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2013-11-27 00:21:58.368876+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Oldest Javelins Predate Modern Humans, Raise Questions on Evolution:

The oldest known stone-tipped projectiles have been discovered in Ethiopia. The javelins are roughly 280,000 years old and predate the earliest known fossils of our species, Homo sapiens, by about 80,000 years.

Heck, I had no idea that the fossil record for stoned tipped spears (with marks consistent with thrusting) went back half a millenium.

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