Sentences with phrase «flint tools»
"Flint tools" refers to tools made by prehistoric people using a type of hard, sharp rock called flint. These tools were used for various tasks like hunting, cutting, and crafting. Full definition
Not content with learning sign language or coining «words», Kanzi the bonobo now seems able to make flint tools as well as our ancestors did
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Previously, flint tools from this era were discovered elsewhere in Turkey, but never on the European side of the country's continental divide.
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.
Excavation revealed a deep sequence of deposits containing the elephant remains, along with numerous flint tools and a range of other species such as; wild aurochs, extinct forms of rhinoceros and lion, Barbary macaque, beaver, rabbit, various forms of vole and shrew, and a diverse assemblage of snails.
They were stained with chemicals and, to fabricate a temporal link, were buried with flint tools in datable gravel near the tiny village of Piltdown, East Sussex.
The researchers examined artifacts previously excavated from the site, which are mostly flint tools for cutting and scraping, and flint debris created in their manufacture.
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.
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.
But 32 flint tools discovered in a cliff side during low tide near Pakefield point to humans living in the vicinity of its tidal flats and rivers around 700,000 years ago.
Artefacts found in Abri Faravel also include Mesolithic and Neolithic flint tools, Iron Age hand - thrown pottery, a Roman fibula and some medieval metalwork.
«In other cases, their shells were broken and then butchered using flint tools.
They discovered that flint tools excavated from deposit layers older than 350,000 years were mostly unexposed to fire.
Evidence of fire use at Tabun came from the discovery of Stone Age flint tools, which were used for scraping and cutting meat.
That distinction between flint tools not exposed to fire and those that were represents the transition from sporadic to regular fire use among hominins, according to paleontologists in the cave's excavation.
The researchers dated teeth from the jaw and flint tools found with the remains, obtaining an average age for the specimens of about 177,000 - 194,000 years old.
In 2010, Oldowan flint tools were discovered at Bayraki that are 800,000 — million years old.
The island held an important place in the network of Maya trading routes, and the exhibit includes flint tools, obsidian and pottery all of which originated on the Central American mainland.
Groups living in arid inland locales made rough flint tools, grinding stones, and, eventually, arrowheads and subsisted upon plant seeds and small game.
Shahack - Gross discovered the site during an archaeological dig that began in 2000 outside Tel Aviv, Israel, and has found artifacts such as teeth, animal bones, and flint tools whose design suggests they were used to cut meat.
Previous excavations there have turned up dozens of flint tools that these ancient people may have used to butcher animals or process their skins.
Numerous flint tools, such as axes and spear points, have been associated with the Mousterian.
Given the history of human invention, it is inevitable that some superior substitute will be found, and we will stop using large quantities of oil for the same reason we no longer make flint tools.
The objects fall into several categories: the earliest are flint tools from the Paleolithic Era, whose rough - hewn shapes seem sculptural to us today, but were functional for their makers.
Along with the bones are all manner of refuse, such as broken pottery and flint tools.
They had been interred along with grave gifts of pots, obsidian and flint tools, jewelry consisting of beads and stone pendants, and clay and stone figures of obese people and animals.