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Throwing behaviour and the mass distribution of geological hand samples, hand grenades and Olduvian manuports

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Stockpiling rocks as weapons may have preceded sculpting them into tools.

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  1. 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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