Mankind's oldest completely preserved hunting weapons are getting a big research grant. The Schöningen spears are a set of eight wooden throwing spears from the Palaeolithic Age that were ...

Primitive as these weapons may have been, they gave early humans a huge advantage in hunting for calorie-rich meat and for defending themselves from predators or other humans.

Analysis of a 300,000-year-old hunting weapon shows our ancestors were woodwork experts and created personal tools, researchers have discovered. The double-pointed wooden throwing stick, unearthed ...

"With primitive weapons, if there's any doubt, you don't push it," Gill said. After an hour of no movement, Gill felt confident it had expired and soon had the alligator in his canoe.

PRINCETON - A photo of a Princeton University student holding his thesis and an assortment of weapons led police to search the student's Little Hall dorm room last weekend. There they found a ...

Trying their hand at using primitive weapons or holding an artifact that is hundreds or thousands of years old is a great way to do that.