The First Spears
The Ancients
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The History of the Shonenin Spears
We don't have any hominin remains yet from Shonenin. And I think everyone's sort of hoped we might, after decades of excavation, find human remains. To my thinking, a lot of aspects of their technology are pointing us to subsequent periods where we start to see a more sort of middle-pelly, lithic, Neanderthal type technology. So this is an example of how these are not just chimpanzees, style, sharpened sticks. They are sophisticated, designed objects. There's real method in their creation.
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