Stockpiling rocks as weapons may have preceded sculpting them into tools.
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Cannell, A. Throwing behaviour and the mass distribution of geological hand samples, hand grenades and Olduvian manuports. Journal of Archaeological Science 29, 335 - 339 (2002).
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Throwing behaviour and the mass distribution of geological hand samples, hand grenades and Olduvian manuports. Nature (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/news020617-10
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