Sentences with phrase «by flint»

We have come to see strange wall markings that may have been a tactile code left by flint miners during the last ice age.

Sparks are beaten out by the flints striking together.

Not exact matches

THERE»S MORE TO LEARN FROM FLINT «A job that was taken by a robot 30 years ago... is not coming back, no matter what the president of the United States says.»

In my theology class, I tell my students that a Spirit - empowered Jesus goes to this village, not that one, heals this woman, not that one, allows himself to be interrupted by people along the way, even as he sets his face like flint toward the cross.

Like Thoreau, the examiner of lost and fragile surfaces of flint, we are only by indirection students of man.

In their own words: «With all the sophisticated knowledge of recent times, no machinery has yet been developed that grinds grains into flour quite as well as our flint - hard quartz millstones quarried in France and used by discriminating millers since early Roman times.»

Using a multiple embossing idea first pioneered by Beatson Clark, Pont has added the white flint 250 ml BBQ sauce bottle with standard 43 mm twist - off neck finish to its general sale range.

Bottles used come in flint, green and amber, using glass supplied by UG, Rexam, Rockware and Quinn.

Younger whiskies are produced by other manufacturers using more commercial flint, Gary said.

By ANDREW FLINT, DAVID SANSUN & JAMES NICKELS, 13 Apr — A little bit later than usual due to the CSKA Moscow — Arsenal match, here is our RFN TOTW for Week 25 of the RFPL.

The scientists argue that the jump in the frequency of burnt flints represents the time when ancestral humans learned to control fire, either by kindling it or by keeping it burning between natural wildfires.

For two years, Eren practiced the craft about eight hours a day — save one day per week, when he restocked his rock supply by hiking the beaches of South England, loading a backpack with 150 pounds of flint.

The flint was excavated near the Syrian town of Quneitra in the Israeli - controlled Golan Heights by Naama Goren - Inbar of Jerusalem's Hebrew University.

Morgan and University of Liverpool archaeologist Natalie Uomini arrived at their conclusions by conducting a series of experiments in teaching contemporary humans the art of «Oldowan stone - knapping,» in which butchering «flakes» are created by hammering a hard rock against certain volcanic or glassy rocks, like basalt or flint.

A wide range of clues made this site convincing, including isolated clusters of burned flint, as if toolmakers had been knapping hand axes by several firesides.

5 Fifty Minerals that Changed the Course of History by Eric Chaline, Apple Press, # 12.99 From flint and obsidian through salt and clay to tungsten and plutonium, Eric Chaline makes a good case for the minerals he thinks have altered history.

After calculating height and weight projections drawn from the impressions, as well as studying flint tools and other artifacts previously found nearby, the team believes the tracks were made by a small group of adult and juvenile members of the species Homo antecessor, known mostly from a handful of fossils in Spain.

Simon Parfitt of University College London and his colleagues found the flints and ascertained their antiquity by, among other things, dating the rock layer in which they were found as well as animal bones from that same stratum.

The 32 stone tools, made of black flint and many of them still sharp, were discovered by amateur archaeologists at Pakefield, Suffolk.

The layer of earth containing the elephant remains and flints is overlain by a higher level of sediment, rich in so - called Acheulian tool types — handaxes of various forms from later in the same interglacial.

Dr Wenban - Smith comments: «Although there is no direct evidence of how this particular animal met its end, the discovery of flint tools close to the carcass confirm butchery for its meat, probably by a group of at least four individuals.

A 790,000 - year - old hominid settlement in northern Israel, excavated by archaeologists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, appears to have been divided into distinct functional spaces, with a hearthside food preparation area and a spot dedicated to flint toolmaking.

The archeologists found that some of the flint used by this group of homo sapiens were from hundreds of kilometers away, which suggests they had very extensive social and trading network that helped with their survival for the next 4,000 years.

There's a certain degree of kitsch value in films like this, Modesty Blaise, and James Coburn's Flint series — a value explored by «Get Smart» and Mike Myers» Austin Powers series, which is essentially the Flints updated with a more inept protagonist.

Two Flints also produced I'll See You in My Dreams, which premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival where it was acquired by Bleecker Street.

FLINT MOBILE Michael Moore interviewed by Harlan Jacobson Not Roger Moore, Michael Moore directed Roger & Me, the documentary sensation of the Eighties: in which our hero, Moore, wheels about his hometown, Flint, Mich., chronicling the devastation wrought when General Motors» Roger Smith closed up shop and moved it to Mexico.

i did research and found a great dog food flint river you buy it direct from the company go on line to flintriverranch.com they have foods for young dogs to adult dogs no by products in it not made in china.

Cyprus was created by a volcano millions of years ago and the sand is volcanic, which contains flint, which is very beneficial to the skin.

NIAS SURF REPORT - MAY 1st TO 8TH BY MARK FLINT from the deck of KabuNohi Sorake Resort.

If you decide to help the Allies» war budget by expending as few bullets as possible, you can distract guards and get them out of the way by throwing rocks or setting fires with the «flint and steel.»

Atlanta Contemporary Art Center presents, FLINT, 1,105 DAYS AND COUNTING MAN - MADE WATER CRISIS, 2017, by LaToya Ruby Frazier, part of Creative Time's Pledges of Allegiance.

She wanted to add the 19th century Flints in a Landscape by the Norwich school painter John Crome, but as this wasn't available she has painted her own small version, in gouache on a postcard.

Inspired by a piece of flint in Moore's studio, the maquette is scaled up to over three metres high with the outward points creating a dynamic energy.

This geometric, starburst pattern refers back to previous works by Long, such as Paddy - Field Chaff Circle (2003), a temporary circle of radial lines made on Warli tribal land in the Maharastra district of India, while the sculpture's material relates to a recent flint and slate circle, North South East West (2017) made for his major exhibition at Houghton Hall last year.

Gerome's dictum, had at second - hand by Tom Roberts from some students met casually in Spain, was in fact the basis of Australian Impressionism, the flint that sparked off the first School of Australian painting.

A flint - knapper makes sharp stone flakes by striking a flint «core» with a hammerstone.

Priapus is a new edition based on a cast plaster work made by Sarah Lucas as part of her Penetralia series, a group of totemic objects inspired by her move to the Suffolk countryside and combining casts of a penis with fragments of found flint and wood.

Come by and see LaToya Ruby Frazier's flag, FLINT, 1,462 days and counting man - made water crisis, raised high above 59 East 4th Street.

The archeologists found that some of the flint used by this group of homo sapiens were from hundreds of kilometers away, which suggests they had very extensive social and trading network that helped with their survival for the next 4,000 years.

U-value: 0.078 Brick - clad walls: 100 mm facing brick (or 200 mm flint / backing block) external leaf, followed behind by 300 mm cavity fully filled with Isover Hi - Cav 32 glass mineral wool, 100 mm dense block inner leaf and Gypsum Hardwall plaster internally for airtightness.

When they went out onto the prairies to hunt buffalo, the Peoria, Tamaroa, Kaskaskia, Miami and other woodland tribes started grass fires to trap the large herbivores, and then slaughter sometimes large numbers of them with the beautifully finished flint weapons crafted by these men.

The area where Albany is located was formerly inhabited by the Creek Indians, who called it Thronateeska after their word for «flint» because of the mineral flint that was found near the river.

In spite of the note of formality, the owners have created a comfortable cottage garden, ably assisted by two venerable apple trees and a greengage tree from an earlier orchard on the site, all set against ancient flint and brick walls.

So often large commercial spaces like this lack warmth without the addition of textiles, so instead we created a feeling of warmth by working with materials which gave the illusion of texture - such as coating the bar in brushed copper sheeting, and covering the back wall with wallpaper which replicates an old flint wall.