One of the iconic weapons of the Paleolithic is the fire-hardened spear, its wooden tip carbonized by fire to a wicked point. Unfortunately, it turns out that our hunter ancestors were wrong ...

The spear tip was found back in 2003 in a sediment layer in a cave in the North Caucasus, Russia, along with a host of bones from a variety of animals, and also the remnants of a campfire. It was ...

Archaeologists in the Caucasus Mountains have unearthed the oldest spear tip ever found in Europe, challenging the long-held belief that Neanderthals did not create tools from bone. The ...

A bone spear tip from the North Caucasus, Russia, dated to 80,000–70,000 years ago, represents the oldest such artifact in Europe and was crafted by Neanderthals.