They warmed up by attacking some giant bison, much larger than any living bison, for a warm-up.
What group of morons actually believe that early man - with only primitive weapons could hunt, kill and carve up those massive beasts for food?
Some wooly mammoth bones have been found which show evidence of cutting as in butchering, not animal predation. I think there's agreement among paleontologists and other scientists that early Man did indeed hunt and kill mammoths, albeit not in a number to threaten their extinction as the article indicates. Anyway, that's the group of morons who believe humans could and did kill mammoths.
Maybe those who know that primitive weapons could be used to take down elephants. Ivory was being shipped out of Africa long before firearms were introduced there.
Or were you being sarcastic?
Cave Man 1: “I got an idea: let’s sharpen some long sticks and try to poke and kill a mammoth? Whose with me?”
Cave Man 2: “ Yeah right...”
Many scientists hold that dogs were domesticated at around the same time.
Now, you have a large prey animal, perhaps backed into a dead end, a few large, wolflike dogs snapping at its feet, holding it at bay, and a tribe of men with spears, etc.
Yeah, I’d say they could feasibly take down a mammoth.
*shrugs* Not a hunter huh? Never messed with snares or traps? The principles remain the same, just extrapolated to larger sizes. I don't see hunting any animal as being particularly daunting Just a matter of the right trap and presentation to turn the odds decidedly in your favor... Then the proper tool to kill it.
I don't think running up and killing it with spears (as usually depicted) was necessarily all there was to that story.
They warmed up by attacking some giant bison, much larger than any living bison, for a warm-up.