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Archaeologists digging in a cave in southern France say they have unearthed the earliest evidence of bow and arrow use outside Africa. Grotte Mandrin, near Malataverne in the Rhône Valley, is a cave ...

Based on research in France’s Mandarin cave, in February 2022, we published a study in the journal Science Advances that pushed back the earliest evidence of the arrival of the first Homo sapiens in ...

The sharp tips of Meinecke's hunting arrows are made of stone he shapes himself, called knapping, by chipping away at chert, flint or other kinds of rock. (NWA Democrat-Gazette/Flip Putthoff) Modern ...

If the emergence of mechanically propelled weapons in prehistory is commonly perceived as one of the hallmarks of the advance of modern human populations into the European continent, the existence of ...