TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2020//
TI  - A 300,000-year-old throwing stick from Schöningen, northern Germany, documents the evolution of human hunting
JO  - Nature ecology and evolution
A1  - Conard, Nicholas J.
A1  - Serangeli, Jordi
A1  - Bigga, Gerlinde
A1  - Rots, Veerle
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 2397-334X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-1139-0
ID  - ref1
ER  -