Neanderthals Crafted Bone Spears 30,000 Years Before Modern Humans Came In

Neanderthals Crafted Bone Spears 30,000 Years Before Modern Humans Came In

An 80,000-year-old spear point rewrites what we thought we knew about Neanderthals.

Neandertals invented bone-tipped spears all on their own

An 80,000-year-old bone point found in Eastern Europe challenges the idea that migrating Homo sapiens gave the technology to Neandertals.

Neanderthals' intelligence and toolmaking skills revealed by modern technology

In a new paper published in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, researchers from the University of Wollongong in Australia have discovered that Neanderthals had precise control over the angle at which they struck stone cores to produce tools, offering new information on the cognitive and motor skills involved in Middle Paleolithic stone tool production. Neanderthal family, photo taken at the Anthropos Pavilion in Brno, Czech Republic. C…

The creation of bone-tipped spears was self-perception by the Neandertals

A 50,000-year-old inhabitant of Neandertals could have been crafting projectile weapons from animal bones.The July Journal of Archaeological...

The Neandertals may have forged projectile weapons from animal bones 50,000 years earlier than previously thought. A fragment of bone determined from about 80,000-year-old rocks in Europe shows signs of sharpness and bitumen residue – a sticky tar suggesting that the point was once [...]