Stone tools are first attested around 2. 6 Ma, when H. habilis in Eastern Africa used so-called pebble tools, choppers made out of round pebbles that had been split by simple strikes.

Stone tools discovered at Lézignan-la-Cèbe in 2009 indicate that early man was present in France at least 2 years ago.

Stone tools were used by perhaps as many as hundreds of people to create the pillars, which may have supported roofs.

Modern Awash River, Ethiopia, descendant of the Palaeo-Awash, source of the sediments in which the oldest Stone Age tools have been found

Stone Age artifacts include tools used by humans and by their predecessor species in the genus Homo, as well as the earlier partly contemporaneous genera Australopithecus and Paranthropus.

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

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.

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

Once seriously questioned, the intermediates did not wait for the next Pan African Congress two years hence, but were officially rejected in 1965 ( again on an advisory basis ) by Burg Wartenstein Conference # 29, Systematic Investigation of the African Later Tertiary and Quarternary, a prestigious conference in anthropology held by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, at Burg Wartenstein Castle, which it then owned in Austria, attended by the same key scholars that attended the Pan African Congress, including Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey, who was delivering a pilot presentation of her typological analysis of Early Stone Age tools, to be included in her 1971 contribution to Olduvai Gorge, " Excavations in Beds I and II, 1960-1963.

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.

The presence of microlithic tools in Zanzibar attests to at least 50, 000 years of human occupation, which was the beginning of the Later Stone Age.

Flint was used for the manufacture of flint tools during the Stone Age as it splits into thin, sharp splinters called flakes or blades ( depending on the shape ) when struck by another hard object ( such as a hammerstone made of another material ).

Obsidian and stone tools found at excavation sites near Jōraku-ji were dated to the Old Stone Age ( between 100, 000 and 10, 000 years ago ).

Chinese jade was attributed with magical powers, and was used in the Stone and Bronze Ages for large and impractical versions of everyday weapons and tools, as well as the bi disks and cong vessels.

The first pies appeared around 9500 BC, in the Egyptian Neolithic period or New Stone Age, when the use of stone tools shaped by polishing or grinding became common, the domestication of plants and animals, the establishment of permanent villages, and the practice of crafts such as pottery and weaving.

The Quetta Archaeological Museum, located on Fifa Road has a collection of rare antique guns, swords, manuscripts and a display of Stone Age tools, prehistoric pottery and articles found in Mehrgarh.

Stone Age tools have been found in several areas of Orpington, including Goddington Park, Priory Gardens, the Ramsden estate, and Poverest.

Stone Age tools were discovered in the Sânpetru ( Saint Peter ) hill near the castle and in the surrounding villages.

Although stone tool-dependent societies and cultures still exist today, most stone tools are associated with prehistoric, particularly Stone Age cultures that have become extinct.

Stone has been used to make a wide variety of different tools throughout history, including arrow heads, spearpoints and querns.

Stone tools may be made of either ground stone or chipped stone, and a person who creates tools out of the latter is known as a flintknapper.

Stone implements found in the Tian Shan mountains indicate the presence of human society in what is now Kyrgyzstan as many as 200, 000 to 300, 000 years ago.

Modern studies and the in-depth analysis of finds dating from the Stone Age indicate certain rituals and beliefs of the people in those prehistoric times.

Parker and Stone have always asserted that due to Cartman's actions and dialogue, his appearances in South Park are not meant to be viewed by younger children, and they note that the show is certified with TV ratings that indicate its intention for mature audiences.

Wilkinson reconstructs the Annals as giving Djoser " 28 complete or partial years ", noting that the cattle counts recorded on Palermo Stone register V, and Cairo Fragment 1 register V, for the beginning and ending of Djoser's reign, would most likely indicate his regnal Years 1 – 5 and 19 – 28.

Discoveries in the bodden indicate that there has been settlement here since the Stone Age.

Archaeological finds indicate an early prehistoric settlement, including objects made of flint dating from the earliest Stone Age.

" Moreover, S. Boyd Eaton and colleagues have indicated that " comparative genetic data provide compelling evidence against the contention that long exposure to agricultural and industrial circumstances has distanced us, genetically, from our Stone Age ancestors " however they mention exceptions such as increased lactose and gluten tolerance, which improve ability to digest dairy and grains, while other studies indicate that human adaptive evolution has accelerated since the Paleolithic.

Of the material sold during the 1936 Sotheby's auction, several documents indicate an interest by Newton in the procurement or development of The Philosopher's Stone.

While there is no single, accepted sequence that all archaeologists agree upon, the basic conventions indicate a number of Stone Ages, followed by a Copper / Stone age, in turn followed by a Bronze Age.

This, however, does not indicate their disrespect to the Black Stone, but their belief that harm and benefit are in the hands of God, and nothing else.

Stone tools found in the area indicate human settlement as far back as 10000 BCE.

Jim Naureckas, writing for Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, counters that Klehr, Haynes, and Vassiliev's allegations, if true, indicate merely that Stone was " just gossiping ," and he assails the authors for their " nefarious " and " tendentious " magnification of “ relatively innocuous behavior ” on the basis of one anti-Nazi maneuver.

Archeological findings indicate that the area was inhabited as early as the Stone Age.

In the DVD commentary, Parker and Stone indicate they planned to make Butters the fourth group member after Kenny was written off the show, and created this episode as a prelude to his assuming a more prominent role in the series.

* Stone motherless: Expression used to indicate that a horse is running a clear last in a race, or is tailed off at the finish.

The objects were signed with runes or other marks in order to indicate the reason for the assembly ( e. g. election of king at the Stone of Mora ), and who had sent them.

Finds in the south of Zesgehuchten ( a district of Geldrop ) indicate small settlements from the New Stone Age ( about 3000 BC ).

Surviving vestiges of caves, grottos and ancient places in and around Saydnaya indicate that it was inhabited by different civilizations from the early Stone Age, with artifacts from Aramaic, Greek, Syriac, Roman, and Arab times.

Although not much is known about the Ciboney people who inhabited the islands during the Stone Age, archaeological evidence seems to indicate that they were hunter-gatherers.

As early American Indians lacked the proper pottery that could be used directly over a fire, they developed a technique which has caused many anthropologists to call them " Stone Boilers ".

The early 19th-century editions of Encyclopædia Britannica included wikt: seminal # English | seminal research such as Thomas Young ( scientist ) | Thomas Young's article on Egypt, which included the translation of the Egyptian hieroglyphs | hieroglyphs on the Rosetta Stone ( pictured ).

Prior to that, hunting by local natives can be documented from Late Stone Age Scandinavia and eastern North America, as well as from early 5th century Labrador, where the bird seems to have occurred only as a straggler.

Stone hand-axes from early hominoids, probably Homo Erectus, have been unearthed in Lenggong.

In early 1960, Brown's band recorded the top ten R & B hit, "( Do the ) Mashed Potatoes " on Dade Records, owned by Henry Stone, under the pseudonym " Nat Kendrick & The Swans " because Brown's label refused to release it.

Stone stelae, votive offerings, or ones probably commemmorating victories and showing feasts, are also found from temples, which unlike more official ones lack inscriptions that would explain them ; the fragmentary Stele of the Vultures is an early example of the inscribed type, and the Assyrian Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III a large and solid late one.

The three-lithics are subdivisions of the Stone Age in the three-age system developed since classical times and given a modern archaeological meaning by Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, a Danish archaeologist, in the early 19th century.

Due to the innovation of a three-stage system for African archaeology by John Hilary Goodman and Clarence van Riet Lowe of South Africa in the early 20th century, translations of " Old ," " Middle ," and " New Stone Age " can no longer be used for Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic.

A replica of the Rosetta Stone as it would have appeared to early 19th-century visitors — without a case and free to touch — is now available in the King's Library of the British Museum.

The French Orientalist Antoine-Isaac Silvestre de Sacy, who had been discussing this work with Åkerblad, received in 1801 from Jean-Antoine Chaptal, French minister of the interior, one of the early lithographic prints of the Rosetta Stone, and realised that the middle text was in this same script.

The five months he collaborated with Budd Schulberg on a screenplay tentatively titled A Stone in the River Hudson, an early version of On the Waterfront was also a major disappointment for Siodmak.

In the words of J. Desmond Clark, " It was early realized that the threefold division of culture into Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages adopted in the nineteenth century for Europe had no validity in Africa outside the Nile valley.

In early 1988 the band played at Dingwalls in London, a show attended by representatives of Zomba and Rough Trade's Geoff Travis, and both subsequently wanted to sign the band, Rough Trade even funding studio time to record a single, " Elephant Stone ", with Peter Hook producing.

In 1988 and early 1989 The Stone Roses recorded their debut album at Battery Studios and Konk Studios in London and Rockfield Studios in Wales, produced by Leckie.

The first single for Silvertone, " Elephant Stone ", made little impact, and in early 1989 the band's performances outside the north-west were still attracting small audiences.

The history of Austria covers the history of Austria and its predecessor states, from the farming communities of the early Stone Age, through to the present sovereign state.

Human habitation of current Austria can be traced back to the first farming communities of the early Stone Age.

Birds were perhaps important as a food source, and bones of as many as 80 species have been found in excavations of early Stone Age settlements.

* Barton Stone, Presbyterian non-Calvinist, then early leader of the Restoration Movement

Other musicians, and at least one comedian, who have sung Numan's praises in recent years include Beck, Grant Nicholas, Tricky, Damon Albarn & Matt Sharp, Jarvis Cocker, Queens of the Stone Age, David Bowie, Noel Fielding and Afrika Bambaataa, who spoke of the influence Numan's music had on the fledgling American DJ scene: " In the late 70s and early 80s Gary had the rhythms that DJs wanted to get hold of and people waited for his records on the dance floor.

Stone of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation ( NYSDEC ) who first published his findings in the early 1970s that PCBs were leaking from transformers and had contaminated the soil at the bottom of utility poles.

* Prior to 3500 BCE ( prehistory – Stone Age and Chalcolithic ): hunter-gatherer societies slowly giving way to farming and herding societies, and early metal-working in the last thousand years ;

As early as 1673, just months after Pierrot had made his debut in the Sequel to " The Stone Guest ", Scaramouche Tiberio Fiorilli and a troupe assembled from the Comédie-Italienne entertained Londoners with selections from their Parisian repertoire.