Sentences with phrase «small pile of bone»

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Deep in a sinkhole, buried in a pile of sand and mastodon dung, was a small, ancient knife used for hunting and cutting carcass meat from the bone.

Their bones have even turned up in middens, or archaeological trash piles, dating back to at least 4500 years ago on Orkney, an island that lies about 16 kilometers off the northeastern coast of Scotland, and on the Outer Hebrides, a small archipelago located about 25 kilometers off the northwestern coast.

When he painted the soles of shoes — the stacked piles of shoes that we find in many of his large - scale works, and the single crumpled pair we find here in a smaller study — we imagine the burden of confronting and memorialising the Holocaust as one who was Jewish, and the anti-Semitism and the racism he felt to his bones growing up in Los Angeles in the 1920s.