"In the hands of a capable Ice Age hunter, this simple stick could be used to nail small mammals, or even assist in taking deer and horses.
It is supposed that the four-foot-long projectile could be hurled at beasts grazing up to 30 meters away, and with a point at either end, was twice as likely to do damage as a single-pointed dart.
It was dug up at the Schoeningen Palaeolithic site complex in Lower Saxony, a coal-mining area that has yielded a number of archaeological discoveries since the 1990s. Produced by early humans known as the ‘Heidelberg People,’ the skillful woodwork techniques show how they may have been more sophisticated and intelligent than previously thought."
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