Thomsen could well have substituted Wood Age for Stone Age, according to Thomas Terberger, an archaeologist and head of research at the Department of Cultural Heritage of Lower Saxony, in Germany.

Was the Stone Age Actually the Wood Age? Neanderthals were even better craftsmen than thought, a new analysis of 300,000-year-old wooden tools has revealed.

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.

The Indigenous American Indians who lived in Ohio and neighboring Ontario during the Ice Age made flint spear points that are similar, if not identical, to Clovis points. Clovis points are a ...

What's more, a prehistoric grayish-white stone spear point discovered at the Penny Site was used 2,000 to 6,000 years ago, he said.

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 ...

Stone Age fishing spear found on Southeast Asian island Carved bone points to ancient, complex hunting weapons near Indonesia ...

Early humans were already using stone tips to enhance the killing power of spears at least 500,000 years ago, some 200,000 years earlier than previously thought, anthropologists said Thursday.

Hafted spear tips are common in Stone Age archaeological sites after 300,000 years ago.

Hafted tools require more effort and foreplanning to manufacture, but a sharp stone point on the end of a spear can increase its killing power. Hafted spear tips are common in Stone Age ...