Ancient hunters may have used throwing spears 300,000 years ago

Prehistoric people spent spears 300,000 years ago to hunt large animals. They indicate that new ways of analyzing preserved wooden spears could be thrown in a medium distance, as well as those used for impulse.

“Traditionally, you would say that throwing is simpler, as a technological concept,” he says Dirk Leder Hanover, German cultural heritage at the Low Office of Saxony. “You must understand aerodynamics …