Hafted Stone-Point Spears
Stone points hafted to spear shafts, forming early multicomponent hunting tools.
Core metadata
- ID: composite_tools
- Era: Ancient
- First known date: -500000 (millennium)
- Region: Kathu Pan 1, Northern Cape, South Africa
- Review status: source_checked
- Maturity: established
Prerequisites
Dependents
- Advanced Hunting & Gathering (advanced_hunting_gathering)
- Agriculture (agriculture)
- Atlatl (atlatl)
- Early Boats (early_boats)
- Gastraphetes (Belly-Bow) (gastraphetes_belly_bow)
Fields
- None.
Node sources
- Evidence for Early Hafted Hunting Technology (Science, 2012, primary_paper) • Supports: node, edge, maturity
Prerequisite edge evidence
Edge/source evidence summary:
- Prerequisite edges: 1
- Average edge confidence: 86%
- Prerequisite sources: 1
- primary_source: 1
| Prerequisite | Type | Confidence | Evidence level | Note | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stone Tool Making (stone_tool_making) | required | 86% | primary_source | The KP1 claim is specifically about stone points manufactured as spear tips, so stone-tool production is the direct material prerequisite for this scoped composite-tool node. |
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