Projectile points (IMAGE)

Arizona State University

Projectile points

Caption

Projectile points from a Middle Stone Age archaeological site, Shinfa-Metema 1, in the lowlands of northwest Ethiopian dating from the time of the Toba supereruption at 74,000 years ago provide evidence for bow and arrow use prior to the dispersal of modern humans out of Africa.

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Photograph by Blue Nile Survey Project.

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