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Nimble-Minded Neanderthals May Have Used These Wooden Spears to Hunt 200,000 Years Ago
In the 1990s, archaeologists working near the German town of Schöningen made a remarkable find: a set of ...
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Wooden spears found in a German coal mine could change the history of human hunting
This 2014 photo provided by researchers shows a set of wooden hunting spears estimated to be about 200,000 years old discovered in a coal mine in the German town of Schöningen (Volker Minkus ...
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Ancient wooden spears found in Germany may have been wielded by Neanderthals, a new study suggests
The complete spears ... to hunt. The spears are “pretty sophisticated for something that old," said study co-author Jarod Hutson with the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
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Ancient wooden spears found in Germany may have been wielded by Neanderthals, a new study suggests
This 2007 photo provided by researchers shows the end of a wooden hunting ... The spears are “pretty sophisticated for something that old,” said study co-author Jarod Hutson with the Smithsonian ...