The First Spears
The Ancients
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The Evolution of Wooden Spears
Do we have any idea roughly for how long wooden spears remain in existence by in the use of upper paleolithic or mid-paleolithic communities? I think to my mind it makes sense that wooden spears continued to play a role in the hunting kit that hominins had and our own species had right the way through. These are such amazing examples from our deep human prehistory to survive. And you've done a lot of work with regards to experimental archaeology in testing out the effectiveness, the use of these very early spears. How do you use an archaeological archaeology using replicas like these to get more of a sense of how they would have been used hundreds of thousands of years ago
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