Sentence examples for tools dated from inspiring English sources

Until now, the earliest evidence of humans in Britain came from Pakefield, near Lowestoft in Suffolk, where a set of stone tools dated to 700,000 years ago were uncovered in 2005.

In Crete a collection of stone tools dated to at least 130,000 years ago provided the earliest-known evidence for seafaring in the Mediterranean and possibly the world pushing back the date by more than 110,000 years.

Researchers working on England's North Sea coast have uncovered flint tools dated to at least 780,000 years ago, the earliest evidence of prehistoric humans this far north.

Now, an international team originally led by the hobbit discoverer reports stone tools, dated to 118,000 to 194,000 years ago, from another Indonesian island, Sulawesi, likely made by another archaic human or possibly by other hobbits.

But in 2004, researchers pushed that date further back in time when they discovered beads and stone and bone tools dated to as much as 35,000 years old at several sites in the Ural Mountains of far northeastern Europe and in northern Siberia; they also found the butchered carcasses of woolly mammoths, woolly rhinoceros, reindeer, and other animals.

That picture began to change in 2005, when members of the interdisciplinary Ancient Human Occupation of Britain (AHOB) project, a research collaboration funded by the London-based Leverhulmaderupt and made up of more than two dozen scientists from Europe and North America, reported finding stone tools dated to 700,000 years ago on the North Sea coast of England at Pakefield, northeast of Norwich.

In Saudi Arabia and India, sophisticated tools date back as far as 100,000 years.

There are also thousands of native artefacts on display, including bone and stone tools dating back 12,000 years.

A remarkable series of several dozen European-style stone tools, dating back between 19,000 and 26,000 years, have been discovered at six locations along the US east coast.

The oldest finds are stone tools dating from 9500 to 6000 bce, discovered in Finnmark in the north and Rogaland in the southwest.

Archaeological excavations in the mid-20th century by Emil W. Haury at Ventana Cave, southwest of Phoenix, uncovered human and animal remains and stone tools dating to about 10,000 years ago.