Sentence examples for bones and stone tools from inspiring English sources

He returned in 1879 to excavate the floor of the cave's entrance chamber, unearthing animal bones and stone tools.

Burnt bones and stone tools still suggest the presence of fire, but there is no direct evidence that humans built it, Dr. Goldberg said.

Remains of animal bones and stone tools at some Neanderthal sites suggested that these people ate large amounts of meat, but these were not accepted by many scientists as definitive evidence that they were hunters, with more highly developed skills in planning and organizing their food-gathering forays, and not just scavengers.

Unlike ancient bones and stone tools, language does not fossilize.

The cave, called Grotte XVI, is an archaeologist's dream, containing a treasure trove of butchered animal bones and stone tools that represent 50,000 years of human occupation.

The accumulation rates for shell beads, bones, and stone tools paralleled one another through time, indicating that ornament discard followed the pulse of daily life at this site.

For 18 years, archaeologist Jean-Philippe Rigaud of the University of Bordeaux in Talence, France, and colleagues meticulously excavated and documented thousands of animal bones and stone tool sets from the Grotte XVI site.

There are also thousands of native artefacts on display, including bone and stone tools dating back 12,000 years.

The fragments of bone and stone tool he has dug from a cave hidden in western Flores raise issues that could transform our ideas of what it means to be a human being.

Explanations of the dense bone and stone tool accumulation range from a site on a featureless lake margin that is dominantly anthropogenic in origin to a site near a freshwater wetland that is dominated by carnivore activity (e.g. felids and hyenas).

The cave sealed off until its discovery in 1931 was uniquely able to preserve the human remains, which were mixed randomly with animal bones, broken pottery, and stone tools.