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Instead of Thrown, Spears Were Planted in the Ground to Kill a Charging Mammoth (www.discovermagazine.com)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Could you just imagine killing an animal that size with a big stick? I'd tell everyone I met, probably multiple times.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago

Everyone you'd met was probably with you at the time. So their response would be, "yeah we know. Shut up about that mammoth already. It's been two weeks and we have to go kill another mammoth."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So if the theory is that spears were planted in the ground rather than thrown, that means there was probably a ton of them in the ground and mammoths were chased into the trap.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Planted in the ground could mean that they were left free standing or that they held the backend against the ground whilst holding onto it still.