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Richard Atkinson, Stuart Piggott and John F. S. Stone re-excavated much of Hawley's work in the 1940s and 1950s, and discovered the carved axes and daggers on the Sarsen Stones.
Its eight exhibition rooms include artefacts such as New Stone Age stone axes, 80 pottery jars from the Hallstatt era and Celtic bronze jewellery.
Some of the archaeological discoveries are: Stone axes of the Neolithic and Chalcolithic period, potteries and objects of the ancient cities of Curium and Amathus, as well as Roman terracottas, gold jewellery, coins, sculptures, columns, vases, earrings, rings, necklaces, marble statues etc.
Stone Age artefacts, flint axes and spearheads, were found in the district of Bas-Flanders and the site Oosthove.
Stone axes, arrow heads and blades were discovered which date to between 6. 800-6, 000 BCE.
Stone axes used by the area's first farmers over 5, 000 years ago have been found within the city and the first bronze axes date from around 4, 000 years ago.
Stone axes have been found in the area and particularly at Mossgarth, Portinscale.
Lancashire Through Time is based around the County's archeological collections icluding 4, 000 year old Stone Age axes, Roman artefacts and early industrial items.
Stone hand axes were in use in the Paleolithic period for hundreds of thousands of years.
Stone tools include small flakes, axes and sickles.
Stone axes, so called thunderstones ( called Ukonvaaja in Finnish ), were found on ground especially after big rain that removed some dirt.
Stone axes were made of various stones, and other tools were made of horn and bone.

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With these completed and ice gone from the St. Peter's River ( present-day Minnesota river ) their 250 bushels of wheat, 100 bushels of oats and barley and 30 bushels of peas and some chickens were loaded onto the flat-bottomed boats and rowed up the river to Big Stone Lake, across into Lake Traverse, and down the Red.
There were four kinds of allegiances ( Rittson v Stordy ( 1855 ) 3 Sm & G 230 ; De Geer v Stone ( 1882 ) 22 Ch D 243 ; Isaacson v Durant ( 1886 ) 54 LT 684 ; Gibson, Gavin v Gibson 3 KB 379 ; Joyce v DPP AC 347 ; Collingwood v Pace ( 1661 ) O Bridg 410 ; Lane v Bennett ( 1836 ) 1 M & W 70 ; Lyons Corp v East India Co ( 1836 ) 1 Moo PCC 175 ; Birtwhistle v Vardill ( 1840 ) 7 Cl & Fin 895 ; R v Lopez, R v Sattler ( 1858 ) Dears & B 525 ; Ex p Brown ( 1864 ) 5 B & S 280 );
Aron Habrit ), also known as the Ark of the Testimony, is a chest described in Book of Exodus as containing the Tablets of Stone on which the Ten Commandments were inscribed and pieces of manna.
* 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.
These works, which included the famed Rosetta Stone, were the first important group of large sculptures to be acquired by the Museum.
Stone bas-reliefs, including the famous Royal Lion Hunt relief's ( Room 10 ), that were found in the palaces of the Assyrian kings at Nimrud and Nineveh.
According to George Cameron Stone, " Entire suits of mail kusari gusoku were worn on occasions, sometimes under the ordinary clothing ".
Stone suggested that there was nothing absurd in this view, and noted that many entities now regarded as having legal rights were, in the past, regarded as " things " that were regarded as legally rightless ; for example, aliens, children and women.
Stone quarrying, sugar-beet farming, and the slaughter of sheep were among the area's earliest industries.
Groucho developed friendships with rock star Alice Cooper — the two were photographed together for Rolling Stone magazine — and television host Dick Cavett, becoming a frequent guest on Cavett's late-night talk show.
Stones attached to sticks with strips of leather or animal sinew were being used as hammers by about 30, 000 BCE during the middle of the Paleolithic Stone Age.
The original buildings of campus were designed by Edward Durell Stone.
Only three of his books were published during his lifetime: Mafeking Road published by Dassie, and Jacaranda in the Night and Cold Stone Jug published by APB.
A review in Rolling Stone magazine referred to Physical Graffiti as Led Zeppelin's " bid for artistic respectability ", adding that the only bands Led Zeppelin had to compete with for the title " The World's Best Rock Band " were The Rolling Stones and The Who.
Baum wrote a sequel, The Woggle-Bug, but since Montgomery and Stone balked at appearing when the original was still running, the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman were omitted from this adaptation of The Marvelous Land of Oz, which was seen as a self-rip-off by critics and proved to be a major flop before it could reach Broadway.
Religious works by Botta, including the Cymbalista Synagogue and Jewish Heritage Center were shown in London at the Royal Institute of British Architects in an exhibition entitled, Architetture del Sacro: Prayers in Stone.
Stone towers were found in natural mounds, as artificial ones were not strong enough to support stone towers.
Subdivisions of " earlier " and " later " were added to the Stone Age by Thomsen and especially his junior colleague and employee Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae.
Stone tools were used by perhaps as many as hundreds of people to create the pillars, which may have supported roofs.
Christine Jorgensen, Beth Elliott, Renée Richards, Sandy Stone, Billy Tipton, Alan L. Hart, April Ashley, Caroline Cossey (" Tula "), Jahna Steele, and Nancy Jean Burkholder were outed as transsexuals by European or American media or, in the case of Billy Tipton, by his coroner.
After him in the 19th century in Russia there were written such operatic masterpieces as Rusalka and The Stone Guest by Alexander Dargomyzhsky, Boris Godunov and Khovanshchina by Modest Mussorgsky, Prince Igor by Alexander Borodin, Eugene Onegin and The Queen of Spades by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, and The Snow Maiden and Sadko by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
The Bambuti were linked to Pygmy tribes whose Stone Age culture was slowly replaced by Bantu tribes coming from regions north of present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo about 2, 000 years ago, introducing Iron Age culture to the region.

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Against the dramatic fight being waged for preservation of 30 miles of Cape Cod shoreline, the tiny tract at Stone Harbor may seem unimportant.
In June 2001, a Komodo dragon seriously injured Phil Bronstein, the then husband of actress Sharon Stone, when he entered its enclosure at the Los Angeles Zoo after being invited in by its keeper.
Evelyn Evelyn has been featured in three of the four publications ( Rolling Stone being the exception ).
While being interviewed for a February 2009 issue of Rolling Stone magazine, Kurzweil expressed a desire to construct a genetic copy of his late father, Fredric Kurzweil, from DNA within his grave site.
For example, fully understanding the key set of genes to the human leucocyte antigen has been described as being " the Rosetta Stone of immunology ".
The Stone Age is nearly contemporaneous with the evolution of the genus Homo, the only exception possibly being at the very beginning, when species prior to Homo may have manufactured tools.
On May 12, 1921, just two months into Harding's presidency, violence was initiated near Matewan, West Virginia, between private detectives, on behalf of the Stone Mountain Coal Company, and United Mine Workers union members who had been fired from their jobs and were being evicted from company-owned housing.
In 2003, X's first two studio albums, Los Angeles and Wild Gift, were ranked by Rolling Stone magazine as being among the 500 greatest albums of all time.
Although they failed to achieve further success in 1986, their repertoire expanded to include songs such as " Sugar Spun Sister ", taking on influences from bands such as The Jesus & Mary Chain and the indie-pop era Primal Scream (" Velocity Girl " being a major influence on " Made of Stone "), and they stopped playing the older songs.
The town has been inhabited since the Stone Age according to archeological finds, and Dover is one of only a few places in Britain – London and Cornwall being other examples – to have a corresponding name in the French language, Douvres.
A fragment of the ' Stone Classics ' ( 熹平石經 ); these stone-carved Five Classics installed during Emperor Ling of Han | Emperor Ling's reign along the roadside of the Taixue | Imperial University ( right outside Luoyang ) were made at the instigation of Cai Yong ( 132 – 192 CE ), who feared the Classics housed in the imperial library were being Interpolation ( manuscripts ) | interpolated by University Academicians.
In 1363, David went to London and agreed that should he die childless, the crown would pass to Edward ( his brother-in-law ) or one of his sons, with the Stone of Destiny being returned for their coronation as King of Scots.
2011 novel by Jeanette Baker " Legacy " ( Casablanca Classics ) is a fictional account of the possibility of the original Stone of Scone being hidden away and a replica taken to Westminster.
In 1969, Rolling Stone editor Jann Wenner credited Cream with being the first supergroup.
The band were unable to promote the album, albeit with the exception of an appearance on Later ... with Jools Holland and a few performances of " Stone by Stone ", as Cerys Matthews was being treated for alcohol and smoking problems.
His interest in oriental languages, especially Coptic, led to his being entrusted with the task of deciphering the writing on the then recently-discovered Rosetta Stone, and he spent the years 1822 – 1824 on this task.
One of the stones, the 9th century Drosten Stone, has the distinction of being one of the few Pictish artefacts to have an inscription in Latin text: ' DROSTEN: IREUORET TTFOR CUS ', which has been interpreted in various ways, but it is thought that the second line refers to the Pictish King Uurad, who reigned between 839 and 842 AD.
On February 23, 2009 Axel Addington, Web Content Manager for Atomium, e-mailed a clarification to the Glass Steel and Stone web site, which some years earlier redacted its photographs of the Atomium after being threatened.
Stone shot being one-third the weight of those of iron the powder charge was reduced in proportion, and this also effected an economy.
The band was unsuccessful in being able to fully tour in support of Tiny Music .... A short tour in the fall of 1996 ensued in the U. S. but final dates at the end of December in Hawaii had to be cancelled, including a further tour in 1997 ; as a result of Weiland's personal issues, Stone Temple Pilots went on hiatus.
Despite being unpopular with critics in their heyday, Stone Temple Pilots have proved to be a popular and influential act.
The county has several important prehistoric sites, the most significant being Old Stone Fort State Archaeological Area at the forks of the Duck River.

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