The find itself dates to between 70,000 and 80,000 years ago. It was a time when Neanderthals roamed a still-cooling Europe.

A Neanderthal artefact found in a cave in the Caucasus Mountains is the oldest bone spear tip ever found in Europe, a new ...

An 80,000-year-old bone spear tip, unearthed in Russia, challenges previous assumptions about Neanderthal capabilities. This ...

Mezmaiskaya Cave, an area of more than 5,000 square feet, has been excavated since 1987, and the lower layers of sediment ...

Pregnancy was deeply political and far from uniform in meaning for Viking-age communities. It shaped – and was shaped by – ...

An 80,000-year-old bone point found in Eastern Europe challenges the idea that migrating Homo sapiens gave the technology to Neandertals.

The tip was carved into a point, making it the oldest known bone tip in Europe. Golovanova, L. V., et al (2025) Journal of Archaeological Science The spear tip was between 70,000 and 80,000 years ...

Even though archaeological and scientific tools have discovered much about these ancient civilizations, including facts about ...