toolmaking

Mechanical engineering and toolmaking were the main industries practised within the town.

True or False: The art of toolmaking has steadily improved over the years.

There, the Natives used flint deposits to tip their arrows and for other toolmaking.

Working with archeologists, they are instructed in mapping, desert ecology and primitive toolmaking.

It was known for its distinctive toolmaking characterized by bifacial, percussion and pressure-flaked points.

This was followed by a sudden flowering of fine toolmaking, sophisticated weaponry, sculpture, cave painting, body ornaments, and long-distance trade.

He had devoted the pages to scholarly accounts of native toolmaking and detailed descriptions of poking through ancient rubble.

All of which suggests that, though it could still do well in trees, it was probably capable of handling the punishment involved in early toolmaking.

If confirmed, the discovery could mean that toolmaking was not in itself the decisive evolutionary step in the rise of the human species, as is usually thought.

No human fossils had previously been directly associated with the early toolmaking, or Acheulian industries, of Britain and Europe.

At the age of eight he started work in a textile mill and at fifteen became an apprentice at a toolmaking and foundry company.

The style of toolmaking was named after Folsom, New Mexico where the first sample was found within the bone structure of a bison in 1927.

In the same year the Zumtobel Licht Toolmaking division began working on stereolithography.

Judy Kalin, a Seneca, will cook, and her husband, John, a Cherokee, will demonstrate traditional toolmaking.

In: Axe Age: Acheulian Toolmaking - from Quarry to Discard .

They also undertook some toolmaking for another Glasgow company, William Beardmore and Company; and, for a short time, produced aircraft radiators.

Nor was it surprising that the thumbs of Homo erectus and Homo sapiens neanderthalensis were of the toolmaking and tool-using type.

His techniques are widely imitated by knappers, and ethnographic accounts of his toolmaking are considered to be the Rosetta Stone of lithic tool manufacture.

Enlarged apical tufts, to the extent they actually reflect expanded digital pulps, may have played a significant role in enhancing friction between the hand and held objects during Neolithic toolmaking.

Sestroretsk was founded by Peter the Great in 1714 due to the construction of a munitions factory (today's Sestroretsk Toolmaking Factory).

And it certainly opened the way for later toolmaking, some 2.5 million years ago, and probably set the stage for the eventual enlargement of the hominid brain, not before two million years ago.

Among other things, the traditional use of Mohawk Valley flint as Toolmaking Flint is only one attribution to the Mohawk Valley People of the Flint name.

Another archaeologist, Dr. Alison Brooks of George Washington University, who has reported finding other early examples of African toolmaking in Congo, called Blombos Cave "a tremendously exciting site."

But whether crow toolmaking is planned or not, he added, Mr. Hunt's "fascinating paper gives much food for thought and argument," showing at least that "tool use in birds is less stereotyped than previously thought."