Sentences with word «hammerstone»

Day 3 — Great People, Great Memories - Trek through the dunes to emerald - green Lake Wabby - See Fraser's shifting sands at Hammerstone Sandblow - Enjoy a buffet lunch at Eurong Beach Resort - Swim in the clear fresh waters of beautiful Lake Birrabeen - Enjoy an optional Air Fraser joy flight and take off right from the beach Note: After visiting Lake Wabby we stop at at Eurong Beach Resort for a comfort stop before we travel back to Rainbow Beach

On day three swim in beautiful Lake Wabby then trek over Hammerstone Sand Blow for a barbecue lunch at Eurong Beach Resort before an afternoon swim in clear blue Lake Birrabeen.

Scott Kroopf will produce with Alex Lebovici and Steve Ponce of Hammerstone Studios.

Averaging about 2 to 4 inches across, they were made using what paleoanthropologists call a «free hand» technique: A core is held in one hand and repeatedly struck with a round hammerstone held in the other hand to release sharp flakes.

Robbins RJ, Kwik - Uribe C, Hammerstone JF, Schmitz HH.

Landforms and vegetation types vary from closed rainforest, the more open blackbutt forest of the ridges, central dunes, and the spectacular Hammerstone sandblow which encroaches on famous Lake Wabby.

See landmarks like Seventy - Five Mile beach and Hammerstone Sandblow; stop en - route to swim or sunbathe; and camp overnight at Lake Wabby and Lake McKenzie.

Their industrial manufacturing presence is composed of five key holdings — GrafTech, a manufacturer of graphite products; MAAX Inc., a manufacturer of bathroom accessories; North American Palladium Ltd., a precious metals company; Armtec, a precast concrete supplier; and the Hammerstone Corporation, a limestone company.

Typically, a rock (the hammerstone) was used to strike another rock (the core) to remove a slender piece (the flake) that was further sculpted into the desired form, such as an arrowhead or knife.

In 2014, Dr. James Paces, a research geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, used state - of - the - art radiometric dating methods to determine that the mastodon bones — which were still fresh when they were broken by strategically - placed blows from hammerstones — were 130,000 years old, with a conservative error of plus or minus 9,400 years.

«The tools are much larger than later Oldowan tools, and we can see from the scars left on them when they were being made that the techniques used were more rudimentary, requiring holding the stone in two hands or resting the stone on an anvil when hitting it with a hammerstone,» Dr. Harmand says.

For the stone tip, she used a hammerstone to strike obsidian into flakes, then shaped them into points modeled on those found at another site in Alaska from 13,000 years ago;

In contrast, the earlier Lomekwi 3 toolmakers set the cores on larger rocks and struck them with the hammerstone from above.

When it comes to acquiring and processing food, a hammerstone is better than a big molar, and a knapped flint is sharper than a pointed canine.

Based on thorough examination, the researchers concluded that three separate objects — a block to cut from, a hammerstone and an anvil — would have been needed to create these tools, proving that whoever made them intentionally wanted to do so.

Lead author Steven Holen of the Center for American Paleolithic Research and his team reported finding «hammerstones and stone anvils» along with «spiral - fractured bone and molar fragments» of a mastodon that they believe was butchered.

Lake Wabby, at the edge of the Hammerstone Sand Blow, is the deepest lake on the island and when the sun shines it's hard to resist plunging into its cool, emerald depths.

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