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11/24/2007: "400,000 years of European evolution"

Radiocarbon dating has confirmed that three wooden spears found in a coal mine in Schöningen, near Hannover, Germany, are the oldest complete hunting weapons ever found. Some 380,000 to 400,000 years old, the six- to 7.5-foot javelins were found in soil whose acids had been neutralized by a high concentration of chalk near the coal pit.

They suggest that early man was able to hunt, and was not just a scavenger. The development of such weapons may have been crucial to the settling of Stone Age northern Europe, whose cold climate and
short daylight hours limited hunting.

[ The mainstream media keeps telling us 30,000 years. Seems like that's a lie. ]

http://www.archaeology.org/9705/newsbriefs/spears.html