Sentences with phrase «prehistoric stone»

As compared to the advanced forms found online today, these old fill in the blank forms were prehistoric stone tablets.

The walled cities, afraid of whatever the forests hide, replicated the prehistoric stone hideouts of humans.

Man first saw the light - at night - with such a prehistoric stone lamp, used by cave men to burn animal fats.

The title is highly - anticipated by the gaming community for its story, raw gameplay, as well as its rather harsh, prehistoric Stone Age setting — bringing a fresh gaming experience to the table.

# 101 - 103 Visit submerged Elizabethan shipwrecks, prehistoric stone forts, Roman villas, medieval villages, 18th - century merchant ships, and drowned forests — wonders that will soon be lost forever because of climate change.

Among these are the ancient, man - made Silbury Hill, a 10 - story earthen mound near Avebury, and the equally puzzling prehistoric stone towers (or «brochs») in Glenelg, Scotland, whose purpose has yet to be fathomed.

A serial killer is burning people alive in the Lake District's prehistoric stone circles.

Since your genes are 99.99 % the same as those of your Stone Age ancestors, your body is well - equipped for the prehistoric Stone Age.

They could also shed direct light on the evolution of our species, which has relied so much on tools — from prehistoric stone hammers to present day high tech computers — since the earliest days of our existence.

«At 5 this evening I received a phone call from a citizen of the Town of Ulster asking me what the Ulster Town Board was going to do to protect the prehistoric stone monument that is on the site of the project,» Quigley said.

Not exact matches

The Croods, about a prehistoric family on a road trip, stars Nicolas Cage, Emma Stone, Ryan Reynolds and Cloris Leachman and opens March 22.

Roger writes: «Feminism is ascendant, from Susan Brownmiller («Man's discovery that his genitalia could serve as a weapon to generate fear must rank as one of the most important discoveries of prehistoric times, along with the use of fire and the first crude stone axe») to Germaine Greer («Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caress of a subhumanly ugly mate?»).

A request for the extension of site plan approval for a retail plaza in the Town of Ulster last week saw town officials reveal that what some local residents believe is a prehistoric circle of stone pillars is more Fauxhenge than Stonehenge — likely to have been erected in the mid-20th century.

The parcel at 1204 Ulster Avenue is directly behind Five Guys Burgers & Fries, and on that property is the circle of stone pillars roughly 75 - feet in circumference described by Town Supervisor James E. Quigley, III as resembling Stonehenge, a prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, England, believed to have been constructed somewhere between 3000 - 2000 B.C.E.

Although stone - tool - dependent cultures exist even today, most stone tools are associated with prehistoric societies that no longer exist.

PREHISTORIC humans may have harnessed fire to make hard, sharp stone blades soon after Homo sapiens emerged in eastern Africa 200,000 years ago.

The exterior is rendered in an oddly tasteful, faux - prehistoric faux stone, as is most of the interior — though the cave effect is somewhat compromised by a dizzying profusion of top - of - the line plasma TV screens.

The tools were studied by Dr. Harmand and her colleague Hélène Roche — world experts in lithic analysis, the study of stone artifacts from the various Stone Age periods in which they were made — to interpret physical features and reconstruct the manufacturing techniques used at the prehistoric site, including experimental replication of the tstone artifacts from the various Stone Age periods in which they were made — to interpret physical features and reconstruct the manufacturing techniques used at the prehistoric site, including experimental replication of the tStone Age periods in which they were made — to interpret physical features and reconstruct the manufacturing techniques used at the prehistoric site, including experimental replication of the tools.

Near the prehistoric paint palettes, the archaeologists found stone tools that had been tailored to prepare the ocher mixture, as well as shaped pieces of bone that may have been used to apply the pigment.

An even more massive stone monument has lain hidden for thousands of years just a short walk away from the famous prehistoric site.

Katherine Wright of University College London has studied grinding stones and other tools for processing cereals from prehistoric sites in the southern Levant region of the Mediterranean, now occupied by Lebanon, Syria and Israel.

The prehistoric community, which by that time had already been using the caves for the burial of the dead for perhaps 1,000 years, began to insert carved stone supports under the cave roof in a vain attempt to control the collapse.

The prehistoric archaeology of the Maltese islands is famed for its many huge stone temples.

Dozens of stone knives, scrapers, and spear points found there suggest it may have been a weapons - making depot for Folsom hunters, prehistoric nomads who roamed North America more than 10,000 years ago.

Stone objects collected by prehistoric hunters were effective as throwing weapons to hunt animals, research at Leeds Beckett University reveals.

In 2005, a team led by Piperno and Anthony Ranere, an anthropologist at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, hit pay dirt: Under a giant boulder in the Balsas River region, called the Xihuatoxtla Shelter, the researchers discovered a trove of prehistoric grinding stones to which phytoliths and starch grains from maize were still adhering.

From Stone Age circles to Easter Island's statues, majestic prehistoric monuments may be far less to do with gods, kings or the heavens than we thought

A young archaeologist re-creates a prehistoric flaked - stone technology in order to understand how our ancestors made and used early stone tools more than two million years ago

Using DNA from 400 prehistoric skeletons, researchers show that the Beaker people rapidly replaced 90 % of the Stone Age people in Britain within a few hundred years, according to a study published this week in Nature.

Lead author Dr Shelby Putt, from the Stone Age Institute, said: «This work offers novel insights into prehistoric cognition using a cutting - edge neuroimaging technique that allows people to engage in complex actions while we are measuring localized brain activity.

The dig — in Pod Hradem Cave in the central part of the Moravian Karst, in southern Moravia, near Brno — has unearthed over 20,000 bones of prehistoric animals (reindeer, aurochs, wild horses and woolly rhinoceros) as well as stone tools, weapons, charcoal, and an engraved bone rod that is the oldest of its kind in Central Europe.

The study, published in the journal Nature Communications, presents compelling evidence that stone tool - making helped to drive the evolution of language and teaching among prehistoric human ancestors in the African savanna.

Stone Age A prehistoric period, lasting millions of years and ending tens of thousands of years ago, when weapons and tools were made of stone or of materials such as bone, wood, or Stone Age A prehistoric period, lasting millions of years and ending tens of thousands of years ago, when weapons and tools were made of stone or of materials such as bone, wood, or stone or of materials such as bone, wood, or horn.

«The Acheulian is one of the first defined prehistoric techno - complexes and is characterized by shaped bifacial stone tools.

Combs have been used by humans since prehistoric times, having been Ogham is a form of writing that was used in Ireland and to a lesser extent in Wales and Scotland for writing on stone monuments in the

Prehistoric animated feature from DreamWorks (Shrek), featuring the voices of Nicolas Cage, Ryan Reynolds, Emma Stone and Catherine Keener.

Nick Park, the creator of Wallace & Gromit, doesn't try to reinvent the wheel in Early Man, a prehistoric underdog sports spoof that pits dumb - as - rocks Stone Age cavemen from what is now the English soccer mecca of Manchester (yes, the title is a pun) against Bronze Age Euro snobs, indulging some of the silliness that made his short films such classics.

Nick Park, the creator of Wallace & Gromit, doesn't try to reinvent the wheel in Early Man, a prehistoric underdog sports spoof that pits dumb - as - rocks Stone Age cavemen from what is now the English soccer mecca of Manchester (yes, the title is a pun) against Bronze Age Euro snobs, indulging some of the silliness that...

Working with many of his longtime collaborators, the droll animation auteur will be dropping his latest collection of big - toothed claymation characters into some prehistoric steampunk whimsy, set at the moment when the Stone Age turned Bronze.

Set during the Late Cretaceous period, the prehistoric fantasy follows three Pachyrhinosauruses named Patchi (voice of Justin Long), Scowler (Skyler Stone), and Juniper (Tiya Sircar) as they grow from infants into adulthood.

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Set at the dawn of time when prehistoric creatures roamed the earth, «Early Man» tells the story of courageous caveman Dug (Eddie Redmayne) and his sidekick Hognob who, together with their fearless new friend Goona (Maisie Williams), must unite their Stone Age Tribe against the mighty Bronze Age enemy, Lord Nooth (Tom Hiddleston).

History buffs will delight in seeing mysterious, prehistoric Stonehenge (just imagine how those stones got there!)

History buffs will be delighted in visiting mysterious, prehistoric Stonehenge (just imagine how these stones got there!)

A prehistoric monument, Stonehenge is one of the most famous sites in the world — a ring of stones that stand in the midst of the most dense complex of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in England, believed to have been built somewhere between 3000 BC and 2000 BC.

History buffs will be delighted in seeing mysterious, prehistoric Stonehenge (just imagine how these stones got there!)

There is an abundance of alpine and Arctic flora here, along with many prehistoric burial chambers, tombs, and dolmens (ancient stone monuments).

After making their way through the city to the main shrine, the group discovers that the Cintamani Stone is a giant amber derived, along with the flammable resin, from the sap of a prehistoric tree of life in the center of the city.

In Stone Age Snap VR you take a virtual tour through a prehistoric jungle where you get to meet and take pictures of amazing animals.

In both the «Gray Paintings (Loxodonta)» and the «Organ Pipes», the materiality of the objects open up to suggest a vast scope of cultural production — the elemental tin transformed into the majestic pipe organ, an achievement of pre-industrial design on par with horology; the «Gray Paintings (Loxodonta)» echoing the stone surface of prehistoric cave paintings and also the modernist tradition of the monochrome.