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from the YOU-try-sneaking-up-and-stabbing-a-wild-animal dept.
Archaeologist Annemieke Milks' recently published study, albeit done in 2015, suggests that some extinct hominids probably didn't just stab prey from a close distance, but may have also occasionally threw spears. The study had a group of athletes, particularly strong javelin throwers, throw replicas of a 300,000-year-old wooden spear, one of nine ancient hunting tools discovered at Germany's Schöningen coal mine, at a bale of hay for accuracy.
Many researchers have suspected that Neandertals or their ancestors snuck up on and stabbed prey with the pointed wooden rods. That idea aligns with a popular assumption that Stone Age Homo sapiens had a monopoly on hurling spears at prey. Yet bodies capable of accurate and powerful throwing may have emerged nearly 2 million years ago in Homo erectus (SN Online: 6/26/13). So why not Neandertals?
Now data from high-speed video cameras at Milks' unusual throw-off, held in January 2015 and reported online January 25 in Scientific Reports, suggest that Neandertals might have used the spears for long-range hunting.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday February 03 2019, @06:04PM (3 children)
I also keep gauze and the trio of alcohol, 3% peroxide, and povidone around. You're not paranoid; you're *smart.* Who the hell modded you down? +1 from me not least because you could save someone's life in the coming post-antibiotics era.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday February 03 2019, @09:54PM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Povidone-iodine [wikipedia.org]
Never heard of it for some reason. Thanks.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 04 2019, @05:25PM (1 child)
I carry around viagra and a condom. Am I teh smartz?
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday February 04 2019, @05:29PM
Did you get a vazectomy?
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