Instead of Thrown, Spears Were Planted in the Ground to Kill a Charging Mammoth - eviltoast
    • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago

      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

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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      3 months ago

      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.