弓箭早在旧石器时代晚期或中石器时代早期就出现了。

The bow seems to have been invented in the late Paleolithic or early Mesolithic periods.

她表示，考古学家发现过一个更早的案例，那是一位中石器时代的女战士，按照男性的方式埋葬。

She said that archeologists had uncovered an earlier case dating from the Mesolithic period where a female warrior was buried as a man.

美国博尔德科罗拉多大学的研究人员仔细检查了这些来自南非布龙·保斯山洞的石器，它们可追溯到中石器时代，有些甚至可追溯到75,000年前。

Researchers from the University of Colorado at Boulder examined stone tools dating from the Middle stone Age, some 75, 000 years ago, from Blombos Cave in what is now South Africa.