Sentence examples for heaps of bones from inspiring English sources

The heaps of bones were preserved when Neanderthals last abandoned the site, and a fine dust of silt blew over and preserved the remains.

Near the construction site of the new memorial, at Choeung Ek, south of the city, were heaps of bones, and a skinny Cambodian worker, with a kramar, the traditional plaid cotton scarf, around his waist, sitting at a picnic table under a thatched roof.

His most notable find, however, was not in the field but at the annual Tucson Gem and Mineral Show, in 2004, when he noticed on a table, amid heaps of bones and rocks, a skull that he thought could be a new species of ankylosaur, an herbivorous dinosaur from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.

The new hypothesis, which the team outlines in Antiquity, is that the heaps of bone discovered at the foot of the cliff were brought there by Neandertals to use for making fires and building shelter.

While picking through one pile, he comes upon a tiny piece of gold amid a heap of bones.

This summer Tokyo's supposedly oldest man, 111-year-old Sogen Kato, turned out to be a heap of bones covered in newspapers dating from 1978.

Twenty years later, the playboy, now poor and worn out, and the Baroness, just a heap of bones, were still living in the same house, and carrying on the same game of gracious living.

I love Fallout 4's knack for an evocatively tumbled heap of bones, for example, or the way scattered props knit themselves together at the back of your mind into narratives as you poke through some long-forgotten bunker.

Carcasses decompose very rapidly in the equatorial forest: an adult male gorilla carcass (≈150 kg) takes only 10 days to decompose entirely, i.e., be reduced to a heap of bones and hair.

The yellow PVC tubing the animals are made of bleaches to bone white in the sun; wrecks of defunct Strandbeests lay in the hilltop grass like heaps of old bones.

When the medieval abbeys were remodelled over the centuries, even before Henry VIII launched their dissolution, heaps of unrelated bones were often buried in charnel pits.