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Microscopic analysis of backed lithic pieces from the Uluzzian technocomplex (45–40 thousand yr ago) at Grotta del Cavallo (southern Italy) reveals their use as mechanically delivered projectile weapons, attributed to anatomically modern humans. Use-wear and residue analyses indicate that the lithics were hunting armatures hafted with complex adhesives, while experimental and ethnographic comparisons support their use as projectiles. The use of projectiles conferred a hunting strategy with a higher impact energy and a potential subsistence advantage over other populations and species. Microscopic analysis of backed stone pieces from the Uluzzian technocomplex of Italy (45–40 thousand years ago) identifies them as hafted armatures, probably used as projectiles.

The main asteroid belt is a living relic. It contains a record of what happened to the solar system in terms of bombardment since the planet-formation epoch. Ongoing collisional and dynamical evolution processes, however, are slowly obscuring the traces left behind. The goal of modeling efforts is to use all possible observational data to discern the initial conditions and evolution processes that occurred during and after the planet-formation epoch. For example, the questions one can probe with main-belt constraints include the nature and mass of planetesimals inside Jupiter’s orbit, the timing of Jupiter’s formation, the distribution of volatiles in the

She was sitting on the bed with his gun beside her. “Tammy,” said Lance. As she raised the gun with a trembling hand and pointed it at her temple, he saw that she had something wrapped around her wrist. It took a couple of seconds before he realized she’d kept her daughter’s bloody scarf. “Tammy,” he said again, taking a step into the room. “Don’t move,” she shouted, fear in her voice. Lance froze in midstride and stood still as they stared at each other. Aside from Tammy’s shallow breathing, there wasn’t a sound in the house. “I don’t trust

Although the first description in fiction of an atomic explosion occurs as early as 1895, we associate that subject particularly with the Cold War.¹ Throughout this period novels struggled to give narrative expression to an eventuality which was both dreaded and expected. Most nuclear war novels perform the function of literary jeremiads, warning the reader and the broader public of the dangers within the arms race. Jacques Derrida has argued that ‘nuclear weaponry depends, more than any weaponry in the past, […] upon structures of information, and communication, structures of language.’ He continues: ‘but the phenomenon is also fabulously textual

Substituting alcohol for drugs, Burroughs habitually drank to excess. One evening while drinking at another Roma neighborhood bar—possibly the Ku Ku, which was at the corner of Coahuila and Insurgentes and is mentioned in several of Burroughs’s and Kerouac’s novels—a cop appeared and Burroughs struck up a conversation with him. Suddenly, irked by the man in uniform, Burroughs lost his head, took out a pistol (he never went unarmed while in Mexico City), and pushed it into the policeman’s stomach. From behind the bar, the bartender grabbed the arm of the impetuous American, took away his pistol, and