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

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

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

The find itself dates to between 70,000 and 80,000 years ago. It was a time when Neanderthals roamed a still-cooling Europe.

A famous cache of wooden spear shafts and other hunting tools was once ascribed to a group of early humans that were not ...

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

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

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

Soon after archaeologists unearthed a set of prehistoric spears alongside the remains of nearly 50 horses in Schöningen, ...

which places the spears in the Middle Pleistocene—a period during which Neanderthals already inhabited Europe. If the spears were 400,000 years old, as originally believed, they could have been made ...

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