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Redfox8 ,

Makes sense, use the prey’s weight and momentum to do the hard work, rather than the relativly feable arm of a much smaller creature!

FlyingSquid OP ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Many people have a silly idea in their heads that stone-age humans could not be as innovative and smart as we can because their technology was less advanced than ours.

They also look at an expertly-knapped spearhead like the ones in the thumbnail and think they could do that with a couple of rocks they find in their backyard.

These ancestors of ours were smart, they were creative thinkers, they made stone tools at an expert level that the average person today could not even hope to replicate. I love finding out new ways they were able to innovate.

aBundleOfFerrets ,

Modern society has existed in a flash on an evolutionary timescale, it’s likely that our ancient ancestors were exactly as “smart” as we are

WhatAmLemmy ,

If they were so smart how come they’re dead?

aBundleOfFerrets ,

This question backs all of modern archeology

Shard ,

To be fair I can’t fathom the size of balls you need to have, to stand behind a spear while a Mammoth is charging you down.

Phenomephrene ,
@Phenomephrene@thebrainbin.org avatar

I always pictured mammoths being more docile: disinclined to charge. Didn't realize they could be more of a wooly bully.

FlyingSquid OP ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Elephants charge pretty easily, so that part doesn’t surprise me.

RicoBerto ,

Yeah, if your main form of offense/defense is that you are: large, and have massive fuck-off tusks on your front then charging seems to be a pretty good go to.

Phenomephrene ,
@Phenomephrene@thebrainbin.org avatar

I did that thing where I lied on the internet. The preamble was there purely as a setup for the greatest joke of all time.

RandomStickman ,
@RandomStickman@fedia.io avatar

Worth

tetrachromacy ,

Wooly bully?

grue ,

Watch it now, watch it!

RicoBerto ,

Pikes were used much the same way right? Surprised I never put the two together, ancient humans weren’t stupid so of course they’d realize that was a better way of causing harm than just throwing it. Not to mention their use of leverage in weapons like the Atlatl. No clue on the timespan of these things but I do find this stuff interesting.

FlyingSquid OP ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

The Clovis period was around 12,000 years ago in North America.

Transporter_Room_3 ,
@Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website avatar

I’m sure so much of our history is more or less completely unknowable simply because the remains all degraded quickly.

How many things made out of wood that simply rotted away, or burned or any one of a thousand things.

Stone tools were a game changer in every sense.

Peppycito ,

I would posit string being the real game changer. How do you think they got the stone on the end of a stick?

abigscaryhobo ,

Honest answer, usually animal sinew, or certain grasses could be used as well. The nice thing with string, once it was figured out was you could make as much as you could, and make it as long as you wanted.

Peppycito ,

I totally count sinew as string. That probably led to plant string. Think about really fine string, or thread, and think about how many miles of it you carry around on you every day. It’s crazy how taken for granted it is!

Track_Shovel ,
@Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net avatar

I would be surprised if they didn’t use pitfall traps with spikes. That’s how I would take down an elephant

Infynis ,
@Infynis@midwest.social avatar

I believe that’s a tiger trap

AbidanYre ,

I believe you are correct

kindenough ,

It was the first Olympic sport...run from.the Mammoth

RavindraNemandi ,
@RavindraNemandi@ttrpg.network avatar

Isnt this how you would hunt boar too?

hark ,
@hark@lemmy.world avatar

Prehistoric lego.

Num10ck ,

i remember reading how eskimos would wrap sharp bone fragments in balls of fat and leave them for polar bears… then they would follow the bears until they died of internal bleeding.

elephants are much smarter than bears though.

MataVatnik ,
@MataVatnik@lemmy.world avatar

Brutal

fuckwit_mcbumcrumble ,

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJktslo1P2w

taiyang ,

Prehistoric Minecraft Automatic Mob Farm.

Mobilityfuture ,

Fuckin bullshit. I’ve seen the cave paintings - they were throwing those fuckers

Mouselemming ,

How do you think they got the mammoth to run into the trap of spears? Also, in case it turned towards you, you’d want a spear in your hands to make him turn.

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