Comment on To kill mammoths in the Ice Age, people used planted pikes, not throwing spears, researchers say
intensely_human@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
That makes sense honestly. I can’t imagine developing enough power even with an atlatl to sink a javelin deep enough to kill a mammoth.
MorallyCoffee@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
That was always my thought when looking at those points: “How exactly did a person throw that through the skin of an elephant?”