One of the iconic weapons of the Paleolithic is the fire-hardened spear ... it turns out that our hunter ancestors were wrong about fire-hardening. Yes, the charring can make wood slightly ...

For decades, we’ve believed that Ice Age humans hunted massive ... These points are sharp spears with slender designs that often had tips made of chert, obsidian, jasper, and other stone ...

We’re focused on a rectangle in the ice ... I slip the spear’s tines 6 inches into the water and lean out as far as I’m able to get directly above the fish. I check to make sure the spear ...

Researchers say they've found a 10,000-year-old hunting weapon that had been preserved in melting ice near Yellowstone National Park. The spear-like ... It's made of birch and looks like a bent ...

The spear tip, called a Clovis point, would have functioned like a modern day hollow-point bullet when the weapon was planted and angled towards preyCredit: Scott Byram Humans of the Ice Age may ...

A few weeks before the spear was found, archeologists made another discovery in the ... was found sticking out of an ice patch in the Yukon Territory. The Carcross/Tagish First Nations was ...