The weapons from the southern part of the country tend to have a split shape, resembling a fishtail. No spear or arrow tips of this type have been found in São Paulo. “The function of the tips found ...

Blade flakes were "pre-forms" that could be fashioned into knives, hide scrapers, spear ... purpose weapons for hunting large land animals. To be as lethal as possible, their tips were chiseled ...

and even spear throwers in some cases.” Presenting new analyses of the wooden weapons from Clacton-on-Sea, Schöningen, and Lehringen, the study authors determined that the tip cross-section ...