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Whaling scene found in 3,000-year-old picture[Russian Arctic]
Nature News | 31 Mar 2008 | Alexandra Witze
Posted on 03/31/2008 6:16:51 PM PDT by BGHater
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1994797/posts

3,000-Year-Old Ivory Carving Depicts Whaling Scene
Daily India - ANI | 4-1-2008
Posted on 04/02/2008 12:46:19 PM EDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1995549/posts

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Trade in mammoth ivory, helped by global thaw, flourishes in Russia
IHT | 25 Mar 2008 | Andrew E. Kramer
Posted on 03/26/2008 8:00:22 PM EDT by BGHater
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1992161/posts

[sinanju]

I do wish they’d gone more into the technical details. Were they referring to the standard tactics of detachable, slate-bladed harpoon heads attached to inflated sealskin floats? To exhaust the whale then lance it repeatedly when it slowed down? Or the mysterious poisoned whaling dart flung from an atlatl throwing board? Then (hopefully) finding the whale when it died and decayed sufficiently to float to the surface?

The loss rate must have been enormous in those long-ago days.