Early humans used expert woodwork skills to make hunting weapons – study

Artist’s reconstruction showing how the stick would have been thrown (Benoit Clarys/Universitat Tubingen)

A 300,000-year-old hunting weapon has shed new light on early humans as woodworking masters, researchers have said.

The double-pointed wooden stick was produced by Middle Pleistocene humans using sophisticated techniques and was likely used for throwing during hunts, experts suggest.