Archaeologists in Germany have identified a set of wooden spears that might be younger than previous estimates. This shift in ...

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Further study of the spear tip showed that it had been shaped using stone tools, and that it had been used either in battle or for hunting—there were cracks showing it had struck something very ...

A set of ancient wooden spears may be younger than scientists thought and wielded by Neanderthals instead of their ancestors.

Blade flakes were "pre-forms" that could be fashioned into knives, hide scrapers, spear tips, drills, and other tools. This artifact was used for scraping fur from animal hides. For European and ...

An 80,000-year-old bone point found in Eastern Europe challenges the idea that migrating Homo sapiens gave the technology to Neandertals.

The famous Schöningen spears, discovered in Germany in 1994, are considered the oldest weapons made by hominins that have ...

et al (2025) Journal of Archaeological Science The spear tip was between 70,000 and ... Human-made pointed bone tools have been found in other regions of the world, including Africa and Asia ...

Even when dates are established, they are not easy to interpret. Because artifact styles—forms of pottery, tools, spear points—can change arbitrarily, one can’t say that a particular style ...