The Ancient Pueblo culture is perhaps best known for the stone and adobe dwellings built along cliff walls, particularly during the Pueblo II and Pueblo III eras.

Even though the stone had been around centuries and was known to both the Sumerians and the Egyptians, both who used the gem for decoration and for playing important parts in their religious ceremonies, any agate of this color from Sicily, once an ancient Greek colony, is called Greek agate.

The oldest known adhesive, dated to approximately 200, 000 BC, is from spear stone flakes glued to a wood with birch-bark-tar, which was found in central Italy.

When this discovery was followed up in 1870, on the neighbouring Santorin ( Thera ), by representatives of the French School at Athens, much pottery of a class now known immediately to precede the typical late Aegean ware, and many stone and metal objects, were found.

Nowadays Afyon is known for its marble ( in 2005 there were 355 marble quarries in the province of Afyon producing high quality white stone ), its sucuk ( spiced sausages ), its kaymak ( meaning either cream or a white Turkish Delight ) and various handmade weavings.

Granite boulders were also taken from the moor and used for stone posts and to a certain extent for building ( such material is known as moorstone ).

In Tonga it is known as Toloa (" duck "); it is depicted as a duck flying south, with one of his wings ( δ Crucis ) wounded because Ongo tangata (" two men ", α and β Centauri ) threw a stone at it.

The Chalcolithic ( khalkos " copper " + lithos " stone ") period or Copper Age, also known as the Eneolithic / Æneolithic ( from Latin aeneus " of bronze "), is a phase of the Bronze Age in which the addition of tin to copper to form bronze during smelting remained yet unknown by the metallurgists of the times.

While it has been known since Jane Goodall's 1960s discovery that modern chimpanzees use tools, research published in 2007 indicates that chimpanzee stone tool use dates to at least 4, 300 years ago.

One of the first known hominids, it was nicknamed ' handy man ' by discoverer Louis Leakey due to its association with stone tools.

The oldest known tools are the " Oldowan stone tools " from Ethiopia, 2. 5-2. 6 million years old, which predates the earliest known " Homo " species.

The period from 700, 000 – 300, 000 years ago is also known as the Acheulean, when H. ergaster ( or erectus ) made large stone hand axes out of flint and quartzite, at first quite rough ( Early Acheulian ), later " retouched " by additional, more subtle strikes at the sides of the flakes.

The Younger Futhark inscription on the stone bears a commonly seen memorial dedication, but is followed by an encoded runic sequence that has been described as " mysterious ," and " an interesting magic formula which is known from all over the ancient Norse world.

Eventually, the design was consolidated into what is known as the Munster stone circle tradition.

The oldest known iconographic representation of an instrument displaying the essential features of a guitar is a 3, 300-year-old stone carving of a Hittite bard.

Above the roof, which is formed of nine slabs of stone weighing in total about 400 tons, are five compartments known as Relieving Chambers.

The Giza pyramid complex, which includes among other structures the pyramids of Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure, is surrounded by a cyclopean stone wall, the Wall of the Crow, and outside of which Mark Lehner has discovered a worker's town, otherwise known as " The Lost City ", dated by pottery styles, seal impressions, and stratigraphy to have been constructed and occupied sometime during the reigns of Khafre ( 2520 – 2494 BC ) and Menkaure ( 2490 – 2472 BC ).

* Tsoureki, a traditional Christmas and Easter sweet bread also known as ' Lambropsomo ' ( Easter bread ), flavored with " mahlepi ", the intensely aromatic extract of the stone of the St. Lucie Cherry.

The heating process has been well known to gem miners and cutters for centuries, and in many stone types heating is a common practice.

After his death, he was known to be responsible for the use of columns and monumental stone in Egyptian architecture and considered to have fully advanced ancient Egyptian medicine.

There are also stone labyrinths on the Isles of Scilly, although none is known to date from before the nineteenth century.

Crinoid columnals extracted from the quarried stone and threaded into necklaces or rosaries became known as St Cuthbert's beads.

A good stepping stone leads to many others, so some of the most powerful results in mathematics are known as lemmata, such as Bézout's lemma, Urysohn's lemma, Dehn's lemma, Euclid's lemma, Farkas ' lemma, Fatou's lemma, Gauss's lemma, Nakayama's lemma, Poincaré's lemma, Riesz's lemma, Schwarz's lemma, Itō's lemma and Zorn's lemma.

However, there is substantial evidence that the meteorite known as Valera hit and killed a cow upon impact, nearly dividing the animal in two, and similar unsubstantiated reports of a horse being struck and killed by a stone of the New Concord fall also abound.

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image: Rufus stone side2. JPG | The Rufus Stone ( side 2 )

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During Rufus ' reign, Ranulf supervised the construction of the first stone bridge in London and oversaw the construction of the king's hall at Westminster.

He joined Marcus Caelius Rufus in 48 in his rising against Caesar, but he died at Compsa, near Thurii in Lucania, killed by a stone thrown from the city walls.

The earliest known building to be constructed using Portland stone is Rufus Castle at Church Ope Cove, Portland.

The first known Portland stone quarries were situated on the north eastern coast of the Isle, close to Rufus Castle, where huge landslips made the stone more easily accessible, and the proximity of the sea allowed the quarried stone blocks to be moved over relatively large distances by barge.

The reputed spot of Rufus's death is marked with a stone known as the Rufus Stone. The Rufus Stone Memorial

" He joined Marcus Caelius Rufus in 48 in his rising against Caesar, but he died at Compsa, near Thurii in Lucania, killed by a stone thrown from the city walls.

It was refounded in 1088 for Abbot Stephen and a group of monks from Whitby by the Anglo-Breton magnate Alan Rufus, who laid the foundation stone of the Norman church that year.

To access the beach there is a path which runs through a wood and a pirate graveyard next to the remains of Rufus Castle, then down stone steps to the cove.

* 1951 – The Stone of Scone, the stone upon which Scottish monarchs were traditionally crowned, is found on the site of the altar of Arbroath Abbey.

The first one holds The Angel's Stone, a fragment of the stone believed to have sealed the tomb after Jesus ' burial.

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Stone walling, flooring, lintels, and jambs had appeared sporadically during the Archaic Period, though it is true that a building of the Step Pyramid's size and made entirely out of stone had never before been constructed.

The most remarkable monument is the Stone labyrinths of Bolshoi Zayatsky Island-a group of 13 – 14 stone labyrinths on 0. 4 km < sup > 2 </ sup > area of one small island.

* Stone Lud, a standing stone in Caithness, in the Highland area of Scotland

Aztec calendar Sun stone | Sun Stone on display in Museo Nacional de Antropología.

Stone towers were found in natural mounds, as artificial ones were not strong enough to support stone towers.

The Neolithic Age, Era, or Period, νέος ( nèos, " new ") and λίθος ( lithos, " stone "): or New Stone era, was a period in the development of human technology, beginning about 10, 200 cal.

The term Neolithic derives from the Greek νεολιθικός, neolithikos, from νέος neos, " new " + λίθος lithos, " stone ", literally meaning " New Stone Age.

The Aberlemno Sculptured Stones | Aberlemno Serpent Stone, Class I Pictish stone, showing ( top to bottom ) the serpent, the Double disc ( Pictish symbol ) | double disc and Z-rod and the mirror and comb

The Aberlemno Sculptured Stones | Aberlemno Kirkyard Stone, Class II Pictish stones | Pictish stone

* Lithic reduction, in Stone Age toolmaking, to detach lithic flakes from a lump of tool stone

The Rosetta Stone is listed as " a stone of black granite, bearing three inscriptions ... found at Rosetta ", in a contemporary catalogue of the artifacts discovered by the French expedition and surrendered to British troops in 1801.

At some period after its arrival in London, the inscriptions on the stone were coloured in white chalk to make them more legible, and the remaining surface was covered with a layer of carnauba wax designed to protect the Rosetta Stone from visitors ' fingers.

By November 2005, Hawass was suggesting a three-month loan of the Rosetta Stone, while reiterating the eventual goal of a permanent return ; in December 2009, he proposed to drop his claim for the permanent return of the Rosetta Stone if the British Museum loaned the stone to Egypt for three months, for the opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum at Giza in 2013.

Excavations were once again carried out in 1978 by Atkinson and John Evans during which they discovered the remains of the Stonehenge Archer in the outer ditch, and in 1979 rescue archaeology was needed alongside the Heel Stone after a cable-laying ditch was mistakenly dug on the roadside, revealing a new stone hole next to the Heel Stone.

The Stone Age is a broad prehistoric period during which stone was widely used to make implements with a sharp edge, a point, or a percussion surface.

The Stone Age is further subdivided by the types of stone tools in use.

Study of the Stone Age has never been mainly about stone tools and archaeology, which are only one form of evidence.

" old stone ," coined by archaeologist John Lubbock and published in 1865 ) is the earliest division of the Stone Age.

The beginning of the Stone Age marks the era when hominins first began manufacturing stone tools, and evidence of these tools dates back at least 2. 6 million years in Ethiopia.