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Directly dating fossils from the same layers as the Schöningen spears led researchers to the surprising finding that the weapons ...
Archaeologists working near the German town of Schöningen in the 1990s found a set of well-preserved wooden spears crafted ...
A set of ancient wooden spears may be younger than scientists thought and wielded by Neanderthals instead of their ancestors.
Ancient snail shells helped archeologists re-evaluate the age of the oldest known wooden weapons collection: a site in Lower Saxony, Germany, famous for its arsenal of hunting equipment, including ...
The discovery, made in Schöningen, includes complete spears crafted from spruce and pine, considered among the oldest hunting weapons ever found. Alongside the spears, researchers also unearthed ...
A set of ancient wooden spears may be younger than scientists thought and wielded by Neanderthals instead of their ancestors. The complete spears made of spruce and pine are among the oldest known ...
The complete spears made of spruce and pine are among the oldest known hunting weapons. They were discovered in a coal mine over two decades ago in the German town of Schöningen along with the ...