The Maori walked it to gather the greenstone (jade) from which they crafted tools and weapons.
The tools and weapons that men use in combat can be used just as easily by women.
Like the Neanderthals, the newcomers had been busy, too, developing advanced tools and weapons, better navigational skills, trade, complex language, art and other forms of symbolic thinking.
Instead, they argued, a fortuitous mutation in the human brain may have triggered an explosion in human creativity 50, 000 years ago, leading to a sudden appearance of personal ornaments, skilfully-crafted art, novel tools and weapons.
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The objects, including weapons and tools, were found in October in a field near Tisbury by a metal detectorist.
Archaeologists have unearthed Neanderthal graves containing weapons, tools and the bones of a sacrificed animal, all of which suggest some kind of belief in a future world that was similar to their own.
Like cannons and other weapons of war, they were tools of the state and inaccessible to regular folks.
When current officers do break the law, they have more access to weapons and other tools than those in other professions.
In the mine, dug through ancient salt deposits, WIPP will ultimately hold a total of 850, 000 barrels of lightly contaminated items like tools and clothing -- trucked in from ten nuclear weapons facilities around the country.
And those who expect significant budget savings from a smaller arsenal will be disappointed, for the tools and processes cost roughly the same for 1, 000 weapons as for 5, 000.
To organize the discussion a bit, we broke up the analysis into five categories with overlap between the worlds: weapons, ships, biotech, robotics and everyday tools.
Five years ago social media tools were weapons of a revolution, of intruders to the enterprise and now they are another feature set, well on their way to being as controversial as a fax machine.
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Other important hand to hand weapons tools include the spear, the battleaxe, the pike and the polearm.
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