Here’s how it works. Stone Age people in Belgium were hunting with spear-throwers more than 30,000 years ago — the earliest known evidence of such a weapon in Europe, a new study suggests.

The first North American hunters used spear-throwers to hurl their weapons ... A discovery at a prehistoric site in Armenia shows that a way of producing stone tolls known as Levallois technology ...

The new study is "fascinating," Pierre Cattelain, an archaeologist at the Free University of Brussels and an expert in Paleolithic hunting with spear-throwers, spears and bows, told Live Science ...

A new study has demonstrated that the atlatl (i.e. spear thrower) functions as an 'equalizer', a finding which supports women's potential active role as prehistoric hunters. A new study led by ...

Paleolithic hunters often inhabited landscapes ... inferring anything about the spear throwers requires a contextual understanding of which hunting strategy benefited them most.

A prehistoric spear thrower is turning the idea of women as passive gatherers who left the hunting to men on its head. The atlatl, a handheld, rod-shaped device that uses leverage to launch a dart ...

The athletes: Six javelin throwers who approached the physical ... The test: Could Neandertals, the likely makers of the Stone Age weapon, have hurled the spears at prey with any power, accuracy ...

Welcome to the Magdalenian period, one of the last hunter-gatherer cultures of the Upper Paleolithic ... delicately carved reindeer antler spear-thrower. It depicts what appears to be a young ...

researchers Justin Garnett and Frederic Sellet think that so-called open rings made of reindeer antler found at Upper Paleolithic sites in France may have been finger loops for gripping spear ...

The first North American hunters used spear-throwers to hurl their weapons ... A discovery at a prehistoric site in Armenia shows that a way of producing stone tolls known as Levallois technology ...

Here we see a hand clenching around the end of a wooden spear, with the forefinger in the "open ring" finger loop.