Aboriginal peoples used a greater variety of local material, developed new techniques, such as polishing stone, and devised increasingly specialized tools, such as knives, awls, fish hooks, and nets.
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The uncovering of lissoirs ( " polishing stones " ) at these sites is significant as they are about 51, 000 years old, predating the known arrival of modern humans to Europe.
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As a member of the Clifton Antiquarian Club, Tuckett published antiquarian papers in its Proceedings, including " Notes of ancient Norwegian wooden churches " ( 1888 ) and " Notes on ancient Egyptian methods of hewing, dressing, sculpturing and polishing stone " ( 1889 ).
