The obvious question—asked by numerous Redditors— is how one could possibly install all that kitchen tile without noticing a fossilized human jawbone in the travertine. Hawks offered a ...

Choosing the right tile for that big kitchen renovation project can be ... Some choices in natural stone are: marble, limestone, travertine, slate, granite (and) quartz.” For a lower maintenance ...

If you find that the advantages outweigh the disadvantages, you could use tiles around kitchen and bathroom floors and walls, ...

Travertine, the type of rock from which this tile was cut, is a popular building ... to find a slice of Homo erectus entombed in her kitchen countertop.” To this day, Kappelman told me, he ...

Q: When we remodeled our kitchen and adjoining pantry, the contractor installed 12-by-12-inch travertine tiles. The tiles are not flush throughout. The blue tape in the picture shows the problem ...

The tiles in question are made of travertine, a calcium-rich limestone that is often mined and cut for tile. 'While fossils are often found in travertine, hominin fossils are much less common ...

My folks have a floor made of a similar stone, but all I've found in it are some snails, and what I'm pretty sure are coprolites. No human remains in the floor, but when the house was being built ...