Instead of Thrown, Spears Were Planted in the Ground to Kill a Charging Mammoth - eviltoast
Researchers recreate Ice Age hunting techniques to show that spears were probably braced against the ground rather than thrown at massive mammoths.
  • Tiptopit@feddit.org
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    3 months ago

    This is probably how you hunt nearly everything which is faster than you as long as you don’t have the means to kill it with one shot.

    • RavindraNemandi@ttrpg.network
      3·
      3 months ago

      You might be right, but i think it also has to do with the charging behavior of those animals. The plant a spear strat seems less effective if your prey is better able to change directions.

      • Tiptopit@feddit.org
        2·
        3 months ago

        Yes, but for prey which changes directions the tactics are not so different. You work as a group, drive them to a cliff and this is their end.