Such evidence suggests that early humans created throwing spears as early as 500,000 years ago in Africa.

When was the spear first used?

The spear-carrying phalanx, or massed formation of closely ranked men, was used by Sumerian armies as early as 3,000 bc. Two thousand years later the Greeks refined the concept, using pikes 6 to 9 feet (2 to 3 m) long.

Did early humans use spears?

By at least 500,000 years ago, early humans were making wooden spears and using them to kill large animals. Early humans butchered large animals as long as 2.6 million years ago. ... The early humans who made this spear were hunting large animals, probably on a regular basis.