- Stone Age Harpoon Discovered in Timor - Piece of 35,000-yr-old complex hunting weapon found d on Australasian island. Wear on its notches & sticky residue suggest it was tied & glued to wooden handle or inserted into a split hollow shaft & used as a spear. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/stone-age-harpoon-found-pacific-island 11 comments history
- Stone Age harpoon found on Pacific island | 'A 35,000-year-old piece of carved bone found on Timor, an island between Java and Papua New Guinea, indicates that complex hunting weapons were manufactured much earlier than previously thought in Australasia.' https://www.sciencenews.org/article/stone-age-harpoon-found-pacific-island 51 comments science
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