A 300,000 year-old double-pointed wooden stick was produced by Middle Pleistocene humans using sophisticated woodworking techniques and was likely used for throwing during hunts

Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0287719

Article Title: A double-pointed wooden throwing stick from Schöningen, Germany: Results and new insights from a multianalytical study

Author Countries: UK, Germany

Funding: T.T. and this project are funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) – project number 447423357. https://www.dfg.de/ . The project is further funded by the Lower Saxony Ministry for Science and Culture, with funds from the Future Lower Saxony Programme of the Volkswagen Foundation – project number ZN3985. https://www.mwk.niedersachsen.de/zukunft.niedersachsen . A.M. Is funded by the British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship PF21/210027. https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/ . The funders had no role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

PLOS ONE

10.1371/journal.pone.0287719

A double-pointed wooden throwing stick from Schöningen, Germany: Results and new insights from a multianalytical study

19-Jul-2023

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.