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Instead of Thrown, Spears Were Planted in the Ground to Kill a Charging Mammoth (www.discovermagazine.com)

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[-] Mobilityfuture@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

Fuckin bullshit. I’ve seen the cave paintings - they were throwing those fuckers

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

How do you think they got the mammoth to run into the trap of spears? Also, in case it turned towards you, you'd want a spear in your hands to make him turn.

Edit: judging by the picture in the post, if you couldn't run away, you might jam the back end into the ground beside/behind yourself and hold up the point so at least he'd be wounded when he squashed you