| 单词 | knap |
| 例句 | But the Neanderthals refined the art of knapping to create the Levallois spear head, an intricately faceted point that could effectively maim or kill an animal as large as a mammoth. Books of The Times: ?How to Think Like a Neandertal? ? By Thomas Wynn and Frederick L. Coolidge ? Review 2011-12-27T23:05:30Z This chipping technique, known as knapping, is simple. Books of The Times: ?How to Think Like a Neandertal? ? By Thomas Wynn and Frederick L. Coolidge ? Review 2011-12-27T23:05:30Z Over the next fortnight, hundreds of historic sites, excavations, archaeology stores and museums will welcomethe public, with events including re-enactments, lectures and a chance to try skills, from flint knapping to dowsing. Relic of Harpocrates, the god of secrecy and silence, found at Silchester 2010-07-16T13:06:00Z Stone Age humans, principally the species Homo erectus, would use rocks, bones or antlers to fracture larger boulders, hewing sharp tools in a laborious process known as knapping. Was Australopithecus an Artist? 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z It was easy to knap, or to flake off, pieces into utilitarian shapes and didn’t need to be tempered or treated with heat as some tool stones do. Obsidian Cliff: Humanity’s Tool Shed for the Last 11,500 Years 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z By that time, toolmakers were already skilled at knapping. Did more than one ancient human relative use early stone tools? 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z Our Paleolithic ancestors learned to knap delicate blades from round stone cobbles, hunt large game and cook their food. New Human Metabolism Research Upends Conventional Wisdom about How We Burn Calories 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z The course was jointly led by Ojibwe elders, who taught him how to knap flint, tan hides and build wigwams. Unearthing a Maya Civilization That ‘Punched Above its Weight’ 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z It was there that he learned flint knapping, the shaping of stone to make tools. Will Lord: Suffolk man teaches prehistoric survival skills from cave 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z At the inter-tidal marshland, which was on what would have been Britain's southern coastline, there was a nearby cliff that was starting to degrade, producing good rocks for knapping - the process of creating stone tools. Europe's earliest bone tools found in Britain 2020-08-12T04:00:00Z You see a guy reading a newspaper while driving, and he might as well be flint knapping. Perspective | Distracted driving has been around nearly as long as cars. But now there’s a twist. 2018-02-04T05:00:00Z The tools were fashioned with a relatively sophisticated method of stone knapping called the Levallois technique, which requires skill and forethought and allows greater control over the resulting scrapers or blades. Oldest Human Fossil Outside Africa Discovered 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z Here, in a huge cave by the Mediterranean Sea, ancient people roasted hare, turtle, and ostrich eggs and knapped stone tools from flint. This ancient jawbone suggests our species left Africa 40,000 years earlier than expected 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, in the backyard, Clark leads an impromptu flint knapping lesson, using obsidian nodules strewn about the lawn. How a Mormon lawyer transformed archaeology in Mexico—and ended up losing his faith 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Ariane Burke, an archeozoologist at the University of Montreal, said she was also struck by the absence of knapped stone tools. Did Humans Arrive in America a Hundred Thousand Years Earlier Than We Thought? 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z The events include Open Archaeology Day at the University of New Hampshire, which will feature food sampling, flint knapping and mock excavations. Dig into New Hampshire history with Archeology Month events 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z One of the best finds last year was more ancient: a flint knapping kit thought to date back to neolithic times. Archaeologist defies sceptics in pursuit of lost city of Trellech 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z “This is putting us on notice that if we find knapped or struck stone tools in the archeological record, they’re not necessarily cutting tools,” he said. Monkeys smash theory that only humans can make sharp stone tools 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z Others worked on their notching skills or tried to master knapping. Iowa gathering teaches ancient art of tool, weapon making 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z Take stone knapping, or using one stone to strike another in order to shape it into an arrowhead or other useful object—a strategy used by many early humans. Nut-Bashing Monkeys Offer Window Into Human Evolution 2015-07-18T04:00:00Z "There is no doubt these were intentionally knapped," Harmand told The Post. Stone tools may have been used before our genus came on the scene 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z They were made in a process called knapping, breaking off pieces with hard strikes from another stone; 149 stone artifacts were detailed in the research published in the journal Nature, with more still being recovered. Human ancestors made stone tools earlier than previously known 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z Men without guns, without knapsacks; some men covered with blankets. Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z About 6,000 people in the U.S. currently practice knapping, according to Harvey, but that number doesn’t include Native Americans who still use the techniques. Iowa gathering teaches ancient art of tool, weapon making 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z For packing the cards or knapping the dice I never came across his equal. The Watchers A Novel 2012-01-29T03:00:08.560Z They found stone artifacts--mostly flakes that were dropped as hominins knapped rocks to create tools for butchering animals--lying in sediments almost 1.85 million years old. Human Ancestors in Eurasia Earlier than Thought 2011-06-06T23:45:10.963Z As the dawn broke, the soldiers were seen assembling from all parts of the town, in marching order, with their knap-107-sacks on their backs, loaded with three days' provisions. A Week at Waterloo in 1815 Lady De Lancey's Narrative: Being an Account of How She Nursed Her Husband, Colonel Sir William Howe De Lancey, Quartermaster-General of the Army, Mortally Wounded in the Great Battle I would she were as lying a gossip in that as ever knapped Ginger. The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare "What the devil's the meaning of this?" demanded Colonel Taubmann as his post-boy reined up on the knap of the hill above the town. Merry-Garden and Other Stories Also, a blow or correction, as "you'll knap it," for some misdeed. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Hanúmán caught it as it flew, And knapped it on his knee in two. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse Turpin treated him as he had done the dub at the knapping jigger, and cleared the driver and his little wain with ease. Rookwood "Take the knap?" said Maitland, who imagined that "the knap" must be some malady incident to childhood. The Mark Of Cain I’m going to knap one when I get back.” Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp On the knap of the hill the Major turned for a last look. The Mayor of Troy Billy had showed David how to knap flint and chert the week before, after seeing a filmstrip about it in class. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town He laughed, and went on knapping away with his little hammer, and said he was a jolly-jist. The Squire of Sandal-Side A Pastoral Romance Let you go!" she replied; "what, after all the plague I've had to knap you? Young Folks Treasury, Volume 3 (of 12) Classic Tales and Old-Fashioned Stories The walls are well built, three feet in thickness, and constructed of uncut flints; the east end is enriched with diaper-work in chequers of stone and knapped flint. Vanishing England Yonder, on the turf under the knap of Little Parc, what do I see but a troop of horsemen drawn up, all ghostly to behold! The Mayor of Troy "Hush!" she interrupted, lifting a quick eye towards the knap of the hill they had descended. Hocken and Hunken The sun lay warm on its long roof, and the slates flashed gaily there, as Farmer Lear came over the knap of the hill and looked down on it. The Delectable Duchy "He will knap the spears a pieces with his teeth." The Grammar of English Grammars None knap a reader like me in the lay. Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] The ash staves knapped with a shriek, and flew in splinters about the field. Arthurian Chronicles: Roman de Brut After knaps you are more rested and maybe things don't look just as they do before knaps. Rebecca Mary Ye can knap the French with him better than I. Now I can go with him as becomes a yerl's son, for the freedom of the lady!' Two Penniless Princesses You can be very shy and bashful, you know, and leave all the knapping of Latin and logic to me.’ The Caged Lion Cry to it, nuncle, as the cockney did to the eels when she put 'em i' the paste alive; she knapped 'em o' the coxcombs with a stick and cried 'Down, wantons, down!' King Lear I would she were as lying a gossip in that as ever knapped ginger or made her neighbours believe she wept for the death of a third husband. The Merchant of Venice |
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