Lucinda Backwell

"According to this discovery, the oldest bows and bone arrows are now dated to just over 60 000 years old,”"

"These sites provide clues to the behaviour of early humans. The people who lived here were of the Homo sapiens species and there are signs that they lived as hunters as opposed to scavengers, as may have been the case with other human species such as Homo erectus and Homo ergaster."

"The structure of the human body, with its rotating hips and shoulders, enabled humans to use the throwing skill to great effect. It was only a matter of time before the early hurled objects began to take on the shapes of darts and arrows, followed at a later stage by the manufacture of arrowheads made from bone"