Desert Secret Cracked: Ancient Hunting Techniques Revealed

Arutz Sheva ^ | 3-3-09 | Baruch Gordon

[The Great RJ]

Ancient native people in North America also used a similar technique called buffalo jumps...bison herds would be driven over a hidden cliff.

[Scanian]

Also reminds me of fishtraps set up in streams by American Indians.

[ClearCase_guy]

I'm not sure I grasp all the details, but this strikes me as far-fetched.

Nomadic people have to move and follow the game. They don't have time to stay in one spot and construct enormous stone walls in order to funnel the quarry to a killing spot.

On the other hand, sedentary people engaging in agriculture can stay in one spot and build walls for a variety of purposes. But such people tend to have herds of domesticated animals which can provide fresh meat and therefore probably don't have any need to construct enormous stone walls in order to funnel the quarry to a killing spot.

I just don't see who would want to, need to, or be able to do what this article seems to be suggesting.

[Renegade]

Dropped boulders on them also as they funneled through a thin pass .

[skimbell]

"...We were not taken by surprise by the technological ability; humans in that period were very similar to us in their capabilities…"

OK, whatever!

[sticker]

but, that would be wasteful AND all the enviro-wienies and anti-Western civilization freaks like to spout off about how the native Americans were so concerned about the environment

[agere_contra]

Nomadic people have to move and follow the game.

It's a fair question. As I understand it, the Nomadic people we have in the world today move to new patches of grazing for their herds. They don't do so to follow game.

[Gondring]

happened in various places

[Gondring]

ping

[Ditter]

I think you are correct. My husband has erected barbed wire fences to funnel his cattle toward the cattle pens in the same way.

[humblegunner]

hunting not only gentle animals, such as deer, but also larger hoofed animals like wild ass and rams.

Hunting the wild ass ping.

[Paine in the Neck]

Ancient native people in North America also used a similar technique called buffalo jumps...bison herds would be driven over a hidden cliff.

I have been thinking lately that this is also the technique the Obama/Emmanuel have been using to run panicked voters over the cliff of socialism.

[GreyFriar]

ping

[Gondring]

American Indians left more garbage per capita than modern Americans.

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[Gondring]

Pre-Colonial, that is.

[csmusaret]

Like rabbit drives around the turn of the century in the western US...http://digarc.usc.edu/assetserver/controller/view/CHS-1475

[MCF]

The animals may have been only semi-domesticated because you could not concentrate them in one area due to lack of forage.

[WVKayaker]

I like wild ass...