Sentences with phrase «flint at»

Eventually, Barney threw a piece of flint at some poor guy, and started a fire.

(Bronze artifacts are found more often than flint at Tollense, perhaps because metal detectors were used to comb spoil piles for artifacts.)

Not exact matches

Among the artifacts he gave Orland Park were a 5 - inch flint knife and an Evans point, a double - notched arrowhead, he found at 159th Street and La Grange Road.

I am also lucky to have the impressive Iron Age hill fort and flint mines at Cissbury Ring within my constituency so I can occasionally lose myself up there and ponder what a life in archaeology might have brought.

To determine when fire became a routine part of the lives of the cave dwellers, the team looked at flints from about 100 layers of sediments in the lowermost 16 meters of the cave deposits.

Chunks of flint found at the site in shapes resembling male and female genitalia suggest that the voyage may have been undertaken to obtain help with fertility from ancestors.

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.

Bronze - and flint - tipped arrows were loosed at close range, piercing skulls and lodging deep into the bones of young men.

Whether or not their hands were already wrapped around flints, they were at least laying the foundations for their descendants to do so.

He inserted sticks into seams in the log, threw projectiles at it, and used stone flints as choppers, drills and scrapers (see video at bit.ly / bonobotool).

In October in the Journal of Human Evolution, Metin Eren, a graduate student at the University of Exeter in England and Southern Methodist University in Dallas, appraised the qualities of flint knives he had re-created in the styles of both Neanderthals and Cro - Magnons, the early modern humans of Europe.

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

«The system itself is very simple but yet it displays sophisticated behavior,» explains principal investigator Martin Hanczyc, who was at Center for Fundamental Living Technology (FLINT), University of Southern Denmark, when the research was done.

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.

The jury on the case, doctors at the General Regional Hospital in Bolzano, the Italian town where Ötzi now rests, discovered the flint arrowhead on X rays while searching for fractures; CT scans confirmed the verdict.

The Bradgate Park Trust has commissioned the University of Leicester Archaeological Services (ULAS) to begin a new stage of work on a rare Late Upper Palaeolithic site at Bradgate Park in October, following an assessment that revealed in situ deposits containing an assemblage of worked flint.

Analysis of the flint scatter suggests that different activity zones may be identifiable, giving the archaeologists an understanding of the dynamics of life at the camp site some 14,700 years ago.

Evidence of fire use at Tabun came from the discovery of Stone Age flint tools, which were used for scraping and cutting meat.

Bronze - and flint - tipped arrows were loosed at close range, piercing skulls.

In 2010, Oldowan flint tools were discovered at Bayraki that are 800,000 — million years old.

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.

Sort of light - grey stone, possibly with a hint of flint — that's the construction of the wall that I nearly hit as the 991 very suddenly becomes a 911, loses grip at the front and then snaps its big arse sideways.

The glow is born from the sum of thousands of loves: newlyweds and teenagers who spark like lighters out of butane, pairs of men who burn fast and bright, pairs of women who illuminate for hours with soft multiple glows, orgies like rock and flint toys sold at festivals, couples trying unsuccessfully to have children who burn their frustrated image on the continent like the bloom a bright light leaves on the eye after you turn away from it.

This usually happens because the dog has turned suddenly whilst running at pace, and the pad is scraped off on a hard, rough surface OR because the dog has trodden on a sharp object such as a piece of flint or metal lying in or on the ground.

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The surfaces are hard, flint - like, with the array of colored dots creating a palpable sense of space — not the shallow Cubist space of Abstract Expressionism or the aerial space that defines Color Field painting — but a gravelly surface riddled with innumerable pits and ridges that's at once dazzling and forbidding.

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.

We would have been a hunter - gatherer society and technology would have consisted with, at most, flint sticks to start fires for cooking the catch of the day (whether bison, moose, or deer).