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Flying Squid to science@lemmy.world • 9 months ago

Instead of Thrown, Spears Were Planted in the Ground to Kill a Charging Mammoth

www.discovermagazine.com

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Instead of Thrown, Spears Were Planted in the Ground to Kill a Charging Mammoth

www.discovermagazine.com

Flying Squid to science@lemmy.world • 9 months ago
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Researchers recreate Ice Age hunting techniques to show that spears were probably braced against the ground rather than thrown at massive mammoths.
  • @Num10ck@lemmy.world
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    55•9 months ago

    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@lemmy.world
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      19•9 months ago

      Brutal

      • @DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works
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        10•9 months ago

        I mean, we wiped out mastodons completely: Humans can be like that sometimes.

        • @knexcar@lemmy.world
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          6•9 months ago

          I thought Twitter/X was the one being wiped out, not Mastadon

          • @DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works
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            3•9 months ago

            Wrong era.

        • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】
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          4•9 months ago

          We go hard on Earth.

          • @DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works
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            3•9 months ago

            Does Earth fuck with the war?

      • nocturne
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        2•9 months ago

    • JackFrostNCola
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      11•9 months ago

      Isnt there a similar thing where they put a blood soaked knife in the snow blade up and a wild wolf will come and lick the blood off, cutting their tongue on the blade and keep lapping at it not realising its their blood until they pass out.

      • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】
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        8•9 months ago

        That reminds me of how when there is a mosquito in your arm you can pinch the skin around it, trapping its sucker in your skin and at the same time violently blasting your blood into the mosquito until it’s too fat to fly.

        • @shalafi@lemmy.world
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          2•9 months ago

          Flexing your muscle also traps the little bastards.

          • @DJDarren@thelemmy.club
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            1•9 months ago

            Alright, check out Muscles Georg over here, with all his muscles!

        • EleventhHour
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          1•9 months ago

          Lmao

    • @fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2•9 months ago

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJktslo1P2w

    • @4lan@lemmy.world
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      1•9 months ago

      that is such a grimy way to hunt lol. basically poisoning without the risk eating the meat

      • @captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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        5•9 months ago

        It’s the arctic and a polar bear. Is it fair? Well it’s about as fair as fishing. And if they don’t do either they’ll see how fair starving on a block of ice is

        • @4lan@lemmy.world
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          -2•9 months ago

          Maybe people shouldn’t be living there if they can’t survive without poisoning their prey

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