Communick News
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
Flying Squid@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.world · 9 months ago

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

www.discovermagazine.com

external-link
message-square
66
fedilink
264
external-link

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

www.discovermagazine.com

Flying Squid@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.world · 9 months ago
message-square
66
fedilink
Researchers recreate Ice Age hunting techniques to show that spears were probably braced against the ground rather than thrown at massive mammoths.
  • Num10ck@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    71
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    9 months ago

    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.

    • MataVatnik@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      24
      ·
      9 months ago

      Brutal

      • DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        11
        ·
        9 months ago

        I mean, we wiped out mastodons completely: Humans can be like that sometimes.

        • knexcar@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          7
          ·
          9 months ago

          I thought Twitter/X was the one being wiped out, not Mastadon

          • DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            3
            ·
            9 months ago

            Wrong era.

        • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          4
          ·
          9 months ago

          We go hard on Earth.

          • DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            3
            ·
            9 months ago

            Does Earth fuck with the war?

      • nocturne@sopuli.xyz
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        9 months ago

    • JackFrostNCola@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      11
      ·
      9 months ago

      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.

      • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        8
        ·
        9 months ago

        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.

        • shalafi@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          9 months ago

          Flexing your muscle also traps the little bastards.

          • DJDarren@thelemmy.club
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            9 months ago

            Alright, check out Muscles Georg over here, with all his muscles!

        • EleventhHour@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          9 months ago

          Lmao

    • Wolf314159@startrek.website
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      11
      ·
      9 months ago

      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.

    • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      9 months ago

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJktslo1P2w

    • 4lan@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      9 months ago

      that is such a grimy way to hunt lol. basically poisoning without the risk eating the meat

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        5
        ·
        9 months ago

        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

        • 4lan@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          arrow-down
          3
          ·
          9 months ago

          Maybe people shouldn’t be living there if they can’t survive without poisoning their prey

          • Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            1
            arrow-down
            1
            ·
            9 months ago

            Wow, please tell me you’re trolling

            • 4lan@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              1
              ·
              edit-2
              9 months ago

              The same reason people shouldn’t be living in Arizona and expecting other states to divert their water to them. There is no water there you shouldn’t live there. No one is forcing anyone to live there

              Just live in a habitable climate there are so many. Just live in a biome with plentiful game, there are many

              • Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone
                link
                fedilink
                arrow-up
                1
                ·
                9 months ago

                The Inuit/Eskimos are some of the more self-sustaining peoples on the planet. They don’t depend much on imports from elsewhere, at least not to my knowledge. They had to figure out many adaptations for the area but they make it work and have done so for a long time.

                To compare them with a city representing the pinnacle of mankind’s hubris is a bit of a reach imo

science@lemmy.world

science@lemmy.world

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !science@lemmy.world

A community to post scientific articles, news, and civil discussion.

rule #1: be kind

Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 282 users / day
  • 1.48K users / week
  • 3.13K users / month
  • 9.62K users / 6 months
  • 3 local subscribers
  • 18.5K subscribers
  • 1.87K Posts
  • 16.8K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • m3t00🌎@lemmy.world
  • laverabe@lemmy.world
  • DeadPand@midwest.social
  • Joleee@lemmy.world
  • laverabe@lemmy.zip
  • BE: 0.19.9
  • Modlog
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org