
Vol 1 Ep 12 - Hunter-gatherers
History of the World podcast
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The Evolution of the Wooden Harpoons
The semlige harpoons had evolved into something more complex, but at the same time more durable. So it would make perfect sense for them to have been created with the intention of being part of a composite tool. Maybe they were attached with resin to a bone, an antela, which could have become the perfect harpoon with which to capture small animals and even fish. Recent studies suggest that humans would have also discovered that some of the fruits of the trees suitable for the construction of wooden tools would have been poisonous. This is actually something which goes on in today's hunter gatherer societies,. where the peoples are actually using poisonous plants to make their arrows more effective by further debilitating the
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