Sentence examples for primitive artifacts from inspiring English sources

The history of computing chronicles great innovations quickly turning into primitive artifacts.

And like Michael Rockefeller he vanishes during a trip to New Guinea to collect some primitive artifacts and becomes the subject of an intensive and ultimately futile search.

Zoomorphic relief decoration, derived from a vast range of animal forms, is common on primitive artifacts and on Romanesque churches, especially the wooden stave churches of Scandinavia.

Just as primitive artifacts placed in the context of high modernism seem to anticipate it, or interpret it, so a vintage film clip set online amid the YouTube flotsam can take on entirely new meaning.

For decades, Dr. Jerrold Post has been treating patients in the usual way, providing fifty-minute doses of psychotherapy in his home office in Bethesda, Maryland, surrounded by the requisite framed diplomas, primitive artifacts, and Kleenex boxes.

By Jane Mayer For decades, Dr. Jerrold Post has been treating patients in the usual way, providing fifty-minute doses of psychotherapy in his home office in Bethesda, Maryland, surrounded by the requisite framed diplomas, primitive artifacts, and Kleenex boxes.

But, if reading had evolved so that it only ever took place on a computer screen, would we look at the book as some primitive artifact, or as a marvelous and superior technology to be celebrated for its high-resolution user interface, portability and convenience?

Free-standing sculptures -- many of them replicas of ancient works or artifacts from primitive societies -- dot the hallways and classrooms.

Examining photographs of the tools from northern China, Dr. Philip Rightmire, a paleoanthropologist at Binghamton University in New York, said the artifacts were primitive and comparable in style and manufacture to those excavated at the Georgian site.

In recent years, population and evolutionary biologists have questioned the traditional view that parasite-mediated morbidity and mortality¿virulence¿is a primitive character and an artifact of recent associations between parasites and their hosts.

Are the nonbelievers right, and is religion at its core an empty undertaking, a misdirection, a vestigial artifact of a primitive mind?