Weapons Like These
Lucinda Backwell |
 
Weapons Like These
Shown are examples of what bushman-type bone arrows look like when secured with sinew to reed shafts. A recently analyzed 60,000-year-old bone point would've been part of such an object, researchers believe.
 
 
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