kharvati, 1 year ago

Super exciting new results from Mandrin cave, pointing to the use of bow & arrow by early modern humans in Europe at ca. 54 ka

following up on previous work showing a modern human incursion into Neanderthal territories at the same site

See #openaccess article by Metz et al.

'Bow-and-arrow, technology of the first modern humans in Europe 54,000 years ago at Mandrin, France'
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.add4675

and news write-up
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-bow-and-arrow-technology-modern-humans-europe.html

#humanevolution #paleolithic #archaeology