This stone spear tip may have belonged to the first Americans
网页2018年10月24日 · For 10 years, a team of archaeologists painstakingly excavated layer after layer of ancient stone tools near a Texas creek, looking for a sign of the first people to arrive in the Americas. Now, they have finally hit the jackpot: 11 spear points ranging from 13,500 to 15,500 years old.
The Stone Age: What Tools and Weapons Did They Use?
网页2021年11月29日 · Though people from the Stone Age had different scrapers, hand axes and other stone tools, the most common and important were spears and arrows. These composite tools – named because they were made of more than one material – normally comprised of a wooden shaft tied to a stone at the top using plant fibres or animal sinews.
People Have Been Using Stone-Tipped Spears For Way Longer ...
网页2012年11月20日 · By using a spear with a piercing stone tip, early humans could cause their prey to bleed and die faster. It is a technique that was later used by both Neanderthals and early modern humans.
Schöningen spears - Wikipedia
网页The Schöningen spears are a set of ten wooden weapons from the Palaeolithic Age that were excavated between 1994 and 1999 from the 'Spear Horizon' in the open-cast lignite mine in Schöningen, Helmstedt district, Germany. The spears are among the oldest hunting weapons discovered and were found together with animal bones and stone and bone ...
Stone Spear Tips Surprisingly Ancient—"Like Finding an iPod ...
网页2012年11月15日 · Seen from four angles, a South African stone was likely shaped for a spear. Half-million-year-old weapons suggest human mind grew sharper earlier. Some of …
Archaeologists identify oldest spear points: Used in hunting ...
网页2012年11月15日 · Hafted spear tips are common in Stone Age archaeological sites after 300,000 years ago. This study shows that hafted spear tips were also used in the early Middle Pleistocene, a period associated...
Human ancestors threw spears - Science News Explores
网页2013年12月12日 · Scientists had long believed that ancient people who lived 80,000 years ago were the first to throw spears with stone tips. But the discovery of 279,000-year-old stone spear tips in Ethiopia pushes that date back, and suggests prehuman species hunted with spears too.