How the hell could primitive cavemen hunt the massive, powerful mammoths?
>>2085726
by stabbing them to death, or tricking them into running off of cliffs to death, or by getting two of them really pissed off and making them run into each other at full force to death
Mammoths weren't the smartest creatures.
>>2085726
They were most likely almost as intelligent as us and intelligent animals are Far more predictable when it comes to behavior than the unintelligent ones. Practice made a perfect technique they figured out using their weakness as herd animals. We used to be extremely in touch with animal behavior and use it to our Advantage
>>2085726
Strength in numbers. Also, pointy things. Persistence. Patience.
>>2085726
Endurance, perseverance, communication, cooperation, and sticks with sharp rocks on the end.
They used trained hunting brown recluses.
Cavemen weren't primitive - they were just as smart as us. The fact that they lived in freezing, unforgiving conditions and still managed to invent stuff like fire, weapons, housing, etc AND being able to raise children AND still having time left to paint what they saw and felt speaks loud.
That said, as they lived as hunter gatherers their style of hunting would be very different - they wouldn't care about clean kills or if they accidentally killed more than they needed.
>>2085726
They hunted in groups. They used modular disposable spear foreshafts so they could stab an animal over and over again with the same spear and not worry about losing it. They also likely used fire and land features to chase game into ambushes. Chase the Oliphant up a mountain towards a waiting pack of hunters on the ridge top.
>>2085732
>They were most likely almost as intelligent as us
>>2085726
A mammoth's size and strength is rendered meaningless if it's just been tricked into running off a cliff to it's death.
Its romanticism - there's no way to actually know if they did or not.
>>2085811
>there's no way to actually know if they did or not.
err, we have fossils with spear scars and marks where flesh was stripped from bone
>>2085821
watch this faggot say that they were all inflicted postmortem/from scavenging
THEN watch them say "hurr bdur u think they strip flesh from bone by huntign?!" in response to this
>>2085841
You are talking about the early flint-knapping hominins. Those are believed to have used their tools for getting marrow from carcasses that had already gotten scavanged by stronger scavangers.
As for the palaeolithic Clovis culture, about which many in this thread seem to be talking, it's well known that they made sophisticated spears and hunting techniques in order to fell megafauna.
>>2085798
it's not really a fair comparison.
they were almost certainly smarter than us.
Just based on the quality of their tools it's fair to say they were also smarter than all of their descendants.
>>2085852
The OP of that particular comment was referring to the giant hairy elefontes
>>2085858
oh.
in that case, yes. Mammoths were about as smart as that anon.
>>2085726
Woolly mammoths , which were present across Eurasia and North America during the Pleistocene, we're only slightly larger than living Asian elephants, and actually somewhat smaller than African elephants, so a tribe of hunters armed with spears or bows could feasibly take one down. North American mastodons were about the same size as Asian elephants and were primarily forest dwellers (as opposed to grassland loving mammoths), so ambush tactics would work splendidly. Columbian mammoths were quite gigantic, so they were probably herded off cliffs.
Why is it always the mammoths? What about mastodons?
numbers and positioning
>>2085858
>hairy elefontes
I see what you did there.
>>2085932
those are basically wooly mammoth
>>2086155
Actually, mastodons and woolly mammoths aren't very closely related at all
>>2086506
about as closely related as chimps and humans.
They used trained rinosouruses
>tfw wholly mammoths didn't die out until AFTER the pyramids were built
I didn't even believe it until I looked it up
>>2085726
The same way they hunt elephants. Automatic machine gun fire.
>>2086578
They (mammoths), voted democratic.
>>2085726
They stood on a chair.
Fire, sharp sticks, and organization.
>>2087257
>mfw I look it up and it isn't bullshit
>>2087257
Actually it was recently discovered that at least one species of mamoth walked the earth when christ lived.
>>2087702
What if Christ WAS the last mammoth?
Balls of obsidian!
>>2085739
Laughed more than I should have
Play Farcry Primal and figure it out on your own
>>2085739
>>2085726
well there isnt much evidence we hunted mammoths so we probably went for easier game
>>2089619
>there isnt much evidence we hunted mammoths
said no archaeologist ever
>>2089620
> one speared
yeah we killed some but it wasnt out main target
>>2089625
Like this - easily!
http://guggy.com/Jimbo_mcGuggster/easily
I actually studies archaeology, cavemen were very smart. The worked together, they were very skilled, and they had the smarts to stay away form the bigger beasts.
>>2085726
Well for starters they weren't weaklings like ourselves
>>2089546
Ubisoft pls go
>>2085729
>>2085747
The current line of thought amongst neuroscientists is that our brains have actually done quite of bit of cognitive fine-tuning over the past 10,000 years to the point that Paleolithic man was likely significantly less intelligent than modern man. Seriously go check it out it's really interesting stuff.
https://youtu.be/h_oGuUA2hgE
>>2087713
>>2085841
Says the imbecile ignoring countless studies showcasing why it isn't post-mortem scavenging.
>>2087713
>mammoth
>messiah
>m-----h
Coincidence?
>>2085726
by using good tactics, numbers, and weapons!
>>2085726
they killed them with lazor weapons
>>2093505
This
It's like ants attacking larger insects. Team work, intelligence, weapons.
The same way men in sandals and robes take out fucking Abrams tanks.
I have no fucking idea.
By cheesing it from a distant with spears I guess. I doubt they cared about bruised meat back then, so why not?
The fiercest serpent can be overcome by a swarm of ants.
>>2085726
Very carefully.
>>2087713
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