Sentence examples for stone artefact from inspiring English sources

"The results of this impressive dating study are clear, but the assumptions about the association of stone artefact with hominin types underlying the interpretation of the dating results will be undoubtedly rigorously tested in field – and laboratory – work over the near future," said Roebroeks, who wasn't involved in the study.

This morning I was sitting in the curators' apartment at Hampton Court Palace, reading a report that contained the not-so-gripping words "the stone artefact assemblage contains two whetstones, two slate pencil tips, several fragments of roof slates and some river pebbles".

We report on human behavioural adaptations within the context of Pleistocene environments and changing landscapes using zooarchaeological, stone artefact, bathymetric, and experimental isotopic analyses.

We show that this versatile segmentation of stone artefact handling strategies is a main determinant of the character of the Neandertal archaeological record.

Three models of human behavioural ecology are used to test predictions about how foragers adapted their stone artefact technology to variation in climatic conditions and proximity to stone resources.

Together with the stone artefact material from the lowest layer J at the nearby Sodmein Cave, this new open-air site clearly establishes the presence of the Early Nubian Complex in the region east of the Nile.

Situated at Monte Negro 12 (00 34 971 425 450; www.purohotel.com), the starkness of this hip, 26-room hang-out is offset by exotic wood and stone artefacts from India, south-east Asia and Morocco, with dreamy ambient music and a rooftop terrace with a plunge pool.

This blade, together with almost 150 other stone artefacts unearthed recently in Kenya, to the west of Lake Turkana, pushes the age at which early humans are known to have made such tools back 700,000 years, for dating of the strata they were found in suggests they are 3.3m years old.

Consequently, the excavated stone artefacts were used for grinding ink.

Residue analyses on stone artefacts have contributed to resolving functional questions in stone tool research.

Macrofracture analysis is an experimentally derived method used as an initial step in investigating the hunting function of stone artefacts.