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Instead of Thrown, Spears Were Planted in the Ground to Kill a Charging Mammoth (www.discovermagazine.com)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So if the theory is that spears were planted in the ground rather than thrown, that means there was probably a ton of them in the ground and mammoths were chased into the trap.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Planted in the ground could mean that they were left free standing or that they held the backend against the ground whilst holding onto it still.