Re: Persistent predators at Schoningen

On 6.10.2024. 20:15, JTEM wrote:

I think the belief is that we're speaking of Heidelberg Man here, and
the spears are described as throwing spears.

I believe that the latest research says that H.heidelbergensis is ancestor of Neandterthals, and not of H.sapiens. It had large brain, so a lot of those stupid scientists really *wanted* that he would be the ancestor of H.sapiens, but this was just a wishful thinking, and the product of wrong preconceptions, nothing more.
Of course, things are, probably, much more complex, but we can safely group H.Heidelbergensis and Neanderthals together, and exclude H.sapiens from this grouping.
The search of the document for the words "throw" or "thrust" gives only one sentence: "The final death blows likely came at close range with spears thrown over a short distance or with thrusting spears."