9 December, 2017 - 13:59 Alicia McDermott
Stone Age Men Could Kill with One Swing of Their Club
Did war exist in Neolithic times? There is some controversy surrounding this idea, however it is known that violence took place. Archaeologists debate on exactly how much this happened, the nature and the reasons for it, but the story of which weapons were used is beginning to become clearer. All it took was some experimental archaeology, a healthy 30-year old man, and a wooden club replica.
Study leader Meaghan Dyer, a doctoral student at the University of Edinburgh, told Live Science that the point of this research was not to examine the causes of Neolithic violence, but to discover more about the weapons used at the time. A major issue with this research topic is the fact that few objects definitively used for violence have survived from the Stone Age. As mentioned in the study article published in Antiquity , bows and arrows, axes, clubs, and possible sling-type tools, had to all be considered as potential weapons from that time. "We wanted to see if we could come up with a really efficient method to determine which tools could be used as weapons," Dyer said .
http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/stone-age-men-could-kill-one-swing-their-club-009252
