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Middle Pleistocene ‘hunting lesions’: experimental approaches to an archaeological puzzle (2016)
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Hunting lesions provide indirect evidence of humans using weapons for subsistence. Potential examples of hunting lesions from the European Middle Pleistocene are limited, having been proposed for one scapula each from the British sites of Boxgrove and Swanscombe. These scapulae, both bearing semi-circular damaged edges, have been suggested to have been impacted by untipped wooden spears, similar to those from the Middle Pleistocene sites of Schöningen and Clacton-on-Sea. Plain wooden spears from...