The Origins of the Spears

Up until the discovery of these spears, basically the idea was that hominins were primarily scavenging and probably weren't very capable hunters. People started to really understand that humans were hunting during the Pleistocene. And so we infer from that and from the final record where we see cut marks on bones that humans were probably starting to hunt.

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