For our present purpose, however, the important point is that a hierarchical pattern is what we expect to see if the objects being classified have originated by a process of branching.
A votive object bearing his name originates from Meroe.
Where the objects on view originated in Britain, they are self-evidently a part of its heritage.
There are graphics relating the history of the empire's governors as well as a map of modern Michoacán indicating the locations from which the displayed objects originated.
The collection includes some 2,000 objects dating from c. 800 CE and originating in a variety of places in North and South America.
It was not clear whether the objects originated from the shuttle or the space station.
The objects in the show originated in areas as far west as Ireland and as far east as the Chinese border.
Thus each object becomes intelligible only through its opposite and originates out of it and with it simultaneously (Logos, p. 303).
Olivia also had the ability to discern if an object originated in the alternate dimension due to a "glimmer" that only she could see.
They are therefore assuming that these objects originate from some previously unknown or unidentified technology, possibly outside the earth.