A Review of Ethnographic Use of Wooden Spears and Implications for Pleistocene Hominin Hunting
Wooden spears are amongst the earliest weapons known from the archaeological record, with broken and complete examples known from Middle and Late Pleistocene Eurasian, Australian and South American sites. They were manufactured and used by multiple species of 'Homo', including 'H. sap...
| Published in: | Open Quaternary |
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| Main Author: | Annemieke Milks |
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Ubiquity Press
2020-09-01
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| Online Access: | https://www.openquaternary.com/articles/85 |
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