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 ...

Archaeologists recently unearthed a bone projectile point someone dropped on a cave floor between 70,000 and 80,000 years ago ...

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

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

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

Archaeologists working in Europe have found the oldest-known bone spear in Europe, dating back to the Neanderthal age between ...

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

The most surprising aspect is that this artifact is the oldest of its kind in Europe ... bone spear tips later made by modern humans, but more rudimentary. The Neanderthals were taking their first ...

Archaeologists in the Caucasus Mountains have unearthed the oldest spear tip ever found in Europe, challenging the long-held ...