Meaning of stoneknapper | Babel Free

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Noun. [C1]

Examples

“Dick thought he was a "surveyor" or "stoneknapper," as the members of the geological survey were called.”

“Celibacy is a stage⟳ in human evolution, the last⟳[…] the last⟳ light⟳ step in a progress⟳ that began with the small Javan stoneknapper, Australopithecus, and the mute little African, Pithecanthropus.”

“This greater focus⟳ and increased control⟳ enabled the stoneknapper to produce⟳ sharper, straighter edges, resulting in a more efficient implement. This Acheulian stone tool became standardized as the basic H. erectus all-purpose tool ...”

“The size and nature of available raw material, the limited technological means available to shape⟳ it, the size of the human body itself, the strength of the average stoneknapper and tool users and the kinds of tasks in which tools were to be […]”

“Deshati was in training to become⟳ a stoneknapper before the Guardians found her, and she asks Nassun all sorts of questions about her father.”

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