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Evidence of Tool Use by Early Hominins Tool use has been around for ages we all know this because we are surrounded by it every day, but how long has tool use in human history been at play? There is evidence of early hominids making and using stone tools that date back millions of years ago. These tools are the earliest known signs of modifying natural materials for use as a tool. In this article we will travel back to the early stages of human evolution to date when we began to use objects to…

Pink Floyd Pink Floyd was formed in London, England in 1965. According to Rolling Stones, the original band members (except Barrett) was studying at the same school in 1964. However, Barrett was an art student. Barrett actually came up with the name for them from a blues album by Pink Anderson and Floyd Anderson. Pink Floyd began in the underground London scene, where they developed their psychedelic sound. Their music was a mix between hard rock, country, folk, blues and electronic, which…

Different materials from the past can give historians and archaeologists a look into what the past was like in the places they were found. Although any pieces of evidence are valuable, some are more helpful than others to develop a better idea of the past than others. Physical evidence has been found in the Neolithic Era through Globeke Tepe, in Phoenicia through the shipwreck of Uluburun, and in Egypt through temples and mummies. Globeke Tepe is a structure that was built in the Neolithic Era…

Period 3 October 11, 2016 Roll Number: #43 Osborne Killer Stones in the Kidney What is a kidney stone you might ask? Well, a kidney stone is a hard object made up of many crystals that forms in the kidneys. Kidney stones may block the urinary tract and cause severe pain. My dad has had kidney stones twice in his life before and suffered a lot through it. One in ten people will most likely have kidney stones in their lifetime. Clearly, kidney stones are very painful for the people that have it…

Tropicalia and Heavy Metal The Tropicalia movement ignited Brazil leading to the fusion of traditional Brazilian culture with outside influences and to new and exciting ideas in poetry, music and art. Tropicalia came as an anti-establishment movement in Brazil that began the era of cultural opposition through the influence these artistic and musical influences. Heavy metal music was a primary influence of this cultural change that came from the influence of Western culture. The movement has made…

Some of their best released albums were Black Sabbath(1920), Paranoid(1870) and Master of Reality(1971). They were also labeled the “Greatest Metal Band” by MTV and were also placed second in VH1's “100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock”. Rolling Stone magazine even ranked them 85 in their “100 Greatest Artist of All Time” By the end of their career they had sold over 70 million records worldwide. They were also inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in…

Gout has been identified as early as 2640 BC by the ancient Egyptians, with famous suffers such as composer Ludwig van Beethoven, diplomate Benjamin Franklin, astronomer Galileo Galilei, and physicist Isaac Newton and known as the disease of kings due to prevalence of an indulgent lifestyle, such as consumption of alcohol, fructose-sweetened drinks, meat and other rich foods lead to risk factors of gout. Gout is caused by an excesses amount of uric acid being deposited in needle-like structures…

also talked about how bonobos can form simple sentences using pictograms and researchers trained capuchin monkeys to purchase food using aluminum discs. Hominins created symbols and recognized them in nature, as displayed by the hominin who carried a stone resembling a face back to their cave. Most importantly, hominins were able to create an ax from rock dating back to 1.76 million years ago. Chimps also use the same mental process when they create fishing rods from twigs. There was once a…

Brandon Breaux Holley Johnson English IV 24 September 2014 Carpentry in a Nutshell In carpentry there are many different tools and skills that are used which affects the world in many different ways. People have been doing carpentry for a long time. Carpenters are an important factor in order to live a safe and healthy life. There are many pieces of carpentry and many processes that are involved in carpentry. Also there are many different types of woods and shows there multiple different…

originated back in the Paleolithic era. Weapons and tools such as harpoons, cleavers, chisels, spears, and hand axes are used even today for fishing and the cutting of trees or animals. Over the years these tools have advanced from being made of stones and sticks to being made of strong metals smelted together. On page 3 it states "following the end of the Ice Age, however, communities in some parts of the world began to domesticate plants and animals; hunters and gathers gradually…