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 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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Spears work better when thrown from a height, but a surprising study finds the same does not apply to weapons launched from an atlatl (spear thrower ... spears found at Paleolithic sites.

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 ...

About 50,000 years ago more complex hunting systems like the bow and arrow and spear thrower, were used regularly by Homo Sapiens. At the end of the Upper Paleolithic, about 25,000 years ago ...

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 ...

About 50,000 years ago, more complex hunting systems like the bow-and-arrow and spear thrower began to be used regularly by Homo sapiens. At the end of the Upper Paleolithic about 25,000 years ago ...

The basic chronology — Stone Age to Bronze Age to ... She tested the spears’ external ballistics by enlisting six trained male javelin throwers, aged 18 to 34, to heave replicas at hay bales ...