Among 80,000 artifacts from the sacred Japanese island of Okinoshima, Japanese researchers discovered an intricately ...

Archaeologists found the gold-plated artifact on a sacred island of Japan almost 70 years ago but only recently took a closer ...

BINGHAMTON, N.Y., Feb. 16 (UPI) --Many researchers believe the ancient civilization of Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, was decimated by war. Their evidence includes a number of triangular spear-like ...

The spear tip, about 30 centimeters long, was excavated on Okinoshima island, a World Heritage site, in Munakata, Fukuoka Prefecture, ... The cross section of the spear is triangular.

Archaeologists have discovered two previously unknown forms of spearpoint technology at a site in Texas. The triangular blades appear to be older than the projectile points produced by the ...

The use of Madison Triangular points signifies the transition from spear points to “true arrowheads” and the introduction of the bow and arrow to the Fort McCoy area during the Late Woodland ...

Early European visitors to Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui, wrote in the late 1700s that the islanders carried spears topped with sharp, triangular pieces of glassy lava, or obsidian.

COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS—According to a Science News report, spear points made some 15,500 years ago have been discovered at the Debra L. Friedkin archaeological site in central Texas, underneath ...