I can almost hear the voice of my genes singing the sagas of the ancestral past.

The language, despite being virtually useless in the daily lives of the out-islanders, enforces the deep ties they have to their ancestral past.

Pira-pirana Indians see themselves as existing within an ordered cosmos created in the ancestral past.

Modern hunter-gatherer tribes, which presumably reflect at least some elements of our ancestral past, live in groups of about 150.

If it were possible I would reach back farther still- into the very first years of my childhood, and beyond them into distant ancestral past.

On the other hand, you should also mention other families from these places whose descendants represents the link with the ancestral past.

The basis is a respect and obedience to-wards the older individuals and the ancestral past.

Each week the "Friends" star and her crew take a different celebrity on a journey to discover their ancestral past.

The 1876 Centennial celebrations made the American public aware of its ancestral past.

As the product of a long ancestral past, I began to worry about my own dark history.