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For those who don’t want to sit through the listen, they’re never able to do it. From the interspersed stories, the “run an animal to exhaustion” theory only wo
by mdorazio 2y ago
For those who don’t want to sit through the listen, they’re never able to do it. From the interspersed stories, the “run an animal to exhaustion” theory only works if it’s 1) not an antelope (ex. A deer), 2) the runner is good at tracking, and 3) the runner is able to consistently track the same animal even through multiple herd merges.
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- iamthemonster 2y agoDid they never mention the concept of wounding the animal with a trap or missile weapon first? Of course it's unethical to test that theory but it's surely the first thing you'd think of doing if you actually wanted to catch an animal. Of course it would be devilishly difficult to hit an individual antelope with a missile weapon, but slinging 100 rocks at a herd over time is much less energy than chasing on foot.
- mdorazio 2y agoNope. The experiment is to see if it's possible to run down an animal completely unaided, then capture or kill it. It sounded like they want to duplicate a pre-tool use scenario but I'm personally in the same camp as you - seems a lot more likely that pre-tool hominids would have probably been pretty good at chucking rocks or pointy sticks.
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- chrisco255 2y agoPre-tool hominids is going back over 3 million years ago, maybe much further. Long before homo sapiens even existed.
- defrost 2y agoRocks and pointy sticks are tools, pointy sticks work even better with a woomera or atlatl, and yes, insanely good at chucking stuff ... I went to a primary school that had old guys come in most lunch times to throw spears and other objects with kids at targets up to an (AFL) football field length away. Even with rocks you can hunt smart, throwing rocks and chasing to box them into gullys even they find hard to jump clear of before a pack of kids close in. For general interest: Is this the best spear fisherman in the world? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gmCX7R-W4c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gmCX7R-W4c
- rramadass 2y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41242321 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41242321
- chrisco255 2y agoHere's an 8 hour exhaustion hunt of a kudu, a species of antelope. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=826HMLoiE_o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=826HMLoiE_o