In addition, since a stone-tipped spear is a skill likely to have been ... are more likely to cooperate when others have very lethal weapons—a situation still in play today.

But scientists say that stone spear points used by our ancestors 500,000 years ago, are comparable to bullets that expand on impact because they create large ‘wounds’. They think that the use ...

It was among early man’s greatest technological feats: a fully engineered weapon that combined a wooden shaft, mixed adhesives and a stone that had been chiseled to a lethal point. To many ...

Rocks carved into ancient stone arrowheads or into lethal tools for hurling spears suggest humans innovated relatively advanced weapons much earlier than thought, researchers in South Africa say ...

The common belief was that these prehistoric hunters used intricately crafted stone-tipped spears, known as Clovis points ... delivering a more lethal blow than even the strongest human could manage ...

The authors of a new paper suggest that our ancestors may have possessed this lethal technology ... wooden elements are the spears' inorganic components, like stone points that once sat atop ...

In addition, since a stone-tipped spear is a skill likely to have been ... are more likely to cooperate when others have very lethal weapons -- a situation still in play today.