Researchers have found that a spear tip carved from bone, unearthed from Russia in 2003, is as old as 80,000 years. This means the hunting weapon could not have been created by modern humans. Although ...

One of the iconic weapons of the Paleolithic is the fire-hardened spear, its wooden tip carbonized by fire to a wicked point. Unfortunately, it turns out that our hunter ancestors were wrong about ...

A hunter missed the mark almost 14,000 years ago, but their bad luck left a valuable discovery stuck in the skeleton of their ancient prey. Dubbed the “Manis projectile point,” the ancient spear tip ...

A spear point found embedded in the bone of a mastodon is the oldest bone weapon in America, researchers say. Center for the Study of the First Americans, Texas A&M University A hunter missed the mark ...