Processed meat included meats that were preserved by smoking, curing, salting, or addition of preservatives.
Since most SSFs were preserved by being covered quickly with phosphate and this method of preservation is mainly limited to the Late Ediacaran and Early Cambrian periods, the animals that made them may actually have arisen earlier and persisted after this time span.
Some 98 lines of the poem were preserved by Athenaeus.
The museum's examples were preserved by enthusiasts across the country then collected here.
Apart from these seven, quite a number of shorter poems were preserved by later scholars.
Though Carneades left no writings, his teachings were preserved by Cleitomachus.
"They were preserved by great-granddaughters who knew they'd been passed on something to treasure," he added.
A great number of pre-Islamic poems, dating from the mid-6th century, were preserved by oral tradition.
Finding no food in such inland wanderings, the crabeaters eventually died, and their leathery carcasses were preserved by the coldness and aridity of the climate.
The masks (effigies, or imagines) of ancestors, modelled in wax, were preserved by patrician families and were displayed on ceremonial occasions and carried in funeral processions.
Ancient cultural traditions were preserved by the clergy, who also authored the few books that have survived from the early centuries of the Reconquista.
