The oldest known bone spear tip in Europe has been identified in a cave in southwest Russia. Dated to between 70,000 and ...

Will Spear was quiet those first years at the Beaches Sabre Club-NY in Troy, a fencing club and school where the motto is, "We fight well with others." He was 7 years old then, far from the lanky ...

Attaching a stone tip on to a wooden spear shaft was a significant innovation for early modern humans living around 500,000 years ago. However, it was also a costly behavior in terms of time and ...

Stone-tipped spears lethal, may indicate early cognitive and social skills Date: August 27, 2014 Source: Arizona State University Summary: Attaching a stone tip on to a wooden spear shaft was a ...

Experimental comparison may show that stone-tipped spears do not penetrate as deep, but may still cause more damage, than sharpened wooden spears.

A man throws a spear during the Tapati festival on Easter Island. Scientists say recently found artifacts show humans used stone-tipped spears up to 300,000 years earlier than previously thought ...

The hunt for food led hominins to cast the first stone half a million years ago – 200,000 years earlier than we thought. Archaeologists have found the oldest evidence yet of stone-tipped spears ...

To confirm that the triangular stones were in fact spear tips and not created through natural processes, the anthropologists created replica spears and used crossbows to fire them at animal carcasses.

Remains of the world’s oldest known stone-tipped throwing spears, described in a new paper, and so ancient that they actually predate the earliest known fossils for our species by 85,000 years.

Spears feel very much like a human weapon of war—so it’s surprising to find out that, in fact, the stone-tipped projectiles pre-date our species by a bewildering 85,000 years. A team of ...

Behind the fencer's mask, Jeff Spear has control. It's his bout to win or lose. Beijing medals In 2008, the United States earned silver medals in men's team sabre and women's team foil and a ...