultures, languages), the tendency has been to think of them as discrete peoples; otherwise they would not be identifiable as different from one another.

Therefore, all Native Americans were thought to be "related," though even those maintaining this view were troubled by, among other things, the diversity of languages, physical appearances and material cultures in pre-Columbian America.

"These sites constitute dynamic spaces for experimentation, and their emerging capabilities for new material cultures are what we see as most significant for aspirations to post-consumer societies," says Adrian Smith, professor of technology and society at the University of Sussex's Science Policy Research Unit and the event's organiser.

Gwen Floyd, a 23-year-old Texan, transferred in from Brown, where she had studied material culture and cultural history.

Only the Minotaur myth and Minoan material culture survive.

CHANGING taste is a basic factor in American material culture.

America's material culture is homespun and plainspoken.

To scholars of material culture, objects are never neutral.