Sentence examples for bone point from inspiring English sources

They also used CT scanning to closely study the embedded bone point to confirm that it was a hunting tool.

The study, in the journal Science, finds that a mastodon rib with a bone point lodged in it dates back 13,800 years.

At the time, Dr. Gustafson proposed that the skeleton was about 14,000 years old and that hunters had killed the mastodon with a bone point.

But carbon dating technology has improved since then, and Dr. Waters and his colleagues — including Dr. Gustafson — were able to use mass spectrometry to date the rib, the bone point and tusks that were found at the site.

Wear and residue analysis of the lithic backed points in combination with complementary experimental data converge to indicate that the find represents a bone point armed with lithic barbs and used as hunting weapon.

The discovery of the earliest examples of various tools - including a sharpened bone point thought to date from between 40,000 and 38,000 years ago - has also caused excitement, with many apparently more than 10,000 years older than similar artefacts found elsewhere in Australia.

The archaeological bone points are consistent in size and breakage patterns with such uses.

Bradfield, J. & Brand, T. Results of utilitarian and accidental breakage experiments on bone points.

Organic artifacts include bone retouchers and a small number of bone points.

The main problem with them, Bone pointed out, is that they were better recipes for botulism than for peaches.

By 34,000 years ago people were making bone points for spears, and by 26,000 years ago they were making needles.