Because anthropology developed from so many different enterprises ( see History of Anthropology ), including but not limited to fossil-hunting, exploring, documentary film-making, paleontology, primatology, antiquity dealings and curatorship, philology, etymology, genetics, regional analysis, ethnology, history, philosophy, and religious studies, it is difficult to characterize the entire field in a brief article, although attempts to write histories of the entire field have been made.

Midwives were known by many different titles in antiquity, ranging from iatrinē ( Gr. nurse ), maia ( Gr., midwife ), obstetrix ( Lat., obstetrician ), and medica ( Lat., doctor ).

The origin of the different Moony or Mooney families is lost in antiquity.

In the northeastern portion of the city there are the remains of ancient Elymian and Phoenician walls indicating different stages of settlement and occupation in antiquity.

Symmachus can refer to several different people of Roman antiquity:

Religious persecution has taken place at least since the antiquity, and has happened in different historical, geographical and social contexts.

The city is believed to be of significant antiquity and has been ruled, at different times, by the Early Pandyas, Medieval Cholas, Later Cholas, Later Pandyas, Ma ' bar Sultanate, Madurai Sultanate, Vijayanagar Empire, Madurai Nayaks, Chanda Sahib, Carnatic kingdom, and the British.

It has from antiquity been a crossroads between different cultures such as the Piacentine, Ligurian, Piedmontese, and Pavian.

This treatment of elements from Greek mythology is similar to that of the Old French literary cycle known as the Matter of Rome, which was made up of Greek and Roman mythology, together with episodes from the history of classical antiquity, focusing on military heroes like Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar-where the protagonists were anachronistically treated as knights of chivalry, not much different from the heroes of the chansons de geste.

" Cruttenden noted that in " style it was different to any houses now found on the Somali coast ," and concluded with noting the presence in " the neighbourhood of the fort above mentioned abundance of broken glass and pottery ... from which I infer that it was a place of considerable antiquity ; but, though diligent search was made, no traces of inscriptions could be discovered.

Nonetheless, as to the antiquity of this house, and the fact that it flourished in pagan times in the Poland of the monarchs, all the authors agreed, and some add that one of the Jastrzebczyks was among the twelve voivodes who at two different times ruled the whole country.

There have been many different cultural depictions of Alexander the Great since antiquity.

There have been many different cultural depictions of Alexander the Great since antiquity, including references in the Hebrew Bible in 1 Maccabees and the Book of Daniel.

In antiquity, systems of measurement were defined locally, the different units were defined independently according to the length of a king's thumb or the size of his foot, the length of stride, the length of arm or per custom like the weight of water in a keg of specific size, perhaps itself defined in hands and knuckles.

Before that, and particularly in antiquity, there was a wide variety of terms used for different types of galleys.

In different rooms, the public can learn about the prehistoric period and antiquity of the city, its formation, the Battle of Chiclana and the present day.

Although redaction criticism has existed since antiquity ( that is, the possibility of the various gospels having different theological perspectives ), three modern day scholars are regularly credited with this school's modern day development: Gunther Bornkamm, Willi Marxsen and Hans Conzelmann ( see generally: Bronkamm, Barth and Held, Tradition and Interpretation in Matthew, Marxsen, Mark the Evangelist ; Conzelmann, Theology of St Luke ).

That in turn also fostered a fixation on antiquity and negligence for the other periods of history, especially the Byzantine Empire, for an age that bore different names and was a devisor to different, and in many ways more important legacies.

Bentham follows these statements with explanations on how antiquity, religion, reproach of innovation, metaphor, fiction, fancy, antipathy and sympathy, begging the question, and imaginary law are not justification for the creation of legislature.

Alchemy is an influential philosophical tradition whose early practitioners ' claims to profound powers were known from antiquity.

It was said in antiquity that the people of Amathus were autochthonous, or " Pelasgian ".

In antiquity such works were typically entitled apologia, purporting to be self-justification rather than self-documentation.

Extracts from plants containing toxic alkaloids, such as aconitine and tubocurarine, were used since antiquity for poisoning arrows.

The greatest bridge builders of antiquity were the ancient Romans.

His two major works, Enquiry into Plants and On the Causes of Plants constitute the most important contribution to botanical science during antiquity and the Middle Ages, and held that position for some seventeen centuries after they were written.

( The letters of the Greek alphabet were used in antiquity as numerals, so Bayer's scheme might be regarded as a numbering system.

There were not, in antiquity, as there are today, single-volume collections of all of Sacred Scripture which most Christians have in codex form in their homes and places of worship.

Little of Jesus ' childhood is recorded in the canonical Gospels, however infancy Gospels were popular in antiquity.

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.

Although technically even modern paperbacks are codices, the term is now used only for manuscript ( hand-written ) books which were produced from Late antiquity until the Middle Ages.

Chemical reactions such as combustion in the fire, fermentation and the reduction of ores to metals were known since antiquity.

The inferior status to which the deuteros were relegated by authorities like Jerome is seen by some as being due to a rigid conception of canonicity, one demanding that a book, to be entitled to this supreme dignity, must be received by all, must have the sanction of Jewish antiquity, and must moreover be adapted not only to edification, but also to the " confirmation of the doctrine of the Church ".

In antiquity, dragons were mostly envisaged as serpents, but since the Middle Ages, it has become common to depict them with legs, resembling a lizard.

Beekes argued that the people later known as the Lydians and Etruscans had originally lived in northwest Anatolia, with a coastline to the Sea of Marmara, whence they were driven by the Phrygians c. 1200 BC, leaving a remnant known in antiquity as the Tyrsenoi.

The word is a compound from two Greek terms, ἢλεκτρον, ēlektron, " amber " ( as electrostatic phenomena were first described as properties of amber by the philosopher Thales ), and μαγνήτης, magnētēs, " magnet " ( the magnetic stones found in antiquity in the vicinity of the Greek city of Magnesia, in Lydia, Asia Minor ).

Electrical phenomena have been studied since antiquity, though advances in the science were not made until the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Emeralds in antiquity were mined by the Egyptians and in India and Austria.

In the 19th century Jacob Burckhardt viewed Eusebius as ' a liar ', the “ first thoroughly dishonest historian of antiquity .” Ramsay MacMullen in the 20th century regarded Eusebius's work as representative of early Christian historical accounts in which “ Hostile writings and discarded views were not recopied or passed on, or they were actively suppressed ..., matters discreditable to the faith were to be consigned to silence .” As a consequence this kind of methodology in MacMullens view has distorted modern attempts, ( e. g. Harnack, Nock, and Brady ), to describe how the Church grew in the early centuries.

In antiquity, field signs or standards were used in warfare that can be categorized as vexilloid or " flag-like ".

Most scientific treatises of classical antiquity ( in Greek ) were unavailable, leaving only simplified summaries and compilations.

It is likely that a combination of influences led to the creation of the guitar ; plucked instruments from across the Mediterranean and Europe were well known in Iberia since antiquity.