His hair was an umber mass of spikes, and his eyes were like two chips of obsidian, giving him a somewhat sinister look. |
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They grew tall and anonymous, faceless obsidian columns studding the curved horizon. |
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Hard stones such as obsidian and rock crystal were added to the repertoire of the stone-vase maker. |
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The other half quaked, disturbed by the glowering lines of his face, the reproachful glare of his obsidian eyes. |
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After rain, for example, it was relatively easy to find obsidian as the sand that covered it was washed away by the water. |
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One corner of the obsidian has been cut and polished, and when held in the light it shimmers from indigo to violet. |
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The conchoidal fracture exhibited by chert and obsidian allows them to be shaped into sharp points and edges. |
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His breastplate was inlaid with black obsidian, the preserved iron exquisitely forged. |
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The presence of basalt and obsidian is a sign of volcanic activity and the instability of the earth's crust in this area. |
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The earliest mirrors were of obsidian, a black volcanic rock that could be carved and polished. |
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The knife sported an obsidian blade mounted to a bone haft, the edge still viciously sharp even after years of storage. |
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Watch for the glint of an obsidian arrowhead, a reminder that Pomo Indians once lived and hunted here. |
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Opening it, he saw that nestled amongst the soft padding of the box was a sword three inches long carved out of obsidian. |
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The Paleolithic, with the world's oldest ground axes and obsidian tools, evidence of intense volcanic activity. |
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Volcanoes form glassy rocks such as obsidian, and in recently formed volcanic rocks scientists have found tunnels that seem to have been created by hungry microbes. |
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Hoodoo Mountain has one of the few undisturbed ancient obsidian quarry sites in Canada. |
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The focus of their attention is ancient obsidian, a volcanic glass formed as an igneous rock. |
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Instead, his work has become a valuable raw material, a kind of musical obsidian for other artists, several of whom have remixed his songs. |
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Rhyolite, basalt and obsidian are examples of igneous rocks that have formed at the surface of the Earth. |
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Silent as stones like two black pillars carved from obsidian rock. |
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The peoples of the Cyclades and Crete were seagoing folk, and their first trading voyages to the islands of the Aegean seem to have been for obsidian. |
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And also, within the stone artefacts we found pieces of obsidian and there's no volcanic glass on Norfolk, and this was sourced as coming from the Kermadec Islands. |
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Obsidian looks like coal and while both are black, obsidian is shinier. |
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Her correspondences include the planet Venus, the Strength tarot card, the symbols of a box or a basket, the gems obsidian, citrine, cat's eye and tiger's eye. |
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His skin was so pale Sara fancied she could see through it, and his single normal eye had become stained as dark as the obsidian one which sat in his other eye socket. |
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Surgical knives made from obsidian are still used in some delicate surgeries. |
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Of this culture, one of the few that the Aztec Empire was never able to conquer, is notable for its works in metal and obsidian, excellent in quality and of a great delicacy. |
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He continued his self-experiments with both of them noting that on his mushroom trip his very German doctor became an Aztec priest who seemed about to slice his chest open with an obsidian knife. |
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Finds of obsidian tools from Anatolia are evidences of early trade relations. |
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Sands rich in magnetite are dark to black in color, as are sands derived from volcanic basalts and obsidian. |
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Most indigenous cultures were limited to weapons of wood, flint and obsidian. |
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They also imported obsidian from Ethiopia to shape blades and other objects. |
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Trade goods carried included cacao, obsidian, ceramics, textiles, food and drink for the crew, and copper bells and axes. |
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The famous astrologer John Dee used an Aztec obsidian mirror to see into the future. |
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There is evidence of the exchange of obsidian and flint during the stone age. |
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The earliest use of obsidian in the Near East dates to the Lower and Middle paleolithic. |
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Given that age, they could deduce the environmental conditions from the thickness of the hydrated layer on the obsidian, Anovitz notes. |
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Both obsidian projectile points and coprolites were excavated from sediments in the Paisley Caves. |
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For example, peridot or obsidian invoke fire because both are formed as a by product of volcanic action, or in the case of peridot, even from a fiery meteor. |
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Includes obsidian knife making, slacklining, circus arts, longboarding, team challenges and more. |
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Palladium silver matt designo magno platinum paint finish, with the alternative of obsidian black, iridium silver, carneol red or flint grey metallic paintwork. |
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The Paiutes wove tall wild grasses into baskets and collected obsidian rocks from the nearby mountains to shape into arrowheads. |
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It also contains the first evidence of the cuscus, Phalanger orientalis at the site and the introduction of obsidian from West New Britain. |
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Your eyes are eloquent, luculent obsidian, But I have been insidious, seditious, simian. |
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Visitors will also be able to see tools fashioned from glass-sharp flakes of obsidian, a volcanic rock, and intriguing dogu figurines that were probably used as ritual objects. |
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Start by purchasing a Jade Egg, a smooth, egg-shaped stone typically made of jade but sometimes made of rose quartz or obsidian. |
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The analysis of obsidian debitage can reveal whether or not prismatic blade production occurred at a site and, if it had, what stages of production the process included. |
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Flint, chert, and obsidian all served utilitarian purposes in Maya culture, but many pieces were finely crafted into forms that were never intended to be used as tools. |
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Handoga, dated to the fourth millennium BP, has in turn yielded obsidian microliths and plain ceramics used by early nomadic pastoralists with domesticated cattle. |
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Thus when archaeologists come upon objects of obsidian or chert, copper or gold, they have almost unparalleled opportunities to interpret ancient pathways of trade. |
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