example the 300–400,000-year-old Schöningen spears (Figure 11) are evidence of culture among Homo heidelbergensis, perhaps a form of Homo erectus, and show that these humans hunted, that they used brute force rather than throwing and that they dedicated planning to hunting. Thus the spears represent cultural objectives, cultural knowledge, and cultural techniques. To members of the cultures that use them, they are therefore symbolic of these things, especially in light of the wider body of evidence for erectus culture.
