Archaeologists in Germany have identified a set of wooden spears that might be younger than previous estimates. This shift in ...

An 80,000-year-old bone spear tip, unearthed in Russia, challenges previous assumptions about Neanderthal capabilities. This ...

The coincidental emergence of lactase persistence mutations with livestock domestication was taken by many scientists at the ...

An ancient spear tip, buried for 80,000 years, has just turned our understanding of prehistoric technology upside down.

Directly dating fossils from the same layers as the Schöningen spears led researchers to the surprising finding that the ...

The beginning of Homo sapiens belief in gods did not start with a sense of awe, as primitive human beings observed the sun and moon with a sense of wonder. That is too philosophical. More likely it ...

Archaeologists discovered a bone spearhead approximately 80,000 years old, identified as the oldest bone spearhead in Europe ...

Researchers have found that a spear tip carved from bone, unearthed from Russia in 2003, is as old as 80,000 years.

A Neanderthal artefact found in a cave in the Caucasus Mountains is the oldest bone spear tip ever found in Europe, a new ...

If you ever travel back in time to hang out with Homo sapiens around 41,000 years ago, pack some sunscreen – or better yet, a ...

A revised age for a German site indicates that our evolutionary cousins organized horse ambushes around 200,000 years ago.

The world’s oldest wooden spears were probably made by Neanderthals around 200,000 years ago and used to annihilate entire ...