The poor preservation of Palaeolithic sites rarely allows the recovery of wooden artefacts, which served as key tools in the arsenals of early hunters. Here, we report the discovery of a wooden throwing stick from the Middle Pleistocene open-air site of Schöningen that expands the range of Palaeolithic weaponry and establishes that late Lower Palaeolithic hominins in Northern Europe were highly effective hunters with a wide array of wooden weapons that are rarely preserved in the archaeological record.

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一根来自德国北部舍宁根的具有 30 万年历史的投掷棒记录了人类狩猎的演变过程。

旧石器时代遗址保存不善，很少能恢复木制文物，这些文物是早期猎人武器库中的关键工具。在这里，我们报告了在中更新世 Schöningen 露天遗址发现的一根木制投掷棒，它扩大了旧石器时代武器的范围，并确定了北欧晚期旧石器时代晚期的人类是高效的猎人，拥有各种各样的木制武器，在考古记录中很少保存。