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Atlantia
16th November 2012, 07:17 PM
Thought this was quite an interesting discovery.

It seems some of our ancestors were more 'human' than we previously thought.


First stone-tipped spear thrown earlier than thought

The hunt for food led hominins to cast the first stone half a million years ago – 200,000 years earlier than we thought. Archaeologists have found the oldest evidence yet of stone-tipped spears.

Full article (http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22508-first-stonetipped-spear-thrown-earlier-than-thought.html)