A New Look at One of the Oldest Weapons
What a 300,000-year-old throwing stick reveals about our near-human ancestors. The post A New Look at One of the Oldest Weapons appeared first on Nautilus.
Not long ago, Alexander Langlands started whittling sticks. The archaeologist felt a subliminal longing toward the pastime. “It’s addictive,” he writes in his 2017 book Cræft: An Inquiry Into the Origins and True Meaning of Traditional Crafts. “And evidently in my blood.”
When Langlands was growing up, he couldn’t remember a time when his father wasn’t carving intricate figures into walking sticks. But Langlands never guessed he’d find himself in his father’s
