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Learn about the 430,000-year-old stone tools and techniques that allowed ancient humans to butcher elephant meat for a hefty ...
Legendary musician Sly Stone, who redefined pop, funk and rock music as leader of Sly and the Family Stone, has died at 82, leaving behind a screenplay of his life story.
Sculptor Robert Pulley has spent decades creating metal-like clay sculptures. Sculptor Robert Pulley has spent decades balancing a teaching career while creating a dizzying number of sculptures in ...
ABSTRACT: Stone coal is a special resource, because it is associated with a variety of rare metal elements. The elemental geochemical characteristics of stone coal can provide useful information for ...
For example, marble is created when limestone is pressure-cooked within the earth, causing the minerals that compose the stone to re-form into new crystals. Sedimentary rock is formed by the ...
There are various stone types. Sandstone is a sedimentary stone with smooth, understated tone that gives a timeless look. At home in both urban and rural settings, quarried stone can have numerous ...
Built on the same colorful sedimentary stone as nearby Zion National Park, Sand Hollow is as close as you’ll get to playing golf on Mars. The more traditional desert front nine winds through red ...
The centre of solstice activities at Stonehenge is the Altar Stone – a large sandstone slab of uncertain origins. Our new work has found a match for it all the way in Scotland.
Stonehenge’s central stone came from northern Scotland, more than 600 miles away from the monument, according to a new analysis of its geochemistry. It is commonly accepted that many of the ...
For Stonehenge’s Altar Stone, an Improbably Long Ancient Journey A six-ton megalith at the heart of the archaeological site traveled more than 450 miles to get there, a new study concludes.