Dr Wenban - Smith comments: «Although there is no direct evidence of how this particular animal met its end, the discovery
of flint tools close to the carcass confirm butchery for its meat, probably by a group of at least four individuals.
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.
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.
But 32
flint tools discovered in a cliff side during low tide near Pakefield point to humans living in the vicinity
of its tidal flats and rivers around 700,000 years ago.
The 32 stone
tools, made
of black
flint and many
of them still sharp, were discovered by amateur archaeologists at Pakefield, Suffolk.
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.
Excavation revealed a deep sequence
of deposits containing the elephant remains, along with numerous
flint tools and a range
of other species such as; wild aurochs, extinct forms
of rhinoceros and lion, Barbary macaque, beaver, rabbit, various forms
of vole and shrew, and a diverse assemblage
of snails.
They were stained with chemicals and, to fabricate a temporal link, were buried with
flint tools in datable gravel near the tiny village
of Piltdown, East Sussex.
Evidence
of fire use at Tabun came from the discovery
of Stone Age
flint tools, which were used for scraping and cutting meat.
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.
Copper
tools and weapons, for instance, become more common, though
flint continues to be used in Egypt for centuries in such processes as the grinding
of stone vessels, the carving
of ivory, and the reaping
of grain.
The island held an important place in the network
of Maya trading routes, and the exhibit includes
flint tools, obsidian and pottery all
of which originated on the Central American mainland.
Given the history
of human invention, it is inevitable that some superior substitute will be found, and we will stop using large quantities
of oil for the same reason we no longer make
flint tools.