Stone Age people in Belgium were hunting with spear-throwers more than 30,000 years ago — the earliest known evidence of such a weapon in Europe, a new study suggests. After investigating more ...

Stone Age islanders threw spears from boats at large fish and other sea prey, O’Connor proposes. ... They are thought to be parts of spear points, not harpoon points.

Stone Age spears were as lethal as BULLETS: Stone-tipped weapons made large wounds to bring down big game. ... But scientists say that stone spear points used by our ancestors 500,000 years ago, ...

Attaching stone points to spears (known as "hafting") ... Hafted spear tips are common in Stone Age archaeological sites after 300,000 years ago.

While stone tools continued to be manufactured in the Later Stone Age at Border Cave, stone spear points from the Middle Stone Age gave way to tiny, thin flakes known as microliths that were ...

Thomsen could well have substituted Wood Age for Stone Age, ... Perhaps the most surprising revelation is that some of the spear points were resharpened after earlier breakage or dulling, ...

The discovery of stone spear points at a site in Central Texas that may be the oldest weapons ever found in North America could challenge accepted theories about when the first humans arrived.

When he investigated, he noticed that the bird had unearthed a large spear point. Assisted by his son-in-law Scott Centea and grandson Chase Centea, Nelson eventually found 165 stone tools buried ...

Europe’s Stone Age fishers used beeswax to make a point. This 13,000-year-old fishing spear is the first evidence that northern populations used bee product as glue ...

Program Overview for the NOVA program America's Stone Age Explorers: Learn about the evidence and controversies surrounding who the first Americans were, where they came from, and how they arrived ...

Clovis points are a particular style of spear point found throughout much of North America during the relatively brief period between about 13,000 and 12,800 years ago.

High in the Caucasus Mountains, buried beneath the cold floor of a limestone cave, archaeologists have found something small, sharp, and quietly revolutionary. It is just about 9 centimeters long (3.5 ...