Hacker News
- External ballistics of Pleistocene hand-thrown spears (2019) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-37904-w 8 comments
- A new study examined the performance of replicas of the 300,000 year old Schöningen spears—the oldest weapons reported in archaeological records—to identify whether Neanderthal's javelin throwers could use them to hit a target at distance and it found they did https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-37904-w 3 comments science
Linking pages
- Neanderthals 'could kill at a distance' - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46988459 8 comments
- Neandertals' spears may have been built for throwing | Science News https://www.sciencenews.org/article/why-modern-javelin-throwers-hurled-neandertal-spears-hay-bales?tgt=nr 5 comments