Archaeologist Annemieke Milks had convened a sporting event of prehistoric proportions. The athletes: Six javelin throwers who approached the physical strength of Neandertals. The weapon: Two replicas ...

Attaching a stone tip on to a wooden spear shaft was a significant innovation for early modern humans living around 500,000 years ago. However, it was also a costly behavior in terms of time and ...

Experimental comparison may show that stone-tipped spears do not penetrate as deep, but may still cause more damage, than sharpened wooden spears, according to a study published August 27, 2014 in the ...

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Neanderthals have been imagined as the inferior cousins of modern humans, but a new study by archaeologists at UCL reveals for the first time that they produced weaponry advanced enough to kill at a ...

A man armed with a homemade wooden spear was shot by a Glendale police officer on Saturday night after officers responded to a threatening 911 call, officials said. “The caller stated he had a gun ...

GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) - A man armed with a homemade spear that had a pointed end has been shot and wounded by Glendale police. Police didn’t immediately release the name of the 23-year-old man Sunday.