Ground stone tools are usually made of basalt, rhyolite, granite, or other cryptocrystalline and igneous stones whose coarse structure makes them ideal for grinding other materials, including plants and other stones.
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Jewelry, beads, ear spools and other decorative ground stones were a sign of high status due to the time and effort needed to make pieces of such small size and detail.
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In referring to ground stone used somewhat as mortar, Egyptian pyramid construction techniques says the following : The filling has almost no binding properties, but it was necessary to stabilize the construction.
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Previously, Acharya said, neither India's national government, nor the Bihar state government had encouraged the tradition of making clay masks out of different colored soils, then dying them with ground stone and seeds.
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Vajpayee's two-day program in Kashmir also included inaugurating an airport extension, laying the ground stone for a highway, visiting a school, and initiating projects aimed at running train services to Kashmir by 2007.
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From the 2nd century BCE onward, urn cremation cemeteries and weapon burials with various above-ground stone markers appear, beginning a monumental cemetery record that persists unbroken until the end of the Iron Age.
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Carbon dating on ash mounds associated with Neolithic cultures in South India date back to 8000 BCE . Artefacts such as ground stone axes, and minor copper objects have been found in the region.
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Another material used by the Nok are ground stone axes which seemed to be used for mostly food production which is typically made from fine-grained volcanic rock and a few made from siliceous rock.
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The occupants of this period of the site manufactured distinctive ground stone bowls, and many were found associated with female burials in the Neolithic cemetery at Hyrax Hill and other sites in the area.
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In response to a emerging community of Greek and Eastern Orthodox converts, enterprising artists are trading in their acrylic paints for ground stone and rabbit skin glue to meet the new demand for religious icons.
