Archaeologists May Have Found the Oldest Evidence of Archery in Europe.mp4

And they are tens of thousands of years older than previous finds

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00:00When I say the word technology, something like this no doubt comes to mind.

00:07But thousands of years ago, one of these was the height of human innovation.

00:11It was believed that Homo sapiens started using bows and arrows in Europe only around 12,000 years ago,

00:16but new evidence suggests it was much, much earlier than that.

00:19Experts say that evidence of bow use in Africa has been detected as far back as 70,000 years,

00:24but never this far north that early.

00:26However, recently arrowheads were found in a cave in southern France,

00:29and those arrowheads were from around 54,000 years ago.

00:32The cave has evidence of habitation by both Neanderthals and Homo sapiens.

00:36However, the arrowheads were found in the layers of sediment specifically from when our species populated it,

00:41which the researchers say shows that despite the two bipedal species no doubt crossing paths at some point,

00:46Neanderthals continued to use traditional non-projectile weaponry.

00:49The researchers even recreated the arrowheads they discovered in the cave,

00:52in an attempt to test and see if they would be useful as other weapons to rule those out,

00:56with one of the researchers telling AFP, quote,

00:59We couldn't throw them at the animals any other way than with a bow,

01:02because they were too tiny and too light to be efficient.

01:04We had to use this kind of propulsion.

01:07We had to use this kind of machine.

01:08Go network building on the mountain of the sea,

01:14independant of the sea,

01:15keep running on the mountain.

01:16We had to use it in the manger,

01:17and then let's go watch this.

01:18We had to use it.

01:19We had to be able to find out a great反 WORLD score.

01:20You won't count this.

01:21We had to use the weather.

01:22We need to use it.

01:24We're going to wait 10,000 years to live in the groundhouse.

01:26We have to use it.

01:27We are going to see it.