Sentence examples for stone tips from inspiring English sources

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.

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

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.

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 study of these items can shed light on selective forces that influence the evolution of prehistoric weaponry, especially that which involves small stone tipped projectiles, which is itself a global phenomenon during the late Pleistocene and continuing throughout the Holocene.

It is named for Clovis points, stone spear tips attributed to the Clovis people, who were Paleolithic Indians believed to have inhabited the North Fork.