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The spear-thrower enabled early humans to launch spears with greater accuracy and distance than they could achieve by throwing the spear from their hand. This allowed them to hunt animals with greater ease and precision, and from a greater distance.

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To hunt, protection, and war. They mined flint for the spear points.

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