Stone Age Europeans frail human bones to procure arrowheads

By Michael Marshall

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Stone Age hunters in northern Europe made the engaging ends of their weapons from a pleasing raw arena topic: human bone. The replacement could well merely possess had a symbolic procedure, equivalent to imbuing the arrows with the talent of a ineffective skilled hunter.

Earlier than the appearance of farmers, Europe modified into inhabited by Stone Age hunter-gatherers. They roamed a landscape very assorted to at the brand new time. The planet modified into deep in a glacial interval, so different water modified into locked up in ice sheets at the poles – and sea levels …