`` The white colonnaded, cedar-roofed Southern mansion is directly traceable via the grey and buff stone of grey-skied England to the golden stucco of one particular part of the blue South, the Palladian orbit stretching out from Vicenza: the old mind of Andrea Palladio still smiles from behind many an old rocking chair on a Southern porch, the deep friezes of his architectonic music rise firm above the shallower freeze in the kitchen, his feeling for light and shade brings a glitter from a tall mint julep, his sense of columns framing the warm velvet night has brought together a million couple of mating lips ''.

The rounded shapes of the gaps and the lip-like edges carved into the stone surrounding them create a semblance of a fully open mouth, for which the Casa Batlló has been nicknamed the " house of yawns.

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

It was made from a single stone and has four curved handles bearing the head of a bull.

Four times has the artist embodied in stone the goddess of youth, and each time with some variation.

"... Turquoise was chosen because the greenish-blue stone is indigenous to Arizona, copper because Arizona is one the nation's top copper-producing states and purple because it has become a favorite color for Arizona sports fans, thanks to the success of the National Basketball Association's Phoenix Suns.

The dedication stone for the church has survived to the present day ; it is dated 23 April 685, and as Bede would have been required to assist with menial tasks in his day-to-day life it is possible that he helped in building the original church.

Conservation has six specialist areas: ceramics & glass ; metals ; organic material ( including textiles ); stone, wall paintings and mosaics ; Eastern pictorial art and Western pictorial art.

Today the cross, which is a replacement, is about 3 feet 4 inches ( 1 m ) tall and 1 foot 8 inches ( 0. 5 m ) across at the crosspiece, and it has its base in a socket stone which rests on a pedestal of granite blocks that raises the total height of the cross to 7 ft ( 2. 1 m ).

Glebe cairn in Kilmartin Glen in Argyll dates from 1700 BC and has two stone cists inside one of which a jet necklace was found during 19th century excavations.

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.

Dolmens were usually covered with earth or smaller stones to form a barrow, though in many cases that covering has weathered away, leaving only the stone " skeleton " of the burial mound intact.

: The categorical proposition " No stone is living " has the same meaning as the existential proposition " A living stone does not exist " or " there is no living stone ".

On the other hand, the statement " A bridge crosses the Styx at Limbo " has the same form, but while in the first case we understand a real bridge in the real world made of stone or brick, what " existence " would mean in the second case is less clear.

The U. S. Federal Trade Commission ( FTC ) has very strict regulations as to what can and what cannot be called " synthetic " stone.

The FTC says: "§ 23. 23 ( c ) It is unfair or deceptive to use the word " laboratory-grown ," " laboratory-created ," " name-created ," or " synthetic " with the name of any natural stone to describe any industry product unless such industry product has essentially the same optical, physical, and chemical properties as the stone named.

On the reverse of the stone is another image parallel to it that has been described as Christ triumphing over Satan.

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.

Graffiti has become a common stepping stone for many members of both the art and design community in North America and abroad.

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 ).

I. E. S. Edwards discusses Strabo's mention that the pyramid " a little way up one side has a stone that may be taken out, which being raised up there is a sloping passage to the foundations.

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

In 2010, during an excavation at the Sibudu Cave in South Africa, led by Professor Lyn Wadley from the University of the Witwatersrand, researchers discovered the earliest direct evidence of human-made arrowheads: 64, 000-year-old stone points which may have been shot from a bow.

Early ranged weapons include thrown weapons such as javelins, slings, darts, the bow and arrow, and medieval siege engines like stone throwers, catapults, ballistas and trebuchets.

The members of Youngblood include Shaft, a former FBI agent and archer whose bow uses magnets to propel its arrow instead of a string ; Badrock, a teenager transformed into a living block of stone ; Vogue, a Russian fashion model with purple-and-chalk-white skin ; and Chapel, a government assassin.

They also collected 797 objects from the area, including vessels of wood, bronze objects, jewelry and coins, and Mesolithic stone tools Other reported ( 2003 ) finds in the area include additional mummies and burial grounds, ephedra sticks, a string bracelet that holds a hollowed jade stone, a leather pouch, a woolen loincloth, a wooden mask painted red and with large nose and teeth, boat-shaped coffins, a bow with arrows and a straw basket.

The Solutrean culture, extended from northern Spain to south-east France, includes not only a beautiful stone technology but also the first significant development of cave painting, the use of the needle and possibly that of the bow and arrow.

Excavations of Effigy Mound Builders ' village sites indicated they lived in small nomadic groups, hunted, fished, gathered fruits and nuts, fashioned tools of stone, wood, bone and copper, made pottery and may have been the first people in Wisconsin to use the bow and arrow.

The stone sea walls of the island were sculptured to create the shape of a ship with a bow ( pointing towards Drummoyne ) and a stern ( pointing towards Cockatoo Island ).

The other is stone and ' Time Binding ', through the construction of temples and the pyramids can sustain their authority generation to generation, through this media they can change and shape communication in their society ( Wark, McKenzie 1997 ).

Laid in the shape of arches, vaults and domes, it quickly hardened into a rigid mass, free from many of the internal thrusts and strains that troubled the builders of similar structures in stone or brick.

They are rectangular or trapezoidal in shape with a small enclosing chamber faced with large slabs of stone set on end and sometimes subdivided into smaller compartments.

A kistvaen or cistvaen is a tomb or burial chamber formed from flat stone slabs in a box-like shape.

It is surrounded by a stone border in the shape of a football stadium.

Within this circle stood five trilithons of dressed sarsen stone arranged in a horseshoe shape across with its open end facing north east.

" I didn't want to create a monument to heroes, no theatrical representation, no pathos, but wanted to appear more unassumingly with a frugal shape, hewn in stone, dignifying the actual place of the incident.

* Dalton Tradition, a distinctive shape of stone arrowhead

Physical factors include the original shape of the rough stone, and location of the inclusions and flaws to be eliminated.

Many of the buildings are in remarkably good shape, particularly since, due to the lack of available stone, a significant quantity of the sites stonework contains egg and gravel based concrete blocks.

The legend is also depicted on the Altuna Runestone, but its image does not show Hymir, possibly due to the narrow shape of that stone.

The idea implicit in all these rites, is that certain stones have the power to make sterile women fruitful, either because of the spirits of the ancestors that dwell in them, or because of their shape ( the pregnant woman, " woman stone "), or because of their origin (" autogenesis ").

Wherever lightning strikes, priests search the surrounding area for the thrown stone which usually has a double-headed axe shape, like his weapon.

The cap ( roof ), is of stone, usually conical in shape, although some of the towers are now crowned by a later circle of battlements.

The shape and manufacture of these adzes is similar to those found from the Neolithic stone age in Europe.

The retreating glaciers of the last ice age did much to shape the landscape of Putnam Valley, including the shearing of hills to expose springs ( creating, for example Bryant Pond ) and leaving the glacial deposits of stone and large boulders.

This castle was square in shape and was one of the earliest stone castles to be built in Scotland.

These softer materials are easier to shape than stone hammers, and therefore can be made into more precise tools.

Force may be introduced by direct percussion ( striking the core with a percussor such as a rock or antler ), indirect percussion ( striking the core with an object, sometimes referred to as a " punch ," which itself is struck by a percussor, similar to the use of a hammer and chisel to shape stone ), or by pressure.

Standing a core on edge on an anvil stone, he hits the exposed edge with centripetal blows of a hard hammer to roughly shape the implement.

In archaeology, a grinding slab is a ground stone artifact generally used to grind plant materials into usable size, though some slabs were used to shape other ground stone artifacts.

Early knappers could have used simple hammers made of wood or antler to shape stone tools.

Soft hammer techniques allow a knapper to shape a stone into many different kinds of cutting, scraping, and projectile tools.