Sentences with phrase «flint stones»

After the mid-1950s, many of Moore's sculptures were made from natural objects including bones, shells, pebbles and flint stones.

Not exact matches

Before man sharpened his first flint - stone or stoked his first fire, he sought his first meal and hid from his first enemy.

He also noticed during a rock slide that a certain stone (flint) struck against another (iron ore), a shower of sparks was emitted.

Mid-palate evolves into fresh minerality with some stone and flint characteristics.

Their conclusions: Stone Age men may have played an occasional game while chipping flints.

The finding of pottery and of numerous flint blades, arrowheads, and a decorated stamp seal made of carnelian, a semi-precious stone, also revealed that this cave was used in the Chalcolithic and the Neolithic periods.

The story of our ancestors» mental leaps can be found in stones — a modern - day flint - knapper is our guide

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 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 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.

The distinctive pots, possibly used as drinking vessels, are nearly ubiquitous; flint arrowheads, copper daggers and stone wrist guards are common, too.

But in every layer after that, many flints show signs of exposure to fire: red or black coloration, cracking, and small round depressions where fragments known as pot lids flaked off from the stone.

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.

The discovery of 9,000 - year - old flint tools made from local stone — the earliest such tools found in the European part of Turkey — helps fill a gap in the story.

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).

O'Driscoll also noted that most projectile impact marks were located on vertebrae or rib bones and that 17 % percent of the marks overall — and 50 % of the punctures — held microscopic bits of embedded stone from the flint points, due to the high velocity of impact.

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

Exotic axes of green stones and other objects made of flint and obsidian were also used as grave goods.

A variety of gifts were interred with the dead: pottery, bone and stone beads and pendants, stone axes made of metamorphic rocks, flint and obsidian blades, shell pendants, and shell and bead necklaces.

As they sat, they may have crafted flint spear points and tossed the broken ones into the fire, leaving behind telltale heat fractures on the stone.

Bouldnor Cliff, located 11 meters below the water's surface, was discovered in 1999, when, as the United Kingdom's Maritime Archaeology Trust puts it on its website, «a lobster was seen throwing Stone Age worked flints from its burrow.»

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.

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

«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.»

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.

Copper tools and weapons, for instance, become more common, though flint continues to be used in Egypt for centuries in such processes as the grinding of stone vessels, the carving of ivory, and the reaping of grain.

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.

One of the obscure suggestions for the origin of the name, is that the word «ambar» refers to pieces of Mayan stone implements made from a translucent brown flint, which could resemble amber.

You harvest wood and thatch from trees, stone and flint from rocks, fiber from plants, hides from animals, etc..

In this inhospitable ground, filmmaker Derek Jarman planted poppies, wild orchids and water lilies, and arranged small circles of flint and pieces of driftwood to resemble standing stones and upright tombs.

There was mud and clay on the normally pristine walls of Tate Britain yesterday, with slate, flint, basalt and stone on the floor.

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

Constructed from knapped or split Norfolk flint, the stones radiate out from a central nexus like spokes on a wheel, alternating in tone between the chalky white exterior and each flint's darker core.

A grade II listed flint - and - stone church conversion in Hertfordshire, with a sitting room, dining room, kitchen, sunroom, study, utility room, cloakroom, four bedrooms (two en - suite) and bathroom.