wooden spears – Sticks and Stones

Rethinking Evidence for Early Wooden Weapons at Boxgrove

When I first began my PhD, I set out to understand early wooden weapons—not just what they looked like, but what they could do. Wooden spears rarely survive in the archaeological record, and discoveries of them have challenged our assumptions about the technological and hunting abilities of early humans. When I started my research journey,ContinueContinue reading “Rethinking Evidence for Early Wooden Weapons at Boxgrove”

Tiwi throwing spears

For better or for worse (a bit of both I think), ethnographic research and ethnohistoric accounts have played an important role in how we have interpreted the archaeological signatures that people from the past have left behind. This is nowhere more true than the study of how recent hunter-gatherer groups have manufactured, curated, and usedContinueContinue reading “Tiwi throwing spears”