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 ...

Hundreds of stone artifacts and 54,000-year-old human teeth have been found in a rock shelter in the south of France, pushing back evidence for Homo sapiens wielding the bow and arrow in Europe by ...

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 ...

I drew my longbow, settled, let the string blow through my fingers, and watched as my stone-tipped ... and pounded arrow after arrow into my bear target every day and kept at it as the season opened.

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 ...

Years of training and persistence paid off for an Oklahoma hunter after he harvested a 300-pound black bear using a primitive bow, string, arrow and stone point earlier this month. Caleb Flies ...