Another method people usually forget about is simple persistance Hunting. Seriously, it's used in Africa and much of the world still today, as the only Land Animals capable of even thinking of matching Humans in Endurance are Dogs. Everything else simply overheats itself and keels over from exhaustion somewhere between the six and twenty-hour mark, and then, when it's too weak to move, you kill it. Add some torches, and a few more people and even Mammoths will fall for it.
I don't know a lot about persistence hunting outside of sub-Saharan Africa, but Wikipedia says it's also used by a native group in Mexico called the Rarámuri. It's an interesting concept, but I see a few potential problems with this idea in relation to the megafauna extinctions, though:
- Persistence hunting works by making the prey animal overheat. It doesn't work as well in cooler climates.
- I imagine that mammoths, glyptodonts and ground sloths didn't readily run away, but would more likely stand their ground, which makes persistence hunting unlikely.
- The Clovis culture used long-distance projectile weapons, which are not typical of persistence hunters.
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