cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/HistoryArtifacts/t/834466
Oldest wooden spear known to exist | Schöningen, Germany (400,000 BCE)
More information: https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/behavior/getting-food/oldest-wooden-spear
this post was submitted on 14 Feb 2024
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This wooden spear is 400,00 years old
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clacton_Spear
The Schöningen spears have been updated to 300,000 years old
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sch%C3%B6ningen_spears
so, we have at least 2 common interests : aigen and sticks 🤣
the earliest and the latest tools :)
Haha hopefully not the last tool we make.
I was walking in a forest today and there was so many sticks i wanted to pick up! I had to leave them because animals need them more than I do.
Someone even stacked them so I took a photo
https://imgur.com/dRRftWK
i made a rather reliable stick from a broken holly branch I've found years ago. When i enter the forest with a "walking stick" already in hand, i no longer feel that need to pick up sticks
somehow hacked that strange desire to pick up sticks 🤷