Looks like Stone Age people used human bones to make weapons! A grisly discovery on a Netherlands shoreline is making a violent point about life during the Mesolithic era, or Middle Stone Age.
What appear to be multiple arrow points – the smallest being approx 9 cm – have washed up from the North Sea. Dated to between 5300 – 7500 BC, they’re certainly in used condition – various markings indicate a brutal purpose.
What that was isn’t entirely clear but as the Daily Mail writes, experts are “certain the points were used in projectile weapons, probably arrows but possibly spears.”
As reported by Live Science, these sharp objects may have been attached to handles, thrown javelin-style or shot from a bow. It also appears the barbs were re-sharpened for repeat outings.