In so far as this goal is achieved, the society becomes more fluid, artificial barriers to social mobility are reduced, and people at the lower end of the social hierarchy share more fully in the material and cultural goods of society.

Artifacts, faunal remains, and human altered landscapes are evidence of the cultural and material lives of past societies.

Archaeologists examine these material remains in order to deduce patterns of past human behavior and cultural practices.

Human time on Earth is divided up into relevant cultural traditions based on material, such as the Paleolithic and the Neolithic, of particular use in archaeology.

Archaeological cultural units such as Ancestral Pueblo, Hohokam, Patayan or Mogollon are used by archaeologists to define material culture similarities and differences that may identify prehistoric socio-cultural units, equivalent to modern societies or peoples.

Interventive Conservation refers to any act by a conservator that involves a direct interaction between the conservator and the cultural material.

In the nineteenth century, Thomas Bulfinch combined these into a single synoptic view of material which Andrew Stewart calls a " historically-intractable farrago of ' evidence ', heavily tinged with Athenian cultural chauvinism ".

Polynesians also share cultural traditions, such as religion, social organization, myths, and material culture.

Der Eigene concentrated on cultural and scholarly material, and may have had an average of around 1500 subscribers per issue during its lifetime, although the exact numbers are uncertain.

The origin of the stability of inequalities is material ( personal possessions one is able to obtain ) and is also cultural, rooted either in varying child-rearing practices that are geared to socialization according to social class and economic position.

In fact, children of well-off parents generally receive better schooling and benefit from material, cultural, and genetic inheritances.

Though by no means a unified movement with a set of shared axioms or methodologies, Post-structuralism emphasizes the ways in which different aspects of a cultural order, from its most banal material details to its most abstract theoretical exponents, determine one another ( rather than espousing a series of strict, uni-directional, cause and effect relationships – see Reductionism – or resorting to Epiphenomenalism ).

For thousands of years, the polar bear has been a key figure in the material, spiritual, and cultural life of Arctic indigenous peoples, and polar bears remain important in their cultures.

The archaeological remains that are considered to date from the time of Solomon are notable for the fact that Canaanite material culture appears to have continued unabated ; there is a distinct lack of magnificent empire, or cultural development-indeed comparing pottery from areas traditionally assigned to Israel with that of the Philistines points to the Philistines having been significantly more sophisticated.

He would often critique pieces of cultural material to expose how bourgeois society used them to impose its values upon others.

I refer instead to a political, economic and cultural system in which whites overwhelmingly control power and material resources, conscious and unconscious ideas of white superiority and entitlement are widespread, and relations of white dominance and non-white subordination are daily reenacted across a broad array of institutions and social settings.

The discipline has drawn much from cultural ecology, a form of analysis that showed how culture depends upon, and is influenced by, the material conditions of society ( political ecology has largely eclipsed cultural ecology as a form of analysis according to Walker, 2005 ).

The idea of a ' standard ' may be contrasted with the quality of life, which takes into account not only the material standard of living, but also other more intangible aspects that make up human life, such as leisure, safety, cultural resources, social life, physical health, environmental quality issues, etc.

The Silk Road gave rise to the clusters of military states of nomadic origins in North China, invited the Nestorian, Manichaean, Buddhist, and later Islamic religions into Central Asia and China, created the influential Khazar Federation and at the end of its glory, brought about the largest continental empire ever: the Mongol Empire, with its political centers strung along the Silk Road ( Beijing in North China, Karakorum in central Mongolia, Sarmakhand in Transoxiana, Tabriz in Northern Iran, Sarai and Astrakhan in lower Volga, Solkhat in Crimea, Kazan in Central Russia, Erzurum in eastern Anatolia ), realizing the political unification of zones previously loosely and intermittently connected by material and cultural goods.

During this trip, and in follow-up workshops and other trips, 80 artists created a collection of paintings, contemporary cultural objects and documentary material.

As long as his material is Americana, can in some way be ascribed to the masses and appears `` democratic '' to his audience, he remains satisfied.

Archaeology is the study of the human past through its material remains.

Ethnoarchaeology is a type of archaeology that studies the practices and material remains of living human groups in order to gain a better understanding of the evidence left behind by past human groups, who are presumed to have lived in similar ways.

* Identification of archaeological cultures: the material remains found at dwelling sites, burial grounds, and other places where people left traces of their activity.

This suggests the ancient people were also more diverse than their material remains may suggest.

Traditional archaeology has not been able to unequivocally match individual archaeological sites as belonging to the Bastarnae, whilst " new " archaeology has moved away from trying to ascribe material remains to distinct " ethnic " groupings.

Whether this increase in ' status ' is real, or just a by-product of increasingly complex material assemblages remains to be convincingly validated.

At the moment, it is not known how the material is produced or if it remains stable without applied pressure, however, there is conjecture that it is possible to produce a new stable state of matter by compressing ultracold deuterium in a Rydberg state.

The procedure was sometimes practiced in musicals when the actor had an unsatisfactory singing voice, and remains in use to enable the screening of audio-visual material to a mass audience in countries where viewers do not speak the same language as the original performers.

No other early sees are documented, and the material remains of early church structures are far to seek.

Dating of remains to the biblical history is made difficult by the Bible's lack of datable events and its unreliable internal chronology ; the interpretation of remains has been influenced by religious and nationalistic arguments, as evidenced by arguments over burials from the highland settlement phase ; and no material remains have been found which can reliably separate Israelite from non-Israelite ( Canaanite ) sites in the earliest period.

< p > In winter, the material has yang potency within it, so it remains active even after being kept from thirty to forty days.

These negative qualities provided extensive material for fiction writers in the Victorian era, and John remains a recurring character within Western popular culture, primarily as a villain in films and stories depicting the Robin Hood legends.

Originating in the Superman radio show series, the material is usually shown as having been created from the radioactive remains of Superman's native planet Krypton, and generally has detrimental effects on Superman and other Kryptonians.

Using lithographic turpentine, the printer then removes any excess of the greasy drawing material, but a hydrophobic molecular film of it remains tightly bonded to the surface of the stone, rejecting the gum arabic and water, but ready to accept the oily ink.

Ships wrecked in the sea have probably not survived, although remains of cargo ( particularly bronze material ) have been discovered, such as those at the Salcombe B site.

Archaeologists in particular use the term to denote a record of material remains that is suspected of having formed during an extended period but that cannot be resolved in such a way that temporally discrete traces can be recognized as such.

He and also Mr. Cowley and Mr. Warren have fallen to the temptation which besets many of us to read into our authors -- Nathaniel Hawthorne, for example, and Herman Melville -- protests against modernism, material progress, and science which are genuine protests of our own but may not have been theirs.

When combined with the metaphysical notion that pure forms of this universe are best appreciated when least embodied in a material substratum, it becomes clear that while earth will be dross on a scale of material-formal ratios, celestial bodies will be of a subtle, quickened, ethereal existence, in whose embodiment pure form will be the dominant component and matter will be absent or remain subsidiary.

Because God is what He is, the laws of the universe, material and spiritual, are what they are.

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In normal use weights are hung on the end of the tape and allowed to pull the tape and the material to be tested between the blocks.

Hence it is difficult to conceive of a packing of the atoms in this material in which the oxygen atoms are far from geometrical equivalence.

Asteroidal collisions are also thought to contribute material.

This second conclusion, independently arrived at by independent study of material from two pairs of language families as different and remote from one another as these four are, cannot be ignored.

There simply is not enough material available on the types of job skills that are in demand and the types of training programs that are required or most suitable.

Fundamentally, both these types, the amateur and the collector, are uncritical and many of them don't distinguish well between real folklore and bogus material.

Both are primarily concerned with the uses that can be made of the material that the collector has found.

We are looking inside the atom and seeing there a universe which is not material but something beyond the material, a universe that in a word is not matter but music.

Pianists who are serious about their work are likely to know the interesting material contained in Schubert's Sonatas.

Some are detritivores and eat dead organic material.

Generally, there is no trial in an appellate court, only consideration of the record of the evidence presented to the trial court and all the pre-trial and trial court proceedings are reviewed — unless the appeal is by way of re-hearing, new evidence will usually only be considered on appeal in " very " rare instances, for example if that material evidence was unavailable to a party for some very significant reason such as prosecutorial misconduct.

Taking into account the material from which the beams and walls are made, choosing the attachments may prove difficult.

* the mummy type-where androids are made of " dead things " or " stiff, inanimate, natural material ", such as mummies, puppets, dolls and statues