Comment on To kill mammoths in the Ice Age, people used planted pikes, not throwing spears, researchers say
Flyberius@hexbear.net 4 weeks agoI’m guessing you can do the old trick of lying them flat and then jerking them up at the perfect moment with rope.
tilefan@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
maybe it was a pike wall like in combat
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