RE: The dawn of civilization
December 14, 2018 at 4:06 pm
(This post was last modified: December 14, 2018 at 4:25 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Then there's the issue of how agrarian settlement actually didn't make us softer at all. It made us hard, hard motherfuckers, lol. It's alot of work.
So...more somewhat obscure facts.
In our minds, stone age people were largely encounter hunters...but judging by the taxonomy of their midden heaps...they were more likely trappers who engaged in opportunistic encounters. We can only judge that by trash profile because snares and baskets don't preserve as well as points do.
Taking down something like a mammoth took alot more coordination...and judging from puncture wounds on the vertebrae of those fossils we have..we can say with certainty that it was an execution at range, with the help of atlatls and points designed to cause immense blood loss (serrated clovis are the case example here). Apparently..we mostly hunted the males, too...perhaps due to a solitary habit on their part.
We picked an animal alone..and from height and with distance and great numbers, wounded it so that it bleed out by volley fire. We then processed the meat on site. That's not bravery...it's downright clinical efficiency, lol. Neanderthals...we think..may have tried to go all cqc on a mammoth...but if they did they were far more suited for that kind of nonsense than we are - and look where it got them.
So...more somewhat obscure facts.
In our minds, stone age people were largely encounter hunters...but judging by the taxonomy of their midden heaps...they were more likely trappers who engaged in opportunistic encounters. We can only judge that by trash profile because snares and baskets don't preserve as well as points do.
Taking down something like a mammoth took alot more coordination...and judging from puncture wounds on the vertebrae of those fossils we have..we can say with certainty that it was an execution at range, with the help of atlatls and points designed to cause immense blood loss (serrated clovis are the case example here). Apparently..we mostly hunted the males, too...perhaps due to a solitary habit on their part.
We picked an animal alone..and from height and with distance and great numbers, wounded it so that it bleed out by volley fire. We then processed the meat on site. That's not bravery...it's downright clinical efficiency, lol. Neanderthals...we think..may have tried to go all cqc on a mammoth...but if they did they were far more suited for that kind of nonsense than we are - and look where it got them.
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