@article{ref1,
title="A 300,000-year-old throwing stick from Schöningen, northern Germany, documents the evolution of human hunting",
journal="Nature ecology and evolution",
year="2020",
author="Conard, Nicholas J. and Serangeli, Jordi and Bigga, Gerlinde and Rots, Veerle",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="The poor preservation of Palaeolithic sites rarely allows the recovery of wooden artefacts, which served as key tools in the arsenals of early hunters. Here, we report the discovery of a wooden throwing stick from the Middle Pleistocene open-air site of Schöningen that expands the range of Palaeolithic weaponry and establishes that late Lower Palaeolithic hominins in Northern Europe were highly effective hunters with a wide array of wooden weapons that are rarely preserved in the archaeological record.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2397-334X",
doi="10.1038/s41559-020-1139-0",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-1139-0"
}