New Study Redates Famous Schöningen Spears

Archaeology Magazine ^ | May 13, 2025 | editors / unattributed

[SunkenCiv]

• 300,000-year-old throwing stick documents the evolution of hunting [04/26/2020]
• Direct evidence of Neanderthal fibre technology and its cognitive and behavioral implications [04/10/2020]
• New insights on the wooden weapons from the Paleolithic site of Schoningen [10/25/2015]
• Skilled hunters 300,000 years ago [09/18/2012]
• 400,000 year old spears found in an German coal mine! [10/11/2010]

[SunkenCiv]

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Didn't Schöningen have a famous cat?

[Magnum44]

[Dr. Franklin]

We are all descended from spear chuckers, but some cultures continued to chuck spears when other cultures graduated to more advanced weapons.

[Magnum44]

[dfwgator]

"Leave Schöningen Alone!"

[Resolute Conservative]

Close, Shrodinger’s...

[TexasFreeper2009]

many recent stories have determined that Neanderthals were highly inbred and likely might have bred themselves into extinction by having children with their children

[SunkenCiv]

:^) Well, I think Neal Schoningen used to get a lot of, uh, never mind...

[SunkenCiv]

Just one would be interesting. There’s no evidence that they were any more inbred than their descendants, among whom are most of the living population of the Earth.

[SunkenCiv]

[ProtectOurFreedom]

That reminds me of woodchucks.

[SunkenCiv]

[ckilmer]

That was in the last 100,000 years. However, earlier populations were not inbred.

[Honorary Serb]

Neanderthals were smarter than originally thought. And we all have Neanderthal ancestors.

And the proof that we all have Neanderthal ancestors was deemed worthy of a Nobel Prize for Svante Paabo!

[Texan5]

Where did you read that? Since we all have 1-3% of their DNA, it would appear more likely they were absorbed by modern humans over time. Since it appears Neanderthals were never a very large population to begin with, living in limited areas of an otherwise inhospitable place, about 40,000 years was probably time enough for a more numerous race of humans to absorb a smaller one. “You will be assimilated-resistance is futile”...

[Verginius Rufus]

I’m amazed that they found evidence for umlauts 200,000 years ago.

[Libloather]

Schöningen spears

Goes good with burgers.

[SunkenCiv]

:^) And we continue to climb the spiral ladder.