In 2022 we detailed the discovery of 1,500 stone points in France’s Madrin cave. Experiments now show that they could were used as arrowheads, pushing back evidence of archery in Eurasia by 40,000 years.
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The ancient bone arrowheads are the oldest ever found outside Africa, and show how humans adapted to a new environment.
The artefact comes from deposits dated to more than 60,000 years ago. It closely resembles thousands of bone arrowheads used by the indigenous San hunter-gatherers from the 18th to the 20th centuries.
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Lecturer of Anthropology and Assistant Director of the Turkana Basin Institute, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
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Associate Professor of Archaeology, Griffith University
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Archéologue, penseur et chercheur au CNRS, Université de Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier
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