How to Use Stone Age in a Sentence
Stone Age
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The area is close to chalk bedrock, so flint would have been available to Stone Age tool makers.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 19 Oct. 2023
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Gone from our tables are the roasted hedgehogs of Stone Age Britain and the flamingo tongues of ancient Rome.
—Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 26 July 2023
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In 2010, Jericho celebrated being the oldest walled city in the world, dating back to the modern Stone Age.
—Kareem Khadder, CNN, 17 Sep. 2023
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The oldest specimen in the lab is an 8,000-year-old brain from Stone Age Sweden, which was mounted on a spike before burial in a lakebed.
—Katie Hunt, CNN, 25 Mar. 2024
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And last year, for the first time in decades, the town revived its annual festival, now called the Dinosaur Stone Age Stampede, with food, games, and music.
—Markian Hawryluk, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2023
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Lions loomed large in the psyche of Stone Age hominins, who painted them on cave walls and carved their likenesses into bone and ivory ornaments.
—Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 2 Nov. 2023
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But the carbon-14 dating determined they were made during the Mesolithic era, or Middle Stone Age, when hunter-gatherer lifestyles were still prevalent.
—Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Oct. 2023
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Archaeologists also found five Stone Age workshops where different types of rock were shaped into tools, the study said.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2024
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Denmark’s Jutland Heath, a vast, sprawling expanse of near-barren land depleted by Stone Age farmers, where only a rolling rug of mauve-brown heather survives its sandy soil.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 1 Sep. 2023
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The Neolithic period, which is also called the New Stone Age, is one of the most important transitions in human society.
—Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 13 Oct. 2023
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Quintessentially Scottish coastlines, whiskey distilleries, and Stone Age remains are just a ferry ride away.
—Alex Schechter, Travel + Leisure, 30 Apr. 2023
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Additionally, the authors say that this discovery challenges the view that Stone Age humans were nomadic.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 20 Sep. 2023
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The site had an unusually high abundance of fish compared to other Stone Age sites, suggesting that people captured more fish as waterholes shrank during the dry season.
—Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Mar. 2024
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Painting this clearer picture of Stone Age people, the team says, was only possible by examining chewing gum.
—Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Jan. 2024
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The area is an archaeological treasure trove, with evidence of activity by humans and our early ancestors spanning from the Early Stone Age to nearly modern times.
—Tom Metcalfe, Scientific American, 20 Sep. 2023
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Globally, unmapped Stone Age villages have been erased by freeways, airports, and industrial agriculture.
—WIRED, 28 Sep. 2023
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The area is close to chalk bedrock, so flint would have been available to Stone Age tool makers.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 19 Oct. 2023
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Gone from our tables are the roasted hedgehogs of Stone Age Britain and the flamingo tongues of ancient Rome.
—Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 26 July 2023
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In 2010, Jericho celebrated being the oldest walled city in the world, dating back to the modern Stone Age.
—Kareem Khadder, CNN, 17 Sep. 2023
-
The oldest specimen in the lab is an 8,000-year-old brain from Stone Age Sweden, which was mounted on a spike before burial in a lakebed.
—Katie Hunt, CNN, 25 Mar. 2024
-
And last year, for the first time in decades, the town revived its annual festival, now called the Dinosaur Stone Age Stampede, with food, games, and music.
—Markian Hawryluk, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2023
-
Lions loomed large in the psyche of Stone Age hominins, who painted them on cave walls and carved their likenesses into bone and ivory ornaments.
—Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 2 Nov. 2023
-
But the carbon-14 dating determined they were made during the Mesolithic era, or Middle Stone Age, when hunter-gatherer lifestyles were still prevalent.
—Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Oct. 2023
-
Archaeologists also found five Stone Age workshops where different types of rock were shaped into tools, the study said.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2024
-
Denmark’s Jutland Heath, a vast, sprawling expanse of near-barren land depleted by Stone Age farmers, where only a rolling rug of mauve-brown heather survives its sandy soil.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 1 Sep. 2023
-
The Neolithic period, which is also called the New Stone Age, is one of the most important transitions in human society.
—Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 13 Oct. 2023
-
Quintessentially Scottish coastlines, whiskey distilleries, and Stone Age remains are just a ferry ride away.
—Alex Schechter, Travel + Leisure, 30 Apr. 2023
-
Additionally, the authors say that this discovery challenges the view that Stone Age humans were nomadic.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 20 Sep. 2023
-
The site had an unusually high abundance of fish compared to other Stone Age sites, suggesting that people captured more fish as waterholes shrank during the dry season.
—Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Mar. 2024
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Painting this clearer picture of Stone Age people, the team says, was only possible by examining chewing gum.
—Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Jan. 2024
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