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Also, I reckon if I got hungry enough for meat, I wouldn't care how much went to waste. It would depend on what else they were eating, I would suspect. |
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If you're too hungry to care about what happens to the rest of the food, you're too hungry to hunt. You're better off checking your snares or seeing what you can scrounge up for roots and berries.
Yeah, there have been lots of finds of ceremonial items or tools made from mammoth bits. But a lot of that could have come from windfall rather than hunting. A tusk that's been cracked after a fall over a cliff is a lot less useful than an intact tusk you scavenged off an animal that died of old age. I'm not saying stone-age hunters wouldn't have gone after mammoths for food, but they wouldn't have done it often and they wouldn't have done it by running at the mammoth and hitting it with sticks. I have a friend who was trained to hunt by an old Cree guy, a real old-school hunter. My friend is also an anthropologist. The main thing I learned from his hunting stories and explanations of survival-hunting versus sport-hunting is that when you're hunting for food, it pays to be lazy. Lord carnifex - "That's possible. Mammoth hunts may also have been a bonding exercise during inter-clan or inter-tribal gatherings. Hunting them might be easier with 50 - 100 hunters, and the meat would be divided by the larger group. "The best place to store excess food is in your neighbor's stomach," and all that." That's how the tribes hunted bison. Organizing the hunting parties was a major activity. Your place in the hunt was determined by skill, personal status, tribal status, and religious considerations. Pow-wows weren't just for dancing.
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Though it is not clear why they would have time for status hunts if they were primitive hunter-gatherers. Sherpas never dreamed of trying to get to the top of mountains until told that rich Englishmen of doubtful sanity would pay for their help. Sherpas were not dependent on what they could hunt and thus had less need for unromantic practicality then hypothetical ice-age tribes would have.
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Correct me if i'm wrong, but weren't woomeras indiginous to Australia, and even then only used in the desert regions where long shots were the norm? Is there any evidence of other cultures having that tecnology (usually filled by the bow, a tech that was absent from Australia)?
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