Some Great Basin tribes in the Western US would use a mobile version of this on open plains to catch antelope. A large group would gather and erect a large corral with tall posts. Then they would fan out over the land and drive the animals into the area to trap them.
Drives toward corrals with v shaped blind walls are still used today in Australia to muster cleanskin (wild, unbranded) cattle, camels, goats, donkeys, pigs, etc.
The corrals need to be solid and robust, the blind walls can be light hessian cloth, or anything really that in the heat of a drive causes an animal to turn and run in a desired direction.
> "The picture that emerges is of a landscape occupied by a range of human groups from at least 6000 B.C. to the 18th century," Dr. Oyaneder concludes.
At least 6000bc, eh? Any reason for that conclusion? None is given.
Another place near me the Alpena-Amberly Ridge under Lake Huron has a bunch of stone caribou traps for both south and northern migration hunting patterns. There should be a decent article or two about those them if you are so inclined to look up that ridge.
Kites - as they are often called - are very commonly found in what were Paleolithic human and proto-human areas.
Given this was in Chile and not the Levant, parallel innovation, or less likely but possible long lasting memetic/social transfer is definitely interesting
I am curious about the evolution of technology that sparks a people to build these. What are the intermediary steps that get you from nothing to coordinating a tribe to construct these over years?
Some Great Basin tribes in the Western US would use a mobile version of this on open plains to catch antelope. A large group would gather and erect a large corral with tall posts. Then they would fan out over the land and drive the animals into the area to trap them.
Drives toward corrals with v shaped blind walls are still used today in Australia to muster cleanskin (wild, unbranded) cattle, camels, goats, donkeys, pigs, etc.
The corrals need to be solid and robust, the blind walls can be light hessian cloth, or anything really that in the heat of a drive causes an animal to turn and run in a desired direction.
Nice. What's the app called? Is it available on Android?
;)
> "The picture that emerges is of a landscape occupied by a range of human groups from at least 6000 B.C. to the 18th century," Dr. Oyaneder concludes.
At least 6000bc, eh? Any reason for that conclusion? None is given.
Another place near me the Alpena-Amberly Ridge under Lake Huron has a bunch of stone caribou traps for both south and northern migration hunting patterns. There should be a decent article or two about those them if you are so inclined to look up that ridge.
Kites - as they are often called - are very commonly found in what were Paleolithic human and proto-human areas.
Given this was in Chile and not the Levant, parallel innovation, or less likely but possible long lasting memetic/social transfer is definitely interesting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_kite
https://openarchaeologydata.metajnl.com/articles/10.5334/joa...
I am curious about the evolution of technology that sparks a people to build these. What are the intermediary steps that get you from nothing to coordinating a tribe to construct these over years?
I watched a nice video by Stefan Milo about these recently [0] if anyone is interested.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOBmfHkcWj8