How Did Ancient Humans Hunt

The hunt started the night before. Around the fire, the hunters talked through what they knew. This is the real story of how ancient humans hunted, backed by the archaeological record, the skeletal evidence, and what we can observe in the last remaining hunter-gatherer communities on Earth. This video covers persistence hunting and why the human body was designed for it (Carrier and Bramble Nature 2004), ambush hunting and the reading of choke points, drive hunting at Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump and the Solutrean sites in France, the 2020 PLOS One study finding roughly 40% of big-game hunters buried with tools were female, the weapon technology timeline from stone-tipped spears at 500,000 years ago through atlatl at 30,000 years to bow and arrow at 70,000 to 20,000 years, and the knowledge system that made hunting possible and why losing the elder meant losing the library. #ancienthumans #hunting #prehistoric #persistencehunting #huntergatherer #ancienthistory #humanevolution ##howdidancienthumanshun #ancientsurvival #stonagelife #palaeolithic #explainedthis #ancienthunting #driveHunting #ambushhunting #atlatl #ancienttechnology #humanancestors #how #hunting #ancient