Could it be that our Paleolithic forebears were more than artists and hunters, that they were also the world’s earliest ...

Prehistoric hunters, Byram said, would have had to face a serious shortcoming in their most deadly weapon. “Stone tools can be very sharp, but they’re often very brittle, right?” Byram said.

The researchers explain that after the elephants disappeared from the region, the ancient hunters were forced to make technological adaptations enabling them to hunt, butcher, and process much ...

Prehistoric hunters, Byram said, would have had to face a serious shortcoming in their most deadly weapon. “Stone tools can be very sharp, but they’re often very brittle, right?” Byram said.

An exhibit on Prehistoric hunters and foragers is on display in the North American Archeology Exhibit, which opened in November 1962, in the National Museum of Natural History. The exhibit case ...

Paleolithic hunters may have also employed this technique from time to time, in addition to employing communal hunts, traps, snares, stalking, and ambushing, Morin and Winterhalder suggest.

Prehistoric hunters, Byram said, would have had to face a serious shortcoming in their most deadly weapon. “Stone tools can be very sharp, but they’re often very brittle, right?” Byram said.

Prehistoric hunters, Byram said, would have had to face a serious shortcoming in their most deadly weapon. “Stone tools can be very sharp, but they’re often very brittle, right?” Byram said.