Awwwww. Danny Kruger is upset? Fucking good. They should tell him theyâve changed their minds, and the tunnel can go ahead after all, just so they can piss him off even more by cancelling it again.
The article doesnât mention a related hunting method that always seemed plausible to me, that being the pit trap with sharpened stakes at the bottom.
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That sounds like a lot of digging for a mammoth.
In theory you can also use a pre-existing drop.
Neither seem like they would actually involve Clovis points though, which are clearly for something like spears or pikes instead of stakes.
Itâs a lot of meat. Given the weight of a mammoth, it probably wouldnât be necessary to dig a pit large enough for the whole animal, just enough to trip it onto the spikes.
It depends on mammoth behaviour. They may have been more inclined to charge than to stampede like bison.
One can hypothesize a hybrid method, in which clovis-headed darts and atlatls were used to get a mammoth or mammoths moving toward a pit or cliff. Fences would be built to channel the animals in the desired direction (this was done in the case of bison hunts).
True, but you can do it while the mammoth isnât there, and everybody can help without endangering themselves.
Though mammoth hunting predates the shovel.
Submitted for your consideration, the deer scapula. See also antler picks.
If stone age people could raise huge mounds and barrows, they could dig a simple little mammoth hole.
Elk pit in Norway:
Yep. About 9,000 years ago. Much more recently in North America. Mammoth hunting older.
Itâd be interesting to know how they handled all that. Gorge themselves, invite other groups for a feast, cooking and preservation methods, stew potsâŠ?
Maybe all of the above. Smoking and drying would have been known, possibly they knew how to make pemmican.
âAs no group of humans could consume so much meat while it was fresh, there would have been a need to preserve some of the kill for a later time. Archeological evidence suggests humans weighted mammoth meat and submerged it in cool ponds, where it would stay somewhat fresh. Later, the earliest food technologiesâsmoking, drying and saltingâemerged to protect similar meaty bounties. From such hunting, we developed the first really critical culinary skill after fire: leftovers.â
âLeftovers: How Civilization Was Foundedâ
Iâm reading about ancient hunting and preserving techniquesâŠand wondering when modern humans will successfully pull off a major feral hog barbecue:
There is also the Hawaiian way of cooking pigâŠ
Forgive the haole passing on the infoâŠ
