A 300,000-year-old hunting weapon has shone a new light on early humans as woodworking masters, according to a new study. State-of-the-art analysis of a double-pointed wooden throwing stick, found in ...

A 300,000-year-old wooden stick, one of the oldest weapons ever found, may have been thrown like a boomerang to stun animals. The first weapons used by ancient humans are likely to have been made from ...

Throwing stick under the 3D microscope: this allows the details of the methods used to process the wood to be investigated at high resolution.

State-of-the-art analysis of a 300,000 wooden throwing found in Germany three decades ago, shows early humans used advanced woodworking techniques. A 300,000-year-old hunting weapon has shone a new ...