| Small worked flint blades known as microliths were perhaps the barbs of spears and harpoons with wooden shafts. |
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| The stone tool assemblage includes convex end scrapers, bifacially-flaked small knives, and flattened discoids and microliths. |
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| The site is dated by large quantities of Mesolithic flints, such as crescent-shaped microliths, scrapers and points. |
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| Two wings, better Time's arrows ReprintsFrom about 40,000 years ago microliths are common. |
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| The way to find microliths, he said, was to search springtime molehills. |
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| Stone tools of the Azilian were mostly extremely small, called microliths, and were made to fit into a handle of bone or antler. |
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| The Palaeolithic industry of North Africa and southern Europe is noted for its microliths and called Capsian culture, taking its name from the town of Gafsa in Tunisia. |
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| Later tools included Aurignacian blades and smaller implements called microliths. |
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| The kidneys also had focal luminal collecting duct microliths and urate deposition. |
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| This week the subject is the beautifully crafted flint of the Mesolithic period, known as microliths. |
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| Small stone tools called microliths and retouched bladelets can be found for the first time. |
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| The progressive diminution in the size of stone artifacts that began in the Middle Paleolithic reached its climax in the small parallel-sided blades and microliths of what has been called the Indian Mesolithic. |
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| In the Late Stone Age, the climate became warmer and humans begun using more sophisticated technology to produce small stone tools from microliths and to hunt with bows and arrows. |
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| The sediment remaining in the screen was collected, wet-sieved and sorted for fauna and microartifacts such as microliths and beads. |
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| The microliths of this culture period differ greatly from the Aurignacian artifacts. |
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| Finds of bloodstone microliths on the foreshore at Orbost on the west coast of the island near Dunvegan also suggest Mesolithic occupation. |
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| Mode 5 stone tools involve the production of microliths, which were used in composite tools, mainly fastened to a haft. |
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| Microscopically, the background testicular tissue often shows dysgenetic features, including impaired spermatogenesis, tubular atrophy, and microliths. |
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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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| Tiny microliths were developed for hafting onto harpoons and spears. |
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