Sentence examples for chopping tool from inspiring English sources

It is variously known as a pebble tool, pebble chopper, chopping tool, or simply as a chopper.

Mr. MacGregor credits the hand ax, being a more portable and flexible utensil than the chopping tool of yore, with helping humanity spread from Africa to Europe and Asia.

One hundred objects have been selected from its unrivalled collections to illustrate the entire sweep of humanity's history: from a 2-million-year-old stone chopping tool, fashioned at a time when Homo sapiens did not even exist, to a solar-powered lamp, which McGregor optimistically casts as embodying the technology of tomorrow.

Artefacts on show range from the oldest - a 1.8 million-year-old chopping tool from Tanzania, to the newest - a Perspex sculpture created by a Maori artist and completed earlier this month, in time for the reopening.

Exhibit A: an Olduvai chopping tool.

The oldest -- a two-million-year-old chopping tool made from stone found in the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania -- was "the beginning of the toolbox," Mr. MacGregor said.

Moreover, excavation of the bone bed revealed small cutting and chopping tools that were used to process bison hide and meat.

Some of the male skeletons were buried with stone adzes – cutting and chopping tools – which were often beautifully polished and made from carefully selected stone, and so were probably also symbols of status and wealth.

Prof. Jenks states in Science of September 10 that of five stone artefacts recovered from the bone bed, three are flake implements with retouch, while two are chopping tools, chipped to rough parallel faces, and retouched on the cutting edges.

The stone tools and unused waste materials (mainly crude chopping tools and sharp flakes) left by H. habilis provide important clues about the behaviour of these early humans.

For spring/summer, a nun's white wimple finished off the look — along with bracelets that looked like primeval chopping tools.