Sentences with phrase «spear points»

Careful examination of numerous fluted spear points found in Alaska and western Canada prove that the Ice Age peopling of the Americas was much more complex than previously believed, according to a study done by two Texas A&M University researchers.

WITHIN every living cell lurks a relic from the earliest stages of life on Earth, like a flint spear point in a modern military arsenal.

Other styles of tool making eventually replaced the distinctive stone spear points made by Clovis people.

Anzick - 1's resting place is the oldest credible burial site found in the Americas — and the only one associated with the Clovis culture, known in particular for its fluted spear points.

As they sat, they may have crafted flint spear points and tossed the broken ones into the fire, leaving behind telltale heat fractures on the stone.

We had park rangers get threatened; their families got threatened at spear point,» Cinner says.

Shock - absorbing spear points kept early North Americans on the hunt.

A 2.2 - inch spear point found in his hip probably did not kill him, but it may hold crucial clues connecting the skeleton to other known cultures of the West — particularly one identified by Cascade points, spear tips that date between 9,500 and 5,000 years ago.

Instead of complex spear points, they used flakes knocked off round beach stones for everything from prying open shellfish to cutting up plants.

Stiger began digging on Tenderfoot after he happened upon some bits of Folsom spear points while surveying the proposed site of a communications tower.

Researchers long thought that Clovis hunters, identified by their distinctive «fluted» spear points marked with long, shallow grooves, followed game south through the corridor more than 13,000 years ago, when their tools begin to show up in the continental United States.

They made a type of stone spear point that differs from stone tools found elsewhere in the world at the time.

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.

Building a personal brand can be the spear point to getting your foot in the door not just in Silicon Valley, but any other community you're attempting to break into.

In order to emphasize Republican efforts to focus on border security as the spear point for immigration reform rather than a path to citizenship — efforts Obama says he will veto.

We have Danny Welbeck who while I honestly believe absolutly tries his best, really is limmited in ability and Oliver Giroud who despite his trying to be the «real Deal» as a spear point striker is again not really up to muster in his chosen role unyet AW again persists in telling evry Arsenal fan that he is or at least will be the genuine article when we can all clearly see this will NEVER be the case.

So why did they continue to make the arrow and spear points, which would have required carefully selected stone and great skill to fashion?

Here in 1932, archaeologists found masses of animal bones mixed with long, slender stone spear points.

During this shoot I was cured forever of even a hint of snobbery towards Neanderthals while holding a fearsomely massive fragment of a mammoth tooth in one hand and a spear point in the other.

A spear point found in mammoth remains in 1932 has long been the earliest solid evidence of humans living in the New World.

This tradition includes bone awls and sophisticated stone spear points and knives, as well as beads from jewelry: sixty - eight specimens of the southern African tick shell, Nassarius kraussianus, most found clustered together and thought to be part of individual necklaces or bracelets.

It was discovered in 1964 by archaeologist Nikolai Dikov, who found spear points and tools that he carbon - dated to about 14,300 years old.

Some were the stone spear points or tools used to make the spear points..

Numerous flint tools, such as axes and spear points, have been associated with the Mousterian.

Somewhat away from other activities was an area scattered with sharp stone chips; for people like Jondalar, she thought, flintknappers who made tools, knives, and spear points.

There is a plot in place, but it's pretty standard stuff: Cult takes over Hope County, Montana; cuts off access to outside world; and you serve as the spear point of the resistance to take back the region.

Currently, Phantasy Star Online 2 is only available for the PC, but that's really just the spear point for Sega's larger plans for the free - to - play MMORPG.