In Auel's series, two cultures vie for resources, space, and survival: the Clan, which is what Neanderthals call themselves, and the Cro-Magnons ( whom Ayla, with her Clan upbringing, generally refers to as " The Others ").

The fifth book of Jean Auel's Earth's Children series, The Shelters of Stone, 2002, is set in this region of modern day France, during this period.

As in all her books, Auel's archaeological research is detailed, and the huts of mammoth bones which she describes the Mamutoi building are based on real finds.

* The threat of the Föhn drives the protagonists Ayla and Jondalar in Jean M. Auel's The Plains of Passage over a glacier before the spring melt.

In addition, Auel's series incorporates a number of recent archeological and anthropological theories.

The Mamutoi are Auel's nod to the tool culture identified as the Eastern Aurignacian.

No one could be more devoted than he to the American Congress as an institution and more aware of its historical significance in the political history of the world, and I shall never forget his moving talks, delivered in simple yet eloquent words, upon the meaning of our jobs as Representatives in the operation of representative government and their importance in the context of today's assault upon popular government.

That means that, if we are to achieve a new standard of leadership, we must think in terms of the total context of our situation.

In the context of larger ethical discussions on moral action and judgment, Buddhism is characterized by the belief that negative ( unhappy ) consequences of our actions derive not from punishment or correction based on moral judgment, but from the law of karma, which functions like a natural law of cause and effect.

In a current context, one might judge a Lamborghini to be beautiful partly because it is desirable as a status symbol, or we might judge it to be repulsive partly because it signifies for us over-consumption and offends our political or moral values.

… Creation myths explain in metaphorical terms our sense of who we are in the context of the world, and in so doing they reveal our real priorities, as well as our real prejudices.

In the context of psycho-therapy Hermes is our inner friendliness bringing together the disparate and perhaps isolated core elements of our selves belonging to the realms of the other gods ;

In the following classic examples, as humans, we are able to interpret the prepositional phrase according to the context because we use our world knowledge, stored in our lexicons:

He says that " We find ourselves not only in a world other than our own, but identifying with a living, breathing individual who is operating within its context, and thinking and acting according to its terms.

And like most people we'd like to see the world a better place, which in this context translates into our working to reduce the risk of potentially disastrous climatic change.

In the context of the global struggle for the release of political prisoners in our country, our movement took a deliberate decision to profile Nelson Mandela as the representative personality of these prisoners, and therefore to use his personal political biography, including the persecution of his then wife, Winnie Mandela, dramatically to present to the world and the South African community the brutality of the apartheid system.

He added: " We are in some danger of resting our position too exclusively upon the existence, the nature and the wishes of the inhabitants of the Falkland Islands ... if the population of the Falkland Islands did not desire to be British, the principle that the Queen wishes no unwilling subjects would long ago have prevailed ; but we should create great difficulties for ourselves in other contexts, as well as in this context, if we rested our action purely and exclusively on the notion of restoring tolerable, acceptable conditions and self-determination to our fellow Britons on the Falkland Islands ....

Therefore, through social constructs, one can shape rhetorical works, and in turn, the works can shape the social context: " we create our contexts as we create our texts " ( Bawarshi 70 ).

In the context of pornography, Catharine MacKinnon argued that use of the word acts to reinforce a dehumanisation of women by reducing them to mere body parts ; and in 1979 Andrea Dworkin described the word as reducing women to " the one essential – ' cunt: our essence ... our offence '".

In the organizational context, learning how to unlearn is vital because what we assume to be true has merged into our identity.

:: Example: ... the term ' Fifth Amendment ' in the context of our time is commonly regarded as being synonymous with the privilege against self-incrimination.

According to one scholar, this " was not only a dramatic change in the function of art, it was the context in which our present concept of art, what the literary critic M. H. Abrams called " art as such ", first began to take shape ", replacing a " construction model " where art theory concerned itself with how the maker created his work, with a " contemplation model " concerned with the effect of the finished work on a " lone perceiver " or viewer.

Functionalists like Monroe Beardsley argue that whether or not a piece counts as art depends on what function it plays in a particular context ; the same Greek vase may play a non-artistic function in one context ( carrying wine ), and an artistic function in another context ( helping us to appreciate the beauty of the human figure ).

Being is also understood as one's " state of being ," and hence its common meaning is in the context of human ( personal ) experience, with aspects that involve expressions and manifestations coming from an innate " being ", or personal character.

Several topics that might be covered here are instead covered there because much more can be said about them in a human context.

In his article Observations on the marital metaphor of YHWH and Israel in its ancient Israelite context: general considerations and particular images in Hosea 1. 2, Ben Zvi describes the role of the Gomer in the marriage metaphor as one of the “ central attributes of the ideological image of a human marriage that was shared by the male authorship and the primary and intended male readership as building blocks for their imagining of the relationship .”

In antiquity, Greek reports of cannibalism, ( often called anthropophagy in this context ) were related to distant non-Hellenic barbarians, or else relegated in Greek mythology to the ' primitive ' chthonic world that preceded the coming of the Olympian gods: see the explicit rejection of human sacrifice in the cannibal feast prepared for the Olympians by Tantalus of his son Pelops.

Gad Barzilai has accordingly offered how to protect human rights, individual rights, and multiculturalism in inter-communal context that allows the generating of cultural relativism.

Collectivism is a basic cultural element that exists as the reverse of individualism in human nature ( in the same way high context culture exists as the reverse of low context culture ), and stresses the priority of group goals over individual goals and the importance of cohesion within social groups ( such as an " in-group ", in what specific context it is defined ).

Liberal Christians tend to regard the Bible as the record of human doings, composed of humans encountering the Divine within their specific historical context.

Ethnologists and anthropologists who study these myths point out that in the modern context theologians try to discern humanity's meaning from revealed truths and scientists investigate cosmology with the tools of empiricism and rationality, but creation myths define human reality in very different terms.

Others reject this view, as they hold that the context of the entire set of Biblical laws includes those laws that restrict them to already born human beings.

One core result of Holzkamp's historical and comparative analysis of human reproductive action, perception and cognition is a very specific concept of meaning that identifies symbolic meaning as historically and culturally constructed, purposeful conceptual structures that humans create in close relationship to material culture and within the context of historically specific formations of social reproduction.

FT is not a “ law of nature ,” and the pattern is influenced by national context ( for example, human population density, stage of development, structure of the economy ), global economic forces, and government policies.

Marx sought to base human social organization within the context of the material reproduction of their daily lives, which he calls sensuous practice in his early works ( Marx 1844, 1845 ).

Historically, where comparative psychology researches animal behaviour in the context of what is known about human psychology, ethology researches animal behaviour in the context of what is known about animal anatomy, physiology, neurobiology, and phylogenetic history.

For example, the sentence " The coat is red " has no observer, the sentence " We see the coat as red " ( where " we " indicates observers ) appears more specific in context as regards light waves and colour as determined by modern science, that is, colour results from a reaction in the human brain.

" He chose the context of psychotherapy to " sidestep the problem of giving the program a data base of real-world knowledge ", the therapeutic situation being one of the few real human situations in which a human being can reply to a statement with a question that indicates very little specific knowledge of the topic under discussion.

There is no grammatically required indefinite article: homo means either " human being " or " a human being ", depending on the context, and similarly the plural homoj means " human beings " or " some human beings ".

Ruth Benedict made a distinction, relevant in this context, between " guilt " societies ( e. g., medieval Europe ) with an " internal reference standard ", and " shame " societies ( e. g., Japan, " bringing shame upon one's ancestors ") with an " external reference standard ", where people look to their peers for feedback on whether an action is " acceptable " or not ( also known as " group-think ").

Indeed, in order to understand the historical context that led to the development of these paradigmatic picaresque novels in Spain during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, it is essential to take into consideration the circumstances surrounding the lives of conversos, whose ancestors had been Jewish, and whose New Christian faith was subjected to close scrutiny and mistrust.

* In River Out of Eden, Richard Dawkins discusses human ancestry in the context of a river of genes and shows that Mitochondrial Eve is one of the many common ancestors we can trace back to via different gene pathways.

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It referred to those who were considered pure " Old Christians ", without Muslim or Jewish ancestors, or within the context of the empire ( New Spain and Portuguese India ) those without indigenous Amerindian or Asian ancestry.

This beer plays a very important when someone contacts their ancestors ( known as amadlozi ) and plays a central role in the social context and so is often used during customary weddings, funerals, and imbizos ( traditional meetings ).