What Made Us Human? Being Armed With Lethal Ranged Weapons
8th November 2012
Boffins investigating a find of ancient stone blades over 70 thousand years old argue that it was possession of advanced ranged weapons – and the organisation to make and use them – which allowed humanity to defeat its early rivals and spread out to conquer the world.
November 8th, 2012 at 15:00
Meh.
A warmed-over version of Robert Ardrey’s The Territorial Imperative argument from 1966, with stone points substituting for bone clubs.
There is nothing new under the sun.