How to Use toolmaking in a Sentence

toolmaking

noun

• Until then, it was assumed that toolmaking was exclusive to man.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Oct. 2017
• If toolmaking was more of an unstudied crapshoot, scientists would expect tools of all kinds to be made with all three of these families of stone.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 5 Feb. 2020
• Regardless of species, the toolmaking behavior is learned: Young monkeys spend years mastering the technique, and not all troops partake.
  — Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 12 June 2019
• Somehow, African and Indian hominins were developing the same toolmaking skills at roughly the same time.
  — Annalee Newitz, Ars Technica, 31 Jan. 2018
• Some scientists think these styles of toolmaking are passed down through each generation, which is a good definition of culture.
  — National Geographic, 15 May 2016
• Some scientists think these styles of toolmaking are passed down through each generation, which is a good definition of culture.
  — National Geographic, 15 May 2016
• Blobs of pitch imprinted with human teeth marks have been found at ancient toolmaking sites, where archaeologists surmise the pitch was chewed to soften before use.
  — Kristin Romey, National Geographic, 17 Dec. 2019
• These birds are renowned for their incredible problem-solving abilities and for their capacity to make and use complex tools, which rivals the big primate toolmaking skills.
  — National Geographic, 15 May 2016
• These birds are renowned for their incredible problem-solving abilities and for their capacity to make and use complex tools, which rivals the big primate toolmaking skills.
  — National Geographic, 15 May 2016
• Potts stresses that Africa was dynamic place during the long era of human evolution, and adaptability—like that afforded by stone toolmaking—was key to survival.
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Feb. 2023
• Members learn from one another, pass down traditions — a navigation route, a toolmaking skill, even a parrot’s dialect — in a way that was once thought to be fundamentally human.
  — Alexandra Horowitz, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2020
• Composite toolmaking is indicative of considerable technological know-how, and the bladelets at PP13B are among the oldest examples of it.
  — Curtis W. Marean, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2012
• Their visit to the site was evidently brief and purposeful, however; there are no traces of habitation, toolmaking or any other activities.
  — Jennifer Raff, Scientific American, 1 May 2021
• Such as toolmaking, said Parr, and having different personalities and emotions and being capable of affection.
  — Doug George, chicagotribune.com, 6 Apr. 2021
• The insatiable demand for bicycles spawned other industries—ball bearings, wire for spokes, steel tubing, precision toolmaking—that would shape the manufacturing world long after the bicycle was relegated to the toy department.
  — National Geographic, 17 June 2020
• Because this region is critical to complex speech, long thought necessary for advanced toolmaking, the findings suggest these early members of our genus didn’t possess particularly modern humanlike brains, the researchers report today in Science.
  — Michael Price, Science | AAAS, 8 Apr. 2021
• On the mainland, archaeologists researching Paleoindians often search for cave shelters and debris from stone toolmaking.
  — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2021
• Many mental abilities once regarded as uniquely human — toolmaking, problem-solving, sophisticated communication, self-awareness — turn out to be far more widespread among animals than previously thought.
  — Ferris Jabr, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2017

Last Updated: 24 Nov 2024