Preserved wooden spears from hundreds of thousands of years ago seem to have been suitable for throwing, not just close-range attacks ...

According to this research, points that were suitable for throwing spears did not appear until around 190,000 years ago, with the implication being that humans living prior to this date hadn’t ...

Neanderthals were consummate hunters of medium and large-sized mammals. There is evidence that they used stone-tipped spears to hunt ... Churchill, S. E. Throwing in the Middle and Upper ...

This technique, known as pike hunting, probably would have generated more force—enough to pierce the thick hides of megafauna ...

Archaeologists in the Iberian Peninsula have discovered a 65,000-year-old tar-making "factory" engineered by Neanderthals ... enough resin to haft two spear points. It took them about four ...