Citation

Conard NJ, Serangeli J, Bigga G, Rots V. Nat. Ecol. Evol. 2020; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Affiliation

TraceoLab/Prehistory, F.R.S.-FNRS, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2020, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1038/s41559-020-1139-0

PMID

32313174

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.

Language: en