Ancient hunters used spears like pikes to make mammoths ‘kill themselves,’ study finds
That led them to propose an alternate use for an artifact found across Clovis-era campsites, a “foreshaft” made of wood or ...
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To kill mammoths in the Ice Age, people used planted pikes, not throwing spears, researchers say
Did they throw spears tipped with carefully crafted ... The intricately designed bone shafts at the end of the weapon are sometimes found, but the wood at the base of the spear and the pine pitch and ...
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How did prehistoric people hunt mammoths? They didn’t throw their spears
Only the stone points themselves can be recovered. However, beyond the stone tip, a Clovis spear also included bone, wood, pine pitch, and lacing that kept everything together. A good Clovis spear ...
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The Primitive Arts: How an Expert Crafts Stone-Age Hunting Tools by Hand
By the time his dad got home from work that evening, Gill was standing over a mound of wood shavings and ... and crafting wooden arrows, spears, and knives tipped with stone points he knaps ...
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Ice Age humans may have used pikes to hunt mammoths
When the tip pierced a chunk of flesh ... the end of the weapons are sometimes found, but often the wood at the base of the spear and pine pitch and latching used to attach the point to the ...
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New study challenges popular beliefs about ancient mammoth hunts
But in 2022, a competing study in the same journal countered that archeological evidence from mammoth bones showed evidence of deep penetration wounds of the sort that Clovis point-tipped spears ...
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Britney Spears disses Sabrina Carpenter’s ‘weird’ VMAs performance: ‘Why is she kissing an alien?’
Britney Spears watched a few clips from this year’s MTV Video Music Awards and revealed she wasn’t a fan of Sabrina Carpenter’s “weird” debut performance. “I didn’t watch the VMAs ...
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Ancient hunters used spears like pikes to make mammoths ‘kill themselves,’ study finds
But in 2022, a competing study in the same journal countered that archeological evidence from mammoth bones showed evidence of deep penetration wounds of the sort that Clovis point-tipped spears ...
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To kill mammoths in the Ice Age, people used planted pikes, not throwing spears, researchers say
Did they throw spears tipped with carefully crafted ... bone shafts at the end of the weapon are sometimes found, but the wood at the base of the spear and the pine pitch and lacing that help ...