The world's oldest spears

Robin Dennell
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Robin Dennell: University of Sheffield

Nature, 1997, vol. 385, issue 6619, 767-768

Abstract: Humans of 400,000 years ago were sophisticated big-game hunters. Complete hunting spears discovered in a German coal-mine puncture the idea that these people hadn't the technology or foresight to hunt systematically.

Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.1038/385767a0

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