Re: Persistent predators at Schoningen

On 6.10.2024. 18:32, JTEM wrote:

  Mario Petrinovic wrote:

Horse (Equus mosbachensis) remains dominate the assemblage and suggest a recurrent ambush hunting strategy along the margins of the Schöningen paleo-lake.

 I like the ambush hunting but, aren't we talking about throwing
spears?
 I have long argued that throwing spears vanished from the
archaeological record BECAUSE they took to ambush hunting...
 People ambush hunt today. If you look you can even find videos
of them doing it, though not for the squeamish as we are speaking
of videos of hunting.
 I always assumed that they'd just find a watering hole and/or
game trail, sit up high in an overhanging tree limb and then
stab down on the first animal that wanders by. But I have seen
videos wear hunters, modern hunters, lurk in the underbrush &
stab at an animal from there. Effective? Yes. But not so much
when talking about a dangerous animal. A Wild Boar, for
example, would likely have torn their leg apart for havign
stabbed them... and a bear either runs or kills you.

Wild boars are the most dangerous animals. Once, a German natural researcher made a documentary about who is the most fearsome animal in Indian jungle. Tiger takes third spot. A pack of wild dogs takes the catch from tiger, because they are a bunch. So, wild dogs are the second. But wild boars are a bunch with formidable tusks, they scare a pack of dogs away, so they are the first.
Of course, when humans came to Australia they met giant lizards. Scientists agree that humans could fight those lizards only with fire. With fire you can fight every animal, especially animal that has fur. And also, you can feed well by eating piglets which are i nests, by burning those nests. Piglets will remain in the nest, they will not run out.
Here we are talking about Neanderthals. Neanderthals didn't throw spears, they thrust spears.