Sentences with phrase «make sharp tools»

Dr. Harmand, the lead author, says that the Lomekwi 3 artifacts show that at least one group of ancient hominin started intentionally «knapping» stones — breaking off pieces with quick, hard strikes from another stone — to make sharp tools long before previously thought.

Not exact matches

«More than 2,600 sharp - edged flakes, flake fragments, and cores (cobbles from which flakes have been removed), found in the fine - grained sediments of a dry riverbed in the Afar region of Ethiopia, have been dated to between 2.52 and 2.60 million years ago, pushing back by more than 150,000 years the known date at which humans were making stone tools.»

You can get away with making this foolproof salad with a sharp knife, but a mandoline is the ideal tool.

You can get away with making this foolproof salad recipe with a sharp knife, but a mandoline is the ideal tool.

Typically in this space we focus on historically profitable betting systems, various prop betting opportunities and other tools for making sharper bets, but we still see many bettors repeating the same mistakes.

Discovered in what is now Kenya, these tools may have been made by Lucy's species, Australopithecus, which would have needed a strong grip to chip such sharp basalt flakes (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature14464).

Obsidian, naturally occurring volcanic glass, is smooth, hard, and far sharper than a surgical scalpel when fractured, making it a highly desirable raw material for crafting stone tools for almost all of human history.

Using just scraps of wood and hot embers, our evolutionary cousins figured out how to make tar, a revolutionary adhesive that they used to make formidable spears, chopping tools and other implements by attaching sharp - edged stones to handles, a new study suggests.

The 32 stone tools, made of black flint and many of them still sharp, were discovered by amateur archaeologists at Pakefield, Suffolk.

Archaeologists have long considered the advent of the Levallois method of making stone tools — a strategy for obtaining broad, thin, sharp flakes from a chunk of stone called a core — to be a significant development in human prehistory.

As a result, the new laser can lock onto an exact frequency, or color, more tightly, making it 100 times sharper as a precision tool.

No tools were found at the site, so it's unclear whether the marks were made with crafted tools or simply sharp - edged stones.

The discovery is the first evidence that an even earlier group of proto - humans may have had the thinking abilities needed to figure out how to make sharp - edged tools.

This is, in part, because of the very characteristics that make it so interesting: Typically, the constituents of a chemical compound can be determined through spectroscopy, among other tools, but in the case of eumelanin the spectrographs don't show the sharp peaks that are ordinarily useful in identification.

To make personalization even more effective, however, we can put a razor sharp focus on thinking skills, cognitive development, lateral - thinking and planning via mind mapping tools, infographics and the wonderful world of visual intelligence.

With some districts already using value - added measures to make decisions about hiring, firing and promotion, value added is a sharp tool.

While lesser GranTurismos are talented wafters and creamy gliders, the MC is a sharper tool made for precise driving with accurately timed inputs and prompt reflexes.

The M2 boasts significant performance hardware that make it a far sharper tool for the track than the M235i.

Check the skin often to make sure it is not becoming tender or reddened, especially if the tool is sharp.

The fluid sugarlift mixture makes it possible to create a brushlike mark as compared to intaglio etching, where the plate is cut into with a sharp tool.

Some of his sharpest pieces are small, painted sculptures made from metal tools, fragments of machinery, even bent nails.

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Now get those tools sharp and let make some chips.