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What brought about the step from dart/spear to atlatl? Usually we observe and progress. Sometimes there are intuitive leaps. It seems to me the atlatl is more than one step ahead of hand thrown...
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going to vanilla coke from plain coke would be quite the jump indeed. but making vanilla coke after knowing both plain coke and vanilla as enjoyable things is just like putting 1 and 1 together. and...
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Maybe some one noticed the people with longer arm could throw further and those people had bolas as well .so a thinking problem solving mind would put 2 and 2 together and get 6 .....and figure out a...
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There are too many places where this could have cropped up to really have a good guess. You could realize you could hit things harder with a stick than by hand and then try putting a spear on the...
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BTW, I'm cross-posting this to the atlatl forum, as it's pretty slow over there these days. I'll put up a link there to the discussion here.
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gekitsu wrote:going to vanilla coke from plain coke would be quite the jump indeed. but making vanilla coke after knowing both plain coke and vanilla as enjoyable things is just like putting 1 and 1...
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Basketmaker II wrote:BTW, I'm cross-posting this to the atlatl forum, as it's pretty slow over there these days. I'll put up a link there to the discussion here. Slow? The slow blade penetrates the...
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< Basketmaker What was the pressure that made it necessary, what were the socioeconomic conditions like at that time(s)/place(s) that made it necessary? Hunger and not wanting to die. Kevin
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People were hungry and didn't want to die for all time leading up to that point as well-by the time there were atlatls, modern humans had been around for about 180,000 years, give or take. I wonder if...
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me, i wouldn’t be surprised if people back then were as easily lured by any kind of improvement as we are.
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When I was about ten or eleven years old, we were traveling, and stopped at the house of an old friend of my parents to visit. I was playing outside in the yard, and found a ski pole. There were crab...
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gekitsu wrote:me, i wouldn’t be surprised if people back then were as easily lured by any kind of improvement as we are. Somehow I am drawn to improve upon that statement. Kevin
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Basketmaker II wrote:People were hungry and didn't want to die for all time leading up to that point as well-by the time there were atlatls, modern humans had been around for about 180,000 years, give...
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Quest for fire wrote:gekitsu wrote:me, i wouldn’t be surprised if people back then were as easily lured by any kind of improvement as we are. Somehow I am drawn to improve upon that statement. Kevin i...
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I vote for "somebody messing around and being surprised by the results." In many places, at many different times. Sometimes they'd move the technology forward after they'd played with it for a while....
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Y'know, I think toxophileken is a close to a best guess about the evolution as anyone can get. Might not have been a crab apple, but I'd be willing to bet that such an experience could have spawned...
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Moosetrot When the apples start dropping again I just might have to take a step back into the past and try to pick off one of the Spandex-wearing bikers one the road! Moosetrot Betcha five bucks you...
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Two notions came to mind for this topic.Danger avoidance or prey availability changes.Danger avoidance: Mammoths and mastodons are huge walking grocery stores full of food for a paleo group of...
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