Sentences with phrase «flint tools from»

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.

Previously, flint tools from this era were discovered elsewhere in Turkey, but never on the European side of the country's continental divide.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

«People settled here because there was flint from which tools were crafted,» according to Prof. Winter.

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.

(GML Heritage 2018) SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA — According to a BBC News report, indigenous Australians made traditional tools from flint cobbles carried to Australia as ballast on British ships in the...