Did Pleistocene Africans use the spearthrower-and-dart?

Evol Anthropol

Department of Anthropology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA.

Published: September 2021

Archeologists commonly suppose that among complex projectile weapons humans use as subsistence aids, the spearthrower-and-dart preceded bow-and-arrow use. And yet, neither ethnographic nor archeological records furnish any robust evidence for spearthrower-and-dart use in Africa. Instead, evidence grows apace for ever-more ancient bow-and-arrow use. Here we explore these findings and their implications for models of early Homo sapiens behavior.

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