Archaeologists from Tel Aviv University in Israel have discovered that prehistoric humans made a leap in development as the big game went extinct. Smaller and more agile hunting forced the ancestors of modern man to develop hunting weapons. To work published in the Quaternary scientific journal.
Dr. According to Miki Ben-Dor, hunting mammoths made it possible to make a living with primitive wooden-tipped spears, because the animal is first driven into a swamp or a pre-dug hole, then injured and expected to die. bleeding. But with the disappearance of the mammoths, this tactic didn’t work. For example, deer struck by a wooden spear often managed to escape from the hunter.
The need for more effective weapons prompted the ancients to create technologies with stone-pointed spikes that increased the chance of killing their prey with one shot. Scientists stated that stone spots appeared in primitive areas at a time that coincided with the extinction of large game animals.
The data show that the average weight of animals hunted by human ancestors 1 million years ago was 3 tons, but then gradually dropped to 50 kg about 20,000 years ago.
In the future, people invented fishing rods, traps and bows, domesticated dogs, then moved on to agriculture and a sedentary lifestyle, taming other animals and plants.
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