The place is inhabited by several hundred warlike women who are anachronisms of the Twentieth Century -- stone age amazons who live in an all-female, matriarchal society which is self-sufficient ''.

Amber has been used since the stone age, from 13, 000 years ago.

The oldest Australian Aboriginal boomerangs are ten thousand years old, but older hunting sticks have been discovered in Europe, where they seem to have formed part of the stone age arsenal of weapons.

The earliest settlers to Prehistoric Europe came during the paleolithic or " old stone " age, when humans first made use of primitve stone tools.

There are areas, such as the islands of the South Pacific, the interior of Africa, and parts of North and South America, where peoples have passed directly from the use of stone to the use of iron without the intervention of an age of bronze.

In the territory now covered by the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, there is evidence of primitive inhabitants right back to the Paleolithic or old stone age over 35, 000 years ago.

Early hunter-gatherer tribes made stone weapons from around 10, 000 years ago ; as the age of metallurgy dawned, newer technologies were used and more efficient weapons produced.

Cultivation of opium poppies for food, anaesthesia, and ritual purposes dates back to at least the Neolithic Age ( new stone age ).

Within and outside the Mahars ' domain are scattered independent human cultures, most of them at the stone age level of development.

Several minute granite tools ( about 4 centimetres in length ), earthenware, remnants of charred timber, and clay burial pots date to the Mesolithic stone age.

the start of the colonis in Syria go back to the beginning of human settlement in the stone age.

At the beginning of the Paleolithic the stone age, the number of these autonomous political units must have been small, but by 1000 B. C.

While it is possible to speak of a general ' stone age ' period for the whole of humanity, some groups never developed metal-smelting technology, so remained in a ' stone age ' until they encountered technologically developed cultures.

As a description of people living today, the term stone age is controversial.

There is evidence of the exchange of obsidian and flint during the stone age.

In November 2001, Taliban, Al-Qaeda combatants and ISI operatives were safely evacuated from Kunduz on Pakistan Army cargo aircraft to Pakistan Air Force bases in Chitral and Gilgit in Pakistan's Northern Areas in what has been dubbed the " Airlift of Evil " Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf wrote in his memoirs that Richard Armitage, the former US deputy secretary of state, said Pakistan would be " bombed back to the stone-age " if it continued to support the Taliban, although Armitage has since denied using the " stone age " phrase.

Jomon pottery, Japanese stone age.

They were bushman, and hunters and gatherers who lived a nomadic life, with stone age technology.

In the Early Minoan age these were formed of soft stone and ivory and show particular characteristic forms.

Humans must have observed birds from the earliest times, and stone age drawings are among the oldest indications of an interest in birds.

In England, neolithic or bronze age stone carvings of the symbol have been found on Ilkley Moor.

The town is the location of Sueno's Stone, an enormous carved stone probably created by Picts to commemorate a battle against Norse invaders.

" Arthur is made Duke and Battlechief of Britain after drawing the sword of Maximus from a stone, but must fight back the Saecsens and barbarian invaders and unite the peoples of Britain before he can be accepted as High King.

The invaders, commonly referred to as the Cro-Magnons, left many sophisticated stone tools, carved and engraved pieces on bone, ivory and antler, cave paintings and Venus figurines.

I will not use the knife, not even on sufferers from stone, but will withdraw in favor of such men as are engaged in this work.

** The " Nāga bridge " at the entrance to the 12th century city of Angkor Thom is lined with large stone statues of Devas and Asuras engaged in churning the Ocean of Milk.

A little closer to the stone ruins is Lake Kyle, a huge body of water where people spend time engaged in recreational actives in Mutirikwi Recreational Park.

The exterior of the stone structure features large engaged Hathor heads, a freize, and other more subtle ancient Egyptian architectural influences.

However he engaged the Scots engineer David Lennox to build a stone arch bridge across the mouth of a particularly deep side gully, and this bridge is still in use, although it has been restored several times.

Following the Conquest a large Norman church was built out of local stone to serve the local population who were engaged with agricultural and rural employment during the mediaeval period.

He was a member of the Republican National Committee from 1900 to 1912, serving as chairman from 1907 to 1908, and later engaged in the stone quarrying and construction business.

In the past, quarrying supplied slate and stone for building materials but most of the villagers were engaged in hand looming and wool combing in their own homes.

The buildings are all of stone, and the mechanical equipment could not be surpassed in efficacy at the present day, for it includes the latest and best improvements in all kinds of apparatus that can be advantageously brought to bear upon such an industry as that here engaged in.

However, after 17 volleys, the British numbers began to overwhelm the Americans and Glover ordered a withdrawal to another stone wall on the crest of a hill while the next regiment in line, the 26th Continentals, engaged the British.

In the 6th millennium BC, the aceramic Choirokoitia culture ( Neolithic I ) was characterized by round houses ( tholoi ), stone vessels and an economy based on sheep, goats and pigs. The daily life of the people in those Neolithic villages was spent in farming, hunting, animal husbandry and the lithic industry, while homesteaders ( likely women ) were engaged in spindling and weaving cloths, in addition to their probable participation in other activities.

In the city territory there is a unique in CIS Sidorenko Scientific Research Institute of Irrigated Horticulture ( Ukrainian Academy of Agrarian Sciences ), that is professionally engaged in selection of stone fruit corps ( cherries, apples, peaches, etc .).

The left panel depicts God presenting Eve to Adam, the central panel is a broad panorama of sexually engaged nude figures, fantastical animals, oversized fruit and hybrid stone formations.

In the 1850s, Lord Ward ( the Earl of Dudley ) engaged the architect Samuel Daukes, who had already altered his London house, Dudley House on Park Lane and the church at Great Witley, to remodel the house in Italianate style using ashlar stone cladding over the existing red brickwork.

Meanwhile, Subutai went south to build a makeshift emergency bridge while the Hungarians were engaged at the main bridge, but left Batu a plan to use giant stone throwers to clear the crossbowmen opposing them.

From wood carving he turned to stone carving, and in 1820 was engaged on the Ionic capitals and other stonework of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Boston, the first example of Greek Revival architecture in Boston.

This lifting appliance also has a safety locking device that is engaged when the gripping pads are activated by the weight of the stone.

The foundation stone of Goodhue's original design, a vast, unified barrel-vaulted space, without side aisles or chapels and with severely reduced transepts, was laid 1 May 1917 and the construction was sufficiently far along for the church to be consecrated in 1918 ; its design was altered during construction, after Goodhue's sudden, unexpected death in 1924, by his office associates, in partnership as Mayers, Murray and Philips ; they were engaged in erecting the community house, continuing with the same materials, subtly variegated salmon and cream-colored bricks and creamy Indiana limestone ; they designed the terrace that still provides the equivalent of a small square, surrounded by the cliff-like facades of Midtown commercial structures ( illustration, upper right ); in summer, supplied with umbrellas and tables, it becomes the outside dining area for the restaurant, Inside Park.

While working on the sandblasting process, he was also engaged in the working of stone, which caused him to invent a production method for iron shot-pouring a stream of molten metal onto a revolving surface, from which the globules would be propelled into cold water ( US patent 187, 239, 1872 ).

By 1695, the Pickford family was engaged in supplying quarry stone by packhorse for the construction of turnpike roads ; instead of the packhorses returning with empty loads, they carried goods for third parties.