Sentence examples for stone tool making from inspiring English sources

The Neanderthals harnessed fire, lived in shelters, wore clothes, and mastered the art of stone tool making.

Such an estimate neatly falls in with the tendency to view stone tool making as a uniquely human, namely Homo, ability.

The waste products of stone tool making and isolated artifacts found on land surfaces can illuminate aspects of human culture and of landscape evolution even though they lack stratigraphic context.

Archaeologists have discovered the oldest known evidence for highly skilled stone tool making, dating to more than 2 million years ago.

In particular, both stone tool use and stone tool making employing three- and four-jaw chuck precision grips elicit consistently high levels of FPL activity.

The technological history of Hominidae following the invention of stone tool making some 2.5 million years ago was thus much like the life of a soldier: long periods of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.

The Dutch had demonstrated that stone tools made by human ancestors, known for some time from amateur excavations, were older than about 800,000 years.

Stone tools made of non-local materials, and sea-shell jewellery found far from the coast, are witnesses to long-distance exchanges.

Chipped stone tools made by Paleolithic hunters have been found in many parts of mainland Greece, but none are yet recorded from Crete or the other islands.

Grinding stone tools makes them stronger and gives them an even cutting edge; the growth of ground tools enabled Neolithic axe-wielders to clear forests for agriculture, fuel, and shelter.

The stone tools, made for crushing, cutting and scraping, gave early humans a means to butcher animal carcasses, strip them of meat and crack open their bones to expose the nutritious marrow.