People of ancient Clovis culture could have impaled huge animals on pikes rather than throwing spears, finds study
Capturing megafauna, like woolly mammoths, 13,000 years ago, might have relied on enticing the animals to charge on to sharp pikes driven into the ground.Capturing megafauna, like woolly mammoths, 13,000 years ago, might have relied on enticing the animals to charge on to sharp pikes driven into the ground.When it came to taking down giant animals, prehistoric hunters would quite literally have faced a mammoth task. Now researchers have shed fresh light on how they might have done it.
He added that hunters using pikes often encouraged large game to charge at them, and a planted pike could produce far greater force than a hand-thrust or thrown spear. “It follows that pikes would have been preferred against aggressive megafauna,” he said.the team note that while Clovis points are well known, no intact weapons have been found, so exactly how the points were used is unclear.
To explore the idea that Clovis people could have used their stone points in a similar way, the team conducted experiments using replicas of what they believed the weapons might have looked like, with the stone point held by lashings between a wooden pole and bone rod. Byram added that the shape of certain Clovis points would have made for very effective pike tips, and such an application could explain the discovery of complete Clovis points with unbutchered mammoth remains.
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