Stone Age people in Belgium were hunting with spear-throwers more than 30,000 years ago — the earliest known evidence of such a weapon in Europe, a new study suggests. After investigating more ...

Spears work better when thrown from a height, but a surprising study finds the same does not apply to weapons launched from an atlatl (spear thrower ... spears found at Paleolithic sites.

Paleolithic hunters often inhabited landscapes ... inferring anything about the spear throwers requires a contextual understanding of which hunting strategy benefited them most.