What is "flints"

Usage examples of "flints".

Lower Pleistocene Crags were described as being artifacts, such as the flints, some flaked bifacially, in the Red Crag near Ipswich, and the so-called rostro-carinates from the base of the Norwich Crag near Norwich.

So Bear threw his bones across to the Flints, and the Flints paid one counter for the guess they had missed.

This time the Flints guessed him right, and he threw his bones across, and it was now the turn of Bear and Fox to do the guessing.

Fox Boy also carried his bow-and-arrows and hanging from his belt the little buckskin sack with the flints in it.

I guess they gave you those flints the little boy is carrying in the bag hanging from his belt.

The Bear party were mixing with the Flints, trying on costumes and feather headdresses.

He slipped in among the Flints and there he was, singing and swaying with the rhythm.

By his patient research he eventually found a number of flints that he believed were genuine tools and made them the subject of a report to the Academy of Sciences in January, 1867.

It appears that in our attempt to answer one question, the nature of cut marks on bones, we have stumbled upon another, the question of how to recognize human workmanship on flints and other stone objects.

Britain, man of sufficient intelligence to fashion flints and to build a fire, before the close of the Pliocene time and before the advent of the First Glaciation.

They concluded that the flints from the base of the Red Crag near Ipswich were in undisturbed strata, at least Pliocene in age.

Furthermore, the flaking on the flints was undoubtedly of human origin.

Warren said that the flints may have been crushed by icebergs against the ocean bottom along the coast.

In his often-cited report, he said he found flints resembling stone tools in the Thanetian formation at Belle-Assise, near Clermont, France.

This formation is Early Eocene, making the flints about 50-55 million years old.