Sentences with phrase «from flint»

(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...

Long before the first human ancestor struck a fire with a spark from a flint, there were Ice Ages, interspersed with warm periods.

The earliest evidence of habitation in the Ilkley area is from flint arrowheads or microliths, dating to the Mesolithic period, from about 11,000 BC

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.

This precision squeeze between thumb and fingers is uniquely human and a legacy from our flint - wielding ancestors.

5 Fifty Minerals that Changed the Course of History by Eric Chaline, Apple Press, # 12.99 From flint and obsidian through salt and clay to tungsten and plutonium, Eric Chaline makes a good case for the minerals he thinks have altered history.

THERE»S MORE TO LEARN FROM FLINT «A job that was taken by a robot 30 years ago... is not coming back, no matter what the president of the United States says.»

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Nephi said that the flint of verse 21 made his brothers and their family members receive a curse from God which made their skin to change form from whiteness and goodness to blackness.

However, he did also mention that they could repent and return to God and have this curse of flint taken from them.

From this verse we can then determine that flint meant black in a way that those who do not follow the counsel of the priest and were on such a level of «scratching and biting» as were the brothers of Nephi could receive a curse of being exiled from the people of God and a transformation would come on them which would make them look unpleasant to those who kept the commandments of God so they would not want to be a part of their communitFrom this verse we can then determine that flint meant black in a way that those who do not follow the counsel of the priest and were on such a level of «scratching and biting» as were the brothers of Nephi could receive a curse of being exiled from the people of God and a transformation would come on them which would make them look unpleasant to those who kept the commandments of God so they would not want to be a part of their communitfrom the people of God and a transformation would come on them which would make them look unpleasant to those who kept the commandments of God so they would not want to be a part of their communities.

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

Learn different methods of producing a spark, from sticks to bow drills to flint, then practice making a spark and breathing it into a small flame (Acton)

However in the case of caroline flint I think the dude from C4 news today hit the nail on the head: «she was about to take a job but found all sorts of principled reasons for not taking it when it wasn't offered»

The last time I talked about flint - faced accountants I got a letter from the wife of an accountant saying: «Dear David Cameron.my husband isn't flint - faced - he's actually very good looking.»

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.

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.

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.

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.

The flints were typical of the Clovis period, a short archaeological period in North America lasting from 13,000 to 12,500 years ago.

Thousands of warriors came together in a brutal struggle, perhaps fought on a single day, using weapons crafted from wood, flint, and bronze, a metal that was then the height of military technology.

Along a 3 - kilometer stretch of the Tollense River, archaeologists from the Mecklenburg - Vorpommern Department of Historic Preservation (MVDHP) and the University of Greifswald (UG) have unearthed wooden clubs, bronze spearheads, and flint and bronze arrowheads.

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

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.

Simon Parfitt of University College London and his colleagues found the flints and ascertained their antiquity by, among other things, dating the rock layer in which they were found as well as animal bones from that same stratum.

Fragment of mammoth tooth, to the right, a flint that was probably a spearpoint, comes from the Le Moustier archeological site in southwestern France.

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.

Since the excavation, which took place in 2004, Francis has been carrying out a detailed analysis of evidence recovered from the site, including 80 undisturbed flint artefacts found scattered around the elephant carcass and used to butcher it.

Its name comes from the Pedra de Fogo («Rock of Fire») Formation where it's from, so named for the presence of flint.

A total of 347 patients (155 treated with vitamin E, 192 not treated with vitamin E) were included in the analysis which compared data from three clinical trials that investigated the efficacy and safety of vitamin E as a treatment for NASH: the PIVENS, TONIC and FLINT trials.

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.»

New excavation in Bradgate Park, Leicestershire, aim to save flint artefacts from the impact of erosion.

A 790,000 - year - old hominid settlement in northern Israel, excavated by archaeologists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, appears to have been divided into distinct functional spaces, with a hearthside food preparation area and a spot dedicated to flint toolmaking.

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

The team analysed over 50,000 pieces of wood and nearly 36,000 pieces of flint from what was once probably a Homo erectus settlement on the shores of an ancient lake.

WITHIN every living cell lurks a relic from the earliest stages of life on Earth, like a flint spear point in a modern military arsenal.

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.

The archeologists found that some of the flint used by this group of homo sapiens were from hundreds of kilometers away, which suggests they had very extensive social and trading network that helped with their survival for the next 4,000 years.

Lucy flint passed away from howard stern.

The fourth and final season of Starz's Black Sails moves into Robert Louis Stevens territory as John Silver strives to hold Captain flint from crossing into madness.

In my travels for work and pleasure, I have hunted agates in Scotland, searched for flints, arrowheads, and fossils in Wyoming, Texas, and Oregon, and brought pieces of obsidian home from Japan.

red exterior and a medium / dark flint interior, this car is a sight to see from the inside out.

This car goes form FLINT, MI TO PONTIAC, MI 5 days a week (410 miles just driving to work) and I party on the weekend driving from PONTIAC MI to DETROIT MI 3X A MONTHS (180 miles of partying the big city).

The Cap Rock is that big high, crooked cliff of limestone, sandrock, marble, and flint, that divides the lower west Texas plains from the upper north panhandle plains.

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.

One of them was My Side of the Mountain, the story of Sam Gribley, a boy who runs away from his family in New York City to the Catskill mountains, taking only an axe, a flint - and - steel, $ 40 and a ball of string.

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