I explore the shocking discovery of 200,000-year-old wooden spears used by Neanderthals to hunt horses. These ancient weapons, found in Schöningen, Germany, are the world’s oldest known wooden hunting ...

Directly dating fossils from the same layers as the Schöningen spears led researchers to the surprising finding that the ...

A famous cache of wooden spear shafts and other hunting tools was once ascribed to a group of early humans that were not ...

This 2014 photo provided by researchers shows a set of wooden hunting spears estimated to be about 200,000 years old ...

A set of ancient wooden spears may be younger than scientists thought and wielded by Neanderthals instead of their ancestors.

World's oldest complete wooden hunting weapons from Schöningen, Germany, are 100,000 years younger than previously claimed ...

The world’s oldest wooden spears were probably made by Neanderthals around 200,000 years ago and used to annihilate entire ...

Researchers have found that a spear tip carved from bone, unearthed from Russia in 2003, is as old as 80,000 years.

A revised age for a German site indicates that our evolutionary cousins organized horse ambushes around 200,000 years ago.

Ancient wooden spears may be younger than thought, possibly wielded by Neanderthals, challenging previous estimates.

Ancient wooden spears unearthed over two decades ago in a German coal mine may be younger than previously thought, potentially shifting our understanding of early human hunting practices.

This 2007 photo provided by researchers shows the end of a wooden hunting spear estimated to be about 200,000 years old discovered in a coal mine in the German town of Schöningen. (C. S.