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Turn plain wood posts into eye-catching columns with this easy GenStone pillar and column wrap installation guide. With a simple DIY process, you’ll add instant curb appeal and a polished look ...
Parting Stone takes the ashes created by cremation and turns them into 60 to 80 polished stones. Founder Justin Crowe said the stones, which look a lot like smooth, white rocks you’d skip across ...
Polished stones discovered near Stonehenge may have been part of a 4,000-year-old goldsmith's toolkit, experts have claimed. Archaeologists from the University of Leicester detected traces of gold ...
5 Black-and-White Furnishings That’ll Bring Polished Contrast to Your Home Combining the two contrasting shades is all about scale and balance. Names like Jimmy Delatour get it just right.
Two polished stone balls shaped about 5,500 years ago — linked to a mysterious practice almost unique to Neolithic Britain — have been discovered in an ancient Scottish tomb.
Archaeologists excavating a tomb at one of Scotland’s oldest known monuments have discovered two polished, 5,500-year-old stone balls, reports Alison Campsie for the Scotsman. The team made the ...
These scientists built their own Stone Age tools to figure out how they were used Telltale fractures and microscopic wear marks should be applicable to real artifacts.
Dubbed the black marble knight’s tombstone—people of the day considered any polished stone to be marble, even though this was a fine-grained black limestone —the grave marker was decorated ...
Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University crafted replica Stone Age tools and used them for a range of tasks to see how different activities create traces on the edge. They found that a ...
A polished stone tool discovered in Ireland’s earliest known gravesite helps scientists revive an ancient burial ceremony.
It could very well be a Charlevoix stone -- a type of fossilized coral that’s similar to, yet distinct from, Michigan’s official state stone, the Petoskey.