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 ...

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 ...

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 scarcity of Neanderthal bone tools, compared to stone ones, may be due to decay over time, without specific environmental conditions to preserve them. The Mezmaiskaya Cave, where the spear tip was ...

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.