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A collection of 6,500-year-old wooden dart tips found deep within a Texas cave were likely, at one point in their usage, ...

The ancient weapons include notched ends for the darts of a spear thrower, or atlatl; the foreshafts of darts that had stone tips; and the foreshafts of darts that were probably poisoned.

The oldest item found so far, a spear-thrower called an atlatl, was dated to almost 7,000 years old—in a 2023 paper, the researchers suggested it was the oldest one found on the continent.

A boomerang, stone dart components and a spear-throwing device called an atlatl used by ancient humans almost everywhere in the world were found at the West Texas site, along with a folded ...