Sentence examples for human workmanship from inspiring English sources

The collection of hand axes and other tools shaped to cut, pierce and scrape bear the hallmarks of early human workmanship, but date from 125,000 years ago, around 55,000 years before our ancestors were thought to have left the continent.

The resulting object may show "human workmanship and modification", even if it is not an instance of any previously known artifact type.

The strata also contained "eoliths," flint forms that, at the time, were thought to be the most primitive examples of human workmanship, "which are so plentiful in the Kentish plateau, a short distance to the north of the discovery".

According to Webster's Third New International Dictionary, an artifact is "a usually simple object (as a tool or an ornament) showing human workmanship and modification as distinguished from a natural object".

Most hazards that arise in a system are thought to be primarily due to the defects in design, material, workmanship, or human error.

It is in this sense that species and genera are the workmanship of the human understanding; we take what nature gives us and we create our own definitions and taxonomical categories.

They represented everything I now want from exotic consumption: authenticity, extraordinary workmanship, objects worked by loving human hands — and the guarantee that they will be worn, on the beach or in bed, until the stiff cotton and thick stitching soften into a veil of comfort.

There is nothing like the gift of the human touch, derived from a history that boasts pure workmanship and artistry made on the side of our cobbled streets.

This medal is awarded from time to time for discovery or research adding to the sum of human knowledge, embodying substantial elements of leadership and unusual skill or perfection of workmanship.

The Michelangelo Foundation, he said, would go some way to preserving an important thread of social fabric on the Continent: respect for exceptional workmanship that embodies culture and place, and preserving and protecting the boundless creativity of human beings in a rapidly changing world.

This is an opera of flawless workmanship reconciled with the dramatic claims of a seemingly artificial and cynical libretto, which in fact exposes human frailty but is tempered by one of Mozart's most sympathetic and melodious scores.