Tatsunen t1_itutca5 wrote on October 26, 2022 at 1:57 PM 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. Permalink Parent 25
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.