Observatory: Hunters Used Stone-Tipped Spears 500,000 Years Ago

Monday, November 19, 2012 - 20:31 in Paleontology & Archaeology

The finding that stone-tipped spears were used for hunting 500,000 years ago — 200,000 years earlier than previously thought — suggests that the behavioral complexity of human ancestors was greater than researchers have understood.

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