Editing Weapon (section)

=== Prehistoric ===
[[File:Néolithique 0001.jpg|thumb|An array of [[Neolithic]] artifacts, including [[bracelet]]s, [[axe]] heads, [[chisel]]s, and polishing tools.]]
The use of objects as weapons has been observed among [[Common Chimpanzee|chimpanzees]],<ref name=Pruetz1>{{Cite journal |doi=10.1016/j.cub.2006.12.042 |title=Savanna Chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes verus, Hunt with Tools |journal=Current Biology |volume=17 |issue=5 |pages=412–417 |year=2007 |last1=Pruetz |first1=J.D. |last2=Bertolani |first2=P. |pmid=17320393|s2cid=16551874 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2007CBio...17..412P }}</ref> leading to speculation that early [[hominids]] used weapons as early as five million years ago.<ref>Weiss, Rick (February 22, 2007) [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/22/AR2007022201007.html "Chimps Observed Making Their Own Weapons"], ''[[The Washington Post]]''</ref> However, this cannot be confirmed using physical evidence because wooden clubs, spears, and unshaped stones would have left an ambiguous record. The earliest unambiguous weapons to be found are the [[Schöningen spears]], eight wooden throwing spears dating back more than 300,000 years.<ref>Thieme, Hartmut and Maier, Reinhard (eds.) (1995) ''Archäologische Ausgrabungen im Braunkohlentagebau Schöningen.'' Landkreis Helmstedt, Hannover.</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=Thieme, Hartmut |title=Die ältesten Speere der Welt – Fundplätze der frühen Altsteinzeit im Tagebau Schöningen |journal=Archäologisches Nachrichtenblatt |volume=10 |year=2005 |pages=409–17}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=Baales, Michael |author2=Jöris, Olaf |title=Zur Altersstellung der Schöninger Speere |journal=Erkenntnisjäger: Kultur und Umwelt des Frühen Menschen Veröffentlichungen des Landesamtes für Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt |volume=57 |year=2003 |pages=281–88}}</ref><ref>Jöris, O. (2005) "Aus einer anderen Welt – Europa zur Zeit des Neandertalers". In: N.J. Conard ''et al.'' (eds.): ''Vom Neandertaler zum modernen Menschen''. Ausstellungskatalog Blaubeuren. pp. 47–70.</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |doi=10.1038/385807a0 |title=Lower Palaeolithic hunting spears from Germany |journal=Nature |volume=385 |issue=6619 |pages=807–10 |year=1997 |last1=Thieme |first1=H. |pmid=9039910|bibcode=1997Natur.385..807T |s2cid=4283393 }}</ref> At the site of Nataruk in Turkana, Kenya, numerous human skeletons dating to 10,000 years ago may present evidence of traumatic injuries to the head, neck, ribs, knees, and hands, including [[obsidian]] projectiles embedded in the bones that might have been caused by arrows and clubs during conflict between two hunter-gatherer groups.<ref>{{Cite journal |title=Inter-group violence among early Holocene hunter-gatherers of West Turkana, Kenya |journal=Nature |pages=394–398 |volume=529 |issue=7586 |doi=10.1038/nature16477 |first1=M. Mirazón |last1=Lahr |first2=F. |last2=Rivera |first3=R.K. |last3=Power |first4=A. |last4=Mounier |first5=B. |last5=Copsey |first6=F. |last6=Crivellaro |first7=J.E. |last7=Edung |first8=J.M. Maillo |last8=Fernandez |first9=C. |last9=Kiarie |pmid=26791728 |year=2016|bibcode=2016Natur.529..394L |s2cid=4462435 |url=https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/253726 }}</ref> But the interpretation of warfare at Nataruk has been challenged due to conflicting evidence.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Stojanowski |first1=Christopher M. |last2=Seidel |first2=Andrew C. |last3=Fulginiti |first3=Laura C. |last4=Johnson |first4=Kent M. |last5=Buikstra |first5=Jane E. |title=Contesting the massacre at Nataruk |journal=Nature |volume=539 |issue=7630 |doi=10.1038/nature19778 |pmid=27882979 |pages=E8–E10|year=2016 |s2cid=205250945 }}</ref>