Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Neolithic climber was also armed with a tiny flint dagger with a wooden handle; a net of grass, which possibly served as a carrying bag; and a pencil- size stone-and-linden tool that was probably used to sharpen arrowheads and blades. Two birchbark canisters may have been used to carry the embers from a fire, Egg speculates. The Iceman apparently toted much of his gear in a primitive rucksack with a U-shaped wooden frame...
...spread from the fertile plains and river valleys of Central Europe toward northern Germany and Denmark, and south to the foothills of the Alps. Herdsmen like the Iceman, on the lookout for new pastures, began to move to higher ground. On the rims of lakes and marshes, settlers built wooden homes, some on stilts, and cultivated barley and peas. Communities of 50 to 200 people dotted the shores of Lake Constance and a number of Swiss lakes, with central buildings for social functions. These villagers evidently traveled across the Alps; parsley and peppermint from the Mediterranean region have been found...
...have used the 385-ton stone Grand Menhir, now toppled and broken, for astronomical observations. The neatly aligned rows of standing stones at nearby Carnac may have served a similar purpose. Civil engineering existed around this time as well: researchers have found remnants of 5,000-year-old wooden trackways, used as roads through the marshes of southwestern England...
...celebrities and silk-screened them on to canvases, often varying color combinations. This exhibit contains some classic Warhol subjects, including Chairman Mao, Jackie Kennedy, and Marilyn Monroe. One corner of the exhibition space is devoted to a pile of Kellogg's Cornflakes packing box replicas. Carpenters made these wooden boxes to the exact dimensions of the actual ones; Warhol's assistants silk-screened the letters onto the pieces...
Mather House residents were awakened early on Columbus Day as a wooden bench crashed through the superintendent's main office window...