Stone Age people in Belgium were hunting with spear-throwers more than 30,000 years ago — the earliest known evidence of such a weapon in Europe, a new study suggests.

Gill, 38, leans on the workbench in his shop. By the age of 21, he’d become so proficient at crafting primitive hunting gear that he began selling his handmade tools and teaching others to build ...

Soon after archaeologists unearthed a set of prehistoric spears alongside the remains of nearly 50 horses in Schöningen, Germany in the 1990s, they determined that these were likely the oldest ...

This test was based on some previous experiments that fired stone-tipped spears into clay and ballistics gel. To a nine ton mammoth, this probably would have felt like a tiny pinprick.

Around 13,000 years ago, during the last Ice Age, early humans faced the daunting task of hunting massive creatures like mammoths, mastodons, and saber-toothed cats. The common belief was that these ...

Thomsen could well have substituted Wood Age for Stone Age, ... that was double the range at which scientists had estimated a hand-thrown spear could be useful for hunting,” Dr. Milks said.

Researchers used a replica spear to test how it would respond to different amounts of force. Courtesy of Scott Byram . They also ran the first experimental study of stone weapons that focused on pike ...

Thomsen could well have substituted Wood Age for Stone Age, ... that was double the range at which scientists had estimated a hand-thrown spear could be useful for hunting,” Milks said.

Stone Age people in Belgium were hunting with spear-throwers more than 30,000 years ago — the earliest known evidence of such a weapon in Europe, a new study suggests. After investigating more ...