Annemieke Milks

Annemieke Milks

Jun 09, 2016

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Success!

Wow - already reached the goal! Thanks so much to the backers of this experiment, I'm so grateful for your support. I will post here soon with some more lab notes, and some stretch goals with any additional donations that are made. With science funding massively down in both the UK and the USA, raising funds for research through crowdfunding is a really promising way of supporting us. Thanks again to all who have supported and promoted! 

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  • ShirleyCWest
    ShirleyCWest
    Good job you have done here!
    Mar 31, 2019
  • Marianne Kuiper Milks
    Marianne Kuiper MilksBacker
    Congratulations, Annemieke! We hope your 'stretch' will reach further into your research, and the publications of its findings. Best of luck!
    Jun 15, 2016

About This Project

This interdisciplinary project looks at how the earliest weapons were used. Plain wooden spears have been found in Europe, with the earliest example dating to around 400,000 years. Though found alongside butchered animals it's unclear if they were designed as thrusted or thrown hunting spears or for self-defence against big cats. I will test replicas in a ballistics lab to evaluate effectiveness as hand-thrown hunting spears, helping understand key questions about behaviors in human evolution.

Blast off!

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