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Example sentences for "human bones"

  • Human bones or artefacts were found throughout a wide series of strata, in which no variations of a cultural nature were detected.

  • And this is of interest, for mammalian remains have been found in the presence of implements where no human bones could be discovered.

  • This conclusion is confirmed by the evidence from many caves not described in detail here because of the lack of human bones therein or the imperfection of such as were found.

  • The "human bones" consisted of one skeleton, lying on a rock floor, fully a fourth of a mile from the mouth of the cave.

  • At their inner margin, among the ordinary refuse characteristic of such deposits, were many fragments of human bones, including ulnas of two individuals, one much larger than the other.

  • No description of them could be obtained, and they may not have been human bones at all.

  • This covered a confused heap of human bones, many of which were badly decayed.

  • In another of these mounds a large number of human bones, but no other relics worthy of note, were found.

  • Four or five feet south of the stone heap was a large quantity of human bones in complete confusion.

  • The deposit consisted of a thin layer of carbonaceous matter, intermingled with which were some burned human bones, but so much calcined as to render recognition extremely difficult.

  • The construction of a farm road down the bank disclosed a large quantity of human bones, accompanied by a variety of rude implements.

  • Broken pottery is found in abundance around these monuments; and fragments of human bones, much decomposed, are observed intermixed with the earth.

  • Absence of Human Bones in tool-bearing Alluvium, how explained.

  • These are small eminences, which are supposed to have been raised by the aborigines over their dead; human bones, and fragments of a coarse kind of earthen-ware, being frequently dug from them.

  • In this cavern, or at least on the same hacienda, if we may credit Fuentes, human bones of extraordinary size were found, including shin-bones about five feet in length.

  • In the other long cairn, which was opened in 1792, a similar chamber enclosed both urns and human bones.

  • It was found filled with ashes and fragments of human bones, mingled with which were the fragments of bronze rings, and the handle of a small vessel of the same metal.

  • Round about this Morie was several smaller ones all going to decay, and on the Beach between them and the Sea lay scatter'd up and down a great quantity of human bones.

  • They have Chiszels made of the same, but these are more commonly made of Human Bones.

  • Hamy, in a book published a few years ago, only mentions twelve finds of human bones, which could, without any doubt, be dated from Palaeolithic times.

  • American Association in 1886, at Ann Arbor (Michigan) were presented some ornaments made of human bones from a mound in Ohio.

  • Human bones, perforated by arrows and broken by stone hatchets, bear ineffaceable traces to this day of homicidal struggles.

  • This cave has become interesting from the fact that it has furnished a large quantity of human bones, belonging to individuals of both sexes and every age; also two entire skulls, which M.

  • Brun found a quantity of human bones, and particularly two skulls--one that of an old man, the other that of an adult.

  • Ere long they fell in with a great quantity of human bones, intermixed with a considerable number of the bones of reindeer and other animals, as well as implements of all kinds.

  • There was found, in an island at the west extremity of Lake Huron, an ancient repository of human bones, which appeared to have been gathered from their first or ordinary place of sepulture, and placed in this rude mausoleum.

  • It happened from the blowing down of a large tree, whose roots laid bare a quantity of human bones.

  • The sullen sea is discoloured as far as eye can reach with the dissolving clay, and, horrible to tell, out of many fissures grin bleached skulls, while strewn here and there are human bones.

  • Imbedded in this floor of unburned clay were a few very much decomposed, but unburned, human bones.

  • At the sides of the altar were fragments of human bones, some of which had been charred.

  • The volatile Salt of Human Bones is also very efficacious; but it is necessary to begin first with the taking of Laxative and Sudorifick Medicines, appropriated according to the respective Circumstances.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    dead faint; human activity; human beauty; human body; human character; human conduct; human creatures; human events; human face; human faculty; human feeling; human hand; human heart; human intercourse; human kind; human labour; human lives; human passion; human relations; human slavery; human spirit; human voice; human will; long life; make great; strengthen their