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Archaeologist Annemieke Milks had convened a sporting event of prehistoric proportions. The athletes: Six javelin throwers who approached the physical strength of Neandertals. The weapon: Two replicas ...

A team of archaeologists analyzed injuries to the skeletons of two deer and then attacked deer pelvises with sensor-equipped wooden spears to replicate the wounds. The result is a rare insight into ...

One of the iconic weapons of the Paleolithic is the fire-hardened spear, its wooden tip carbonized by fire to a wicked point. Unfortunately, it turns out that our hunter ancestors were wrong about ...

Researchers from University College London recruited six javelin athletes to test the efficacy of Neanderthal spear replicas Courtesy of Annemieke Milks and UCL To the average individual, a simple ...