Sentences with phrase «flint knives»

The practice of shaving dates back to the Stone Age, when things like shark's teeth, porcupine quills and flint knives were commonly used to remove excess hair.

Hence the finely ornamented flint knives that were used to cut open the breastbones of living victims; hence the admirable skill devoted to creating clay and stone urns to hold drained blood and vital organs.

In many instances, substantial quantities of animal bones, particularly those of sheep and goats, were found together with drinking vessels and sharp flint knives.

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.

Stone tools like flint knives and ground stone axes and pottery have been recovered from nearby Cornish Barrows, but gold objects and ornaments of exotic material were also occasionally deposited in them.

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.

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The knife comes with a sheath, flint piece, and a glass breaker.

The site is anticipated to yield thousands more flint artefacts, including tools such as projectile points, scrapers, knives and piercers.