An 80,000-year-old bone spear tip, unearthed in Russia, challenges previous assumptions about Neanderthal capabilities. This ...

Archaeologists recently unearthed a bone projectile point someone dropped on a cave floor between 70,000 and 80,000 years ago ...

Archaeologists in Germany have identified a set of wooden spears that might be younger than previous estimates. This shift in ...

The world’s oldest wooden spears were probably made by Neanderthals around 200,000 years ago and used to annihilate entire ...

The find itself dates to between 70,000 and 80,000 years ago. It was a time when Neanderthals roamed a still-cooling Europe.

When you think about Neanderthals ... If you created that particular shape properly – it should look a little like a tortoise shell – then everything you knap off will be a nice, usable ...

Archaeologists working in Europe have found the oldest-known bone spear in Europe, dating back to the Neanderthal age between ... have a sharply pointed (needle-like) distal end (in contrast ...