00:03When 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.
00:33The 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,
00:42which 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,
00:53in 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.
01:07And here we go.
01:07Now this is a kind of meditation.
01:07Next, if we can select the other way or the other direction.
01:10I hope so.
01:10I hope so.
01:10I hope so.
01:10We have one take on the time.
01:10all the time we do.
01:10I hope so.
01:11I hope so.
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