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.

Archaeologists at Big Bend National Park made a fascinating discovery of possibly the oldest ancient weapons in ... foreshafts and partial atlatl or spear-thrower, according to TPWD.

By Livia Albeck-Ripka The 6,500-year-old hunting kit contained pieces of a spear thrower and a boomerang ... shed light on the complex ways in which ancient humans hunted for their prey and ...

BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, Texas — Archaeologists exploring deep inside a remote cave in Big Bend were flabbergasted to discover tools left by an ancient ... a partial spear thrower and four ...