This article from the Boston Globe 1997 may be the one I saw.
Sophisticated hunting spears apparently more than 380,000 years old have been found preserved in the peat of a German coal pit, a discovery that could revolutionize scientists’ view of the intelligence and social organization of prehistoric humans.
The three spruce spears — each about 7 feet long and carefully crafted, with a center of gravity that resembles the balance of the best Olympic javelins — are three times older than any complete spear ever found. Close to the spears, in a lignite mine 65 miles east of Hanover, archeologist Hartmut Thieme and colleagues found flint tools, a possible hearth and the bones of more than 10 horses that had been butchered.
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/access/11139305.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Feb+27%2C+1997&author=Peter+J.+Howe%2C+Globe+Staff&pub=Boston+Globe&desc=Spear+discovery+points+to+earlier+origin+of+hunt&pqatl=google
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