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Tatsunen t1_itutca5 wrote

Reply to comment by Buck_Thorn in Archaeologists unearth two Viking Age swords in burial ground - HeritageDaily - Archaeology News by GullyShotta

And the first known stone spear points date back to around 460,000 years ago, which really puts the period when metal weapon use began into perspective.

https://www.archaeology.org/issues/81-1303/trenches/523-south-africa-earliest-spears

Even that is millions of years after the first use of stone hand axes and other tools though.

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