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NL888 Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
Does "stone points" mean "the sharp edges of stone"?
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Humans from the Clovis culture used characteristic stone points (brown) and rod-shaped bone tools.
The remains of a young boy, ceremonially buried some 12,600 years ago in Montana, have revealed the ancestry of one of the earliest populations in the Americas, known as the Clovis culture.
Published in this issue of Nature, the boy’s genome sequence shows that today’s indigenous groups spanning North and South America are all descended from a single population that trekked across the Bering land bridge from Asia (M. Rasmussen et al. Nature 506, 225–229; 2014). The analysis also points to an early split between the ancestors of the Clovis people and a second group, whose DNA lives on in populations in Canada and Greenland (see http://www.nature.com/uidfinder/10.1038/506162a).
MOre:
http://www.nature.com/news/ancient-genome-stirs-ethics-debate-1.14698
Humans from the Clovis culture used characteristic stone points (brown) and rod-shaped bone tools.
The remains of a young boy, ceremonially buried some 12,600 years ago in Montana, have revealed the ancestry of one of the earliest populations in the Americas, known as the Clovis culture.
Published in this issue of Nature, the boy’s genome sequence shows that today’s indigenous groups spanning North and South America are all descended from a single population that trekked across the Bering land bridge from Asia (M. Rasmussen et al. Nature 506, 225–229; 2014). The analysis also points to an early split between the ancestors of the Clovis people and a second group, whose DNA lives on in populations in Canada and Greenland (see http://www.nature.com/uidfinder/10.1038/506162a).
MOre:
http://www.nature.com/news/ancient-genome-stirs-ethics-debate-1.14698
Top answer
Consider. A pencil or a spear has a point. An axe does not have a point.
- Consider.
- A pencil or a spear has a point.
- An axe does not have a point.
- It has an edge.
- Stone points sounds like archaeological jargon that means 'tools with points'.
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Consider.
A pencil or a spear has a point.
An axe does not have a point. It has an edge.
Stone points sounds like archaeological jargon that means 'tools with points'.
Clive
A pencil or a spear has a point.
An axe does not have a point. It has an edge.
Stone points sounds like archaeological jargon that means 'tools with points'.
Clive
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