A recently unearthed, 300,000-year-old wooden stick may have once been thrown by extinct human ancestors hunting wild game, according to new research. On the surface, the find—a short, pointy piece of ...

An artistic reconstruction showing how this 300,000 year-old stick would have been thrown on a hunt. The two-and-a-half foot long stick was first discovered in Schöningen, Germany in 1994 alongside ...

Archaeologists in Germany found a throwing stick that might have been used by a species that preceded Neanderthals. By Nicholas St. Fleur What’s so special about a 300,000-year-old stick stuck in the ...

A 300,000-year-old hunting weapon has shone a new light on early humans as woodworking masters, according to a new study. State-of-the-art analysis of a double-pointed wooden throwing stick, found in ...