hammerstones

Underfoot everywhere were thousands of flakes and larger fractured chunks, discarded small cutting tools and hammerstones.29 Dudley called this a “lithic procurement site.”

Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

Underfoot everywhere were thousands of flakes and larger fractured chunks, discarded small cutting tools and hammerstones.29 Dudley called this a “lithic procurement site.”

Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

Underfoot everywhere were thousands of flakes and larger fractured chunks, discarded small cutting tools and hammerstones.29 Dudley called this a “lithic procurement site.”

Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

Underfoot everywhere were thousands of flakes and larger fractured chunks, discarded small cutting tools and hammerstones.29 Dudley called this a “lithic procurement site.”

Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

The only edible part left was the bone marrow that tool-using hominids obtained using hammerstones to crack open the bones.

Not Always at the Top of the Food Chain 2006

The only edible part left was the bone marrow that tool-using hominids obtained using hammerstones to crack open the bones.

Archive 2006-01-01 2006

At the north end of the enclosure is a possible ritual area: a line of shallow pits containing "arrangements" of hammerstones, rubbing stones, and quartz separate this area from sections of domestic activity.

Ballynashllog Jackpot 2000

The excavators also found a pile of 20 chert pebbles plus four small quartz pebbles, possible hammerstones.

Pre-Clovis Surprise 1999

Some of the antelope limb bones show evidence of having been bashed open by hammerstones.

New Species Found 1999

In the process, they unearthed 2,600 specimens, while Mary sat nearby numbering and mapping each item: handaxes, cleavers, scrapers, awls and pitted stones, cobbles and hammerstones, and a variety of animal bones.

Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995