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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

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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
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Researchers recreate Ice Age hunting techniques to show that spears were probably braced against the ground rather than thrown at massive mammoths.
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    We do know a lot more about mammoths though, because they have been found frozen in good condition in Siberia.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuka_(mammoth)

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      There were some cave lions found several years ago, too. Cubs.

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