Stone Tip Cross-Sectional Geometry Contributes to Thrusting Spear Performance [pdf 20pp] #SpearPoints #ProjectilePoints #palaeolithic #HunterForagers #HunterGatherers @Paleoanth_Journ https://doi.org/10.48738/2025.iss2.3863
Stone Tip Cross-Sectional Geometry Contributes to Thrusting Spear Performance | PaleoAnthropology

Do these findings from #GrotteMandrin in #France represent the earliest yet known #ProjectilePoints in Eurasia, pushing back #bow-and-#arrow 🏹 technology in Europe back to 54,000 years ago?

L. Metz et al., Science Advances 9(8), 2023. 🔓

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.add4675