Archaeologists recently unearthed a bone projectile point someone dropped on a cave floor between 70,000 and 80,000 years ago ...

Before the development of eyed needles, humans had been creating clothing with bone awls since at least 70,000 years ago. The earliest known eyed needles appeared about 40,000 years ago and were ...

Bone projectile points were flexible, light, general-purpose weapons for hunting large land animals. To be as lethal as possible, their tips were chiseled to exquisite sharpness. This is a North ...

distal end (in contrast to bone awls), but it needs to have a strong, conical tip, symmetrical outlines, and a straight profile,” the study’s authors wrote. The spear had clearly been used ...