Do these findings from #GrotteMandrin in #France represent the earliest yet known #ProjectilePoints in Eurasia, pushing back #bow-and-#arrow 🏹 technology in Europe back to 54,000 years ago?

L. Metz et al., @ScienceAdvances 9(8), 2023....

Here's a #SundayArchaeology-#SketchbookSunday tea break combo with a nice couple of so-called #HelwanPoints from Göbekli Tepe, SE Turkey - a characteristic type of early #Neolithic Levantine #ProjectilePoints named after the eponymous late Epipaleolithic layers at Helwan, Egypt.