(December 14, 2018 at 4:56 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: Yeah, pretty much. I think it's the grandeur of the idea of hunting a mammoth (absent an understanding of how it was actually done) that leads us to imagine things about those people and how they lived their lives. On the one hand there's the scene of a guy with a spear facing down a monster...and on the other, chewing on some squirrel he killed with a deadfall.
We like to fantasize about the former even though the latter was more reliable (and with the end of the megafauna one of the only games in town). Even the business of hunting those mammoths was more like a mobile slaughterhouse than stalking some aloof and dangerous beast.
(December 14, 2018 at 4:42 pm)T0 Th3 M4X Wrote: They didn't have sticks and stones? They didn't have reeds and various plant life to build things like netting? Even animal carcasses can be used to build fibrous materials to build things like traps. You don't need Walmart and Dick's Sporting Goods. You don't need anything beyond what nature has to offer. You just need to turn on the light bulb in your head and make something work. Less time with the "I can'ts" and more time with the "I cans." But that's me. You be who you are, and I guess as long as you're happy, then more power to ya.A hand axe -is- a stone..........a piece of stone...about the size......of your mouse.
You gonna net a lion with your tree bark caster? Honestly, you just keep getting more and more ridiculous. If you want to kill a lion, go buy a big fuckin gun and do it from a helicopter. That's what uncle Ogg would have done, given the choice. Uncle Ogg would have dropped to his knees and cried at the sight of Dicks. If you were footing the bill for the thigs he told you he needed, on those shelves, -you'd need- a long..long line of credit.
You have a man fantasy.
You're never hunted a mammoth, or an elephant, and I'm guessing you know squat about it. Even a modern day bull elephant is limited with how much it will challenge a human. More times than not, it will try to bluff you so that you will go away. If you do exactly what it's doing back, which is make a bunch of noise at it, it will be the one to leave. If someone was hunting it, it was more than likely trying to get away, and hit with spears as it bled to death.
Also, I don't need to "net a lion", but I could build a trap for one is probably about 30-45 minute max with no fancy tools needed. Would just need a good spot to set it up and an animal carcass as bait.
It's not me being "ridiculous", it's you not understand that there are actually people who go out there and do great things. Not even to impress anybody, but because that's who they are. If you're not, then be someone else, but don't expect others to be afraid to embrace the hunt because you would rather sit in a hut wrapped in a warm blankie.
