An excavation from the Andean Highlands in Peru of the remains of a woman reveals that hunting tools were buried alongside her. The tools recovered include six stone projectiles and 24 other stone artifacts
Shit, isn't there some evidence that the earliest hunters of large game just chased them to death?
Literally just scare a deer or giraffe or something and take turns chasing it until it collapses from exhaustion or its run off of a cliff. Ranged weapons wouldn't be used to do much more than goad the animal into trying to keep itself running with clubs being used to finish it off when it was too weak to run or fight back. Doesn't really matter much about gender then would it?
Shit, isn't there some evidence that the earliest hunters of large game just chased them to death?
Literally just scare a deer or giraffe or something and take turns chasing it until it collapses from exhaustion or its run off of a cliff. Ranged weapons wouldn't be used to do much more than goad the animal into trying to keep itself running with clubs being used to finish it off when it was too weak to run or fight back. Doesn't really matter much about gender then would it?
It is theorized that early humans were persistence hunters and the practice is still alive in parts of the world currently.
https://expertvagabond.com/tarahumara-runners/
That's also a strategy with poison darts/arrows. The poison doesn't immediately kill them so you run a marathon until it does.
I saw a doc video of a hunter in Africa just chaising a gazelle for about 16 mi. it was amazing.