Earliest evidence of the bow-and-arrow found in South Africa

Stone-tipped arrows thought to be 64,000 years old have been found in the Sibundu Cave in South Africa. Lyn Wadley & Marlize Lombard from the University of Johannesburg led...

17 September 2010

ByDiana O'Carroll.

Part of the show Maya burial and abandonment

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Neolithic arrowhead from Saint-Léons, Aveyron, France

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CC-BY-SA - Didier Descouens

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Stone-tipped arrows thought to be 64,000 years old have been found in the Sibundu Cave in South Africa. Lyn Wadley & Marlize Lombard from the University of Johannesburg led the team which analysed the stone tools microscopically to see whether they were from spears or arrows.