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.
Brutal
I mean, we wiped out mastodons completely: Humans can be like that sometimes.
I thought Twitter/X was the one being wiped out, not Mastadon
Wrong era.
We go hard on Earth.
Does Earth fuck with the war?
Elephants (and mammoths probably) are also herbivores that chew their food. Sometimes that food is a whole tree. Using the polar bear sharp bone strategy would be like feeding a razor blade to a wood chipper.
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.
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.
Flexing your muscle also traps the little bastards.
Lmao
that is such a grimy way to hunt lol. basically poisoning without the risk eating the meat
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
Maybe people shouldn’t be living there if they can’t survive without poisoning their prey
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!
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.
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
If they were so smart how come they’re dead?
This question backs all of modern archeology
I’ve asked the same thing for years about Leonardo Da Vinci for years.
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.
Could you just imagine killing an animal that size with a big stick? I’d tell everyone I met, probably multiple times.
Everyone you’d met was probably with you at the time. So their response would be, “yeah we know. Shut up about that mammoth already. It’s been two weeks and we have to go kill another mammoth.”
So if the theory is that spears were planted in the ground rather than thrown, that means there was probably a ton of them in the ground and mammoths were chased into the trap.
Planted in the ground could mean that they were left free standing or that they held the backend against the ground whilst holding onto it still.
Fuckin bullshit. I’ve seen the cave paintings - they were throwing those fuckers
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.
Edit: judging by the picture in the post, if you couldn’t run away, you might jam the back end into the ground beside/behind yourself and hold up the point so at least he’d be wounded when he squashed you
You’re all wrong. It was a, “Mr. Mastodon, you dropped your spears!” situation.
As far as I know, the Clovis people did not make cave paintings and the people who did make cave paintings didn’t hunt mammoths.
Reallllyyy. That’s pretty interesting.
Is this the Mandela effect here? Are not all of the cave paintings and cave drawings I’ve ever seen ones of cave peoples throwing spears at wooly mammoths? Have we been Swiftboated by cave people? Stolen cave valor?
Prehistoric lego.
Prehistoric Minecraft Automatic Mob Farm.
Well yes, obviously.
