Sentences with phrase «knapped points»

«We found very thin, expertly made projectile points and it blew us away that these delicate flint - knapped points are this old,» he says.

Not exact matches

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.

While the Still Bay era is also characterised by highly innovative technologies — including engraving of ochre, use of personal ornaments, manufacture of highly stylised bone tools, heating silcrete (red rock) to produce better material for knapping bifacial points (spear points) using hard hammer and finally pressure flaking technology — the research team points out that HP's ecological niche expansion coincides with the development of technological innovations that were both efficient and more flexible than those of the Still Bay.