Comment on To kill mammoths in the Ice Age, people used planted pikes, not throwing spears, researchers say

tilefan@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Flyberius@hexbear.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m guessing you can do the old trick of lying them flat and then jerking them up at the perfect moment with rope.

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  • tilefan@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    maybe it was a pike wall like in combat

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    • Flyberius@hexbear.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I think what they are getting at is that an animal tends to not want to run into a spear, so I’m thinking there might be some trickery involved such as concealing the spear or rapidly bringing it to bear

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• Frozengyro@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Probably taunt it into running at you

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  • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yo mama was a mastodon!

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  • tilefan@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    but they can see the tree behind you.

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    • Paraponera_clavata@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Tree?

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      • tilefan@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        scroll up?

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