Scientists have uncovered a cache of ancient weapons hidden deep inside a cave in the Judean Desert, opening a window to ...

Proper trees to make spear shafts might be found only every ... (The Hill) — Popular depictions of prehistoric hunts tend to show ancient humans hurling their spears into mammoths and mastodons.

A collection of 6,500-year-old wooden dart tips found deep within a Texas cave were likely, at one point in their usage, ...

The ancient weapons include notched ends for the darts of a spear thrower, or atlatl; the foreshafts of darts that had stone tips; and the foreshafts of darts that were probably poisoned.

A boomerang, stone dart components and a spear-throwing device called an atlatl used by ancient humans almost everywhere in the world were found at the West Texas site, along with a folded ...

The hunting kit contained tools such as four dart nock ends that fit against an ancient spear-throwing device called an atlatl; a straight flying boomerang; six stone-tipped foreshafts to connect ...

Archaeologists at Big Bend National Park made a fascinating discovery of possibly the oldest ancient weapons in North ... a boomerang and a spear-throwing tool that dates as far back as 7,000 ...