Assertion: early human | /r/CapableOf | use wooden spears
Facets:
value: as early
type: TEMPORAL
value: to hunt small animals
type: PURPOSE
value: presumably
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Presumably, early humans used wooden spears as early as 5 million years ago to hunt small animals, much as their relatives, chimpanzees, have been observed to do in Senegal, Africa.
text: Wood does not preserve well, however, and Craig Stanford, a primatologist and professor of anthropology at the University of Southern California, has suggested that the discovery of spear use by chimpanzees probably means that early humans used wooden spears as well, perhaps, five million years ago.