Satellite Images Show Ancient Hunting Traps Used by South American Social Groups
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Satellite images reveal ancient hunting traps used by South American social groups, sparking discussion about parallel innovation and cultural exchange in ancient hunting practices.
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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...
One possibility on origin (totally made up by me) could be that there were large stones lying around already as debris from e.g. earthquakes, celestial events and such and some groups took advantage of this and later people iterated upon it.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOBmfHkcWj8
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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.
At least 6000bc, eh? Any reason for that conclusion? None is given.
From the original article, linked multiple times: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/te...
> Traditionally, the inception of Neolithic lifeways in the Western Valleys of northern Chile is believed to have occurred during the early Formative Period (c. 2000 BC)
key word: "believed" re 2000 BC
They also say:
> The chacu and small-scale settlements described above suggest that a range of human groups occupied this landscape from at least 6000 BC to AD 1700. These groups moved strategically across the highlands, tethered primarily to hunting resources, particularly vicuña.
Its simply stated as true.