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tazai123 t1_iuqonpd wrote

Reply to comment by paulusmagintie in Nice Catch! by westondeboer

I’m sorry but I really cannot explain it to you adequately, nor do I have the patience to do so. However, I would highly recommend reading into it! A lot of people assume that persistence hunting was something humans regularly engaged in and had high success with even though it’s really only hypotheses. Such is not the case.

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paulusmagintie t1_iuqp749 wrote

Im gonna make this simple since you gave me a "fuck you" answer.

We had to chase on foot, we had pointy sticks (eventually as we where not born with the knowledge to make them) and we are still here as a species so what we did must have worked.

Since you have no evidence other than (not sure it happened on the regular) suggests it did happen some times AND it doesn't explain how we hunted without weapons.

So imma stick with video evidence rather than a couple studies without evidence because they cannot find evidence of people running (not suprising really).

Also hunters likely had to chase prey to corner it before throwing spears or chase a wounded animal, so yes chasing would have been a large part of hunting, like treking through a forest looking for something to shoot.

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KingoftheMongoose t1_iur2av7 wrote

Downvotes for you all for this pointless argument!

Pushes both y'all off tree platform

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tazai123 t1_iuqpeca wrote

Not sure how you got that out of my answer. I openly stated that I am incapable of telling it to you properly and that I lack the proper patience to do so. I was just suggesting that you look into it because I find it pretty interesting, and I feel that most people have some misconceptions on the topic. Cheers though.

Edit: Let me be clear I’m not saying persistence hunting is not real. I’m just saying that the idea most people get of simply running behind an animal for a long time is not exactly the right idea.

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lipp79 t1_iuspvmw wrote

I mean you're the one making the claim but telling someone else to provide your evidence. You should be the one backing up your claim and not just saying "I don't have the patience so you do my research".

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KingoftheMongoose t1_iur2c6l wrote

Downvotes for you all for this pointless argument!

Pushes both y'all off tree platform

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