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science@lemmy.world · 11 months ago

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

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

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science@lemmy.world · 11 months ago

Researchers recreate Ice Age hunting techniques to show that spears were probably braced against the ground rather than thrown at massive mammoths.

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If they were so smart how come they’re dead?
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  This question backs all of modern archeology
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  I’ve asked the same thing for years about Leonardo Da Vinci for years.

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