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Until now, 12,000-year-old wooden artifacts in Northern Europe were the earliest concrete evidence of bow-and-arrow technology on the continent. The stone points are the earliest evidence in ...
Small stone blades from South Africa dating to 71,000 years ago may be the earliest evidence of bow and arrows. Image: Simen Oestmo The bow and arrow is an ancient weapon—going back at least ...
The author with a massive boar grizzly, taken with a stone-point head ... this into account and pounded arrow after arrow into my bear target every day and kept at it as the season opened. In mid-May ...
The stone tools and points associated with Neanderthals, known as Mousterian tools, are much larger and chunkier. “When you have a bow and arrow it’s more precise and less effort to use and ...
Stone Age Europeans used human bones to make arrowheads Before now, the earliest unambiguous evidence for bows and arrows in Europe came from finds in Stellmoor, Germany, dating to around 10,000 ...
A 54,000-year-old cave site in southern France holds hundreds of tiny stone points ... and fashioned them into bows and arrows using wood and other materials. They also made thrusting spears ...
Philippe Psaila Though Neanderthals may have witnessed early humans using bows and arrows, it appears the early human relatives never adopted them and, instead, kept using stone-tipped spears that ...