It would therefore make sense that Neanderthals also hunted using weapons—even some chimpanzees do this today. Previous research shows that the earliest Neanderthal spears are plain wooden ...

Did the study address Neanderthal anatomy at all? Its my understanding the Neanderthal shoulders weren't built well for throwing, so using thrusting spears was just about the only choice they had ...

Neanderthals and early humans knew how to make spears but didn't know how to throw them. American anthropologists analysed the dimensions of a number of Neanderthal humerus bones.

NEW YORK (AP) — A set of ancient wooden spears may be younger than scientists thought and wielded by Neanderthals instead of their ancestors. The complete spears made of spruce and pine are ...

Some archaeologists think that Homo heidelbergensis, an ancestor of Neanderthals, may have used a similar method to shape spears in a 300,000-year-old site in Germany.

GAMBIER, Ohio - Fifteen years have passed since German scientists unearthed a small cache of wooden spears believed to be the hunting tools of long-lost Neanderthals. The nearly 400,000-year-old ...

Neanderthals Used Spears to Hunt Targets From Afar New analysis adds to growing body of literature suggesting these early human ancestors were more advanced than previously believed.