Sentence examples for stone tip from inspiring English sources

The idea of attaching a stone tip to a spear, known as hafting, was a critical advance in hunting.

By using a spear with a piercing stone tip, early humans could cause their prey to bleed and die faster.

These points were in turn hafted through an equally complex process of applying resin or binding to join to the stone tip to a carefully shaped wooden pole, or shaft (Frison 2004).

The evidence for stone-tipped spears until now has been no more than 300,000 years old, from triangular stone tips found all over Africa, Europe and western Asia.

The stone tips were found at an archaeological site called Kathu Pan 1 in the 1980s.

The stone tips were recovered between 1979 and 1982 during excavations.

She and her colleagues compared the wear and breakage in the stone tips to modern spear points fired into the carcass of an African gazelle called a springbok.

Dating the stone tips to 500,000 years ago means that they were used on spears by the last common ancestor of modern humans and Neanderthals, Homo heidelbergensis.

Other Neanderthals made artificial glue by careful burning of tree bark, to help fix their sharp stone tips to spear shafts.

To find out if any stone tips were being used on spears any earlier than that, Wilkins examined sharp stones found at a site called Kathu Pan, in the Northern Cape region of South Africa.

A new study reports that the stone tips, found in South Africa, were probably once attached to wooden spears and then hurled at animals by hominins of the species Homo heidelbergensis.