PREHISTORIC WEAPONS
The enemy attacks! Full-blown battles were fought at the time of the Tollund Man. More illustrations. © Niels Bach Among the earliest and most widespread of man’s weapons is the spear. Originally it was merely a wooden pole with one end sharpened with a stone or piece of bone, but once palaeolithic man had discovered fire, some 500,000 years ago,…
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