Sentence examples for absence of stone from inspiring English sources

Almost all of the A. africanus remains from Sterkfontein come from a deposit where there is a conspicuous absence of stone tools.

Then, using the sun-baked and kiln-fired bricks that had always been the main building material on the river-flooded Mesopotamian plains in the absence of stone quarries, they raised the fortress-like city walls brick by brick.

In 23 patients who had CBD dilatation without stone or sludge, CBD was swept by balloon during ERCP to confirm the absence of stone or sludge.

A future intervention may include high-dose oral citrate, which delayed renal failure progression in a CLC-5 knockout mouse model even in the absence of stone formation [ 22].

Perhaps more than anything the absence of Stones, who had been earmarked as the defensive launchpad for England's passing game, has been felt most keenly in the two games to date.

Therefore, the absence of stones from Grave I and presence of unusually large and flat cobbles in Grave VIII is likely intentional.

Marked and abrupt dilatation of the distal bile duct or pancreatic duct in the absence of stones or pancreatitis is highly suggestive of ampullary carcinoma [ 111].

In the absence of stones or other risk factors (such as hypertension), the risk of urate nephropathy has generally been considered low.

As shown in Table 1, in the absence of stones, trip length significantly increased with arena size and spiny mice took fewer but longer trips in the large arena compared with more but shorter trips in the small arena.

In Tomoroco and Kaynakas – with more steeply sloping land – considerable investments were made in bench terraces, while in Sirichaca and Patallajta gully control works (especially the smaller ones) and earth bunds (due to the absence of stones) were given more attention.

Ariane Burke, an archeozoologist at the University of Montreal, said she was also struck by the absence of knapped stone tools.