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The First Spears

The Ancients

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The History of Inventions

We think that is definitely the tip of the spear which would be thrust or thrown into probably a hunting site, so probably an animal. And we don't have any hunting lesions yet at Shonningen. They haven't found any evidence on the animal bones that show that it was impacted with a spear,. But scores of butchered horses, for example. Again, in experiments we've shown that these types of spears are capable of creating lethal wound on an animal like a horse. It isn't an ineffective weapon. So subscribe to patented from History Hit on Apple, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts to catch new episodes every Wednesday and Sunday.

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