External ballistics of Pleistocene hand-thrown spears: experimental performance data and implications for human evolution

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External ballistics of Pleistocene hand-thrown spears (2019)

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External ballistics of Pleistocene hand-thrown spears: experimental performance data and implications for human evolution

User Duntley, 26 Jan 2019

A new study examined the performance of replicas of the 300,000 year old Schöningen spears—the oldest weapons reported in archaeological records—to identify whether Neanderthal's javelin throwers could use them to hit a target at distance and it found they did

User Mass1m01973, in the Reddit Science subreddit, 25 Jan 2019