Aug 21, 2024 · Historical and ethnographic sources depict use of portable braced shaft weapons, or pikes, in megafauna hunting and defense during Late Holocene millennia in North and South America, Africa, Eurasia and Southeast Asia.

Aug 21, 2024 · Drawing from historical examples of pike use against lions, jaguars, boars, grizzlies, carabao and warhorses we consider the possibility of a fluted lithic pike.

Aug 23, 2024 · Recent research 1 has unveiled a remarkable technological adaptation used by the Clovis culture—a system of braced pikes that were likely employed in the hunting of massive megaherbivores and for defense against large predators.

Aug 22, 2024 · Instead of throwing spears, these early hunters likely used a technique involving planted pikes. The idea, proposed by Berkeley researchers, is that the hunters would plant the pointed end of their spears firmly in the ground and angle them upwards.

Using a type of slide or pendulum, they hope to simulate what an attack might have looked like as a planted Clovis-tipped pike made impact with a massive, fast-moving mammal.

Aug 21, 2024 · Drawing from historical examples of pike use against lions, jaguars, boars, grizzlies, carabao and warhorses we consider the possibility of a fluted lithic pike.

May 18, 2024 · Drawing from historical examples of pike use against lions, boars, grizzlies, carabao and warhorses we consider the possibility of a fluted lithic pike.

Jan 1, 2024 · With a lithic pike, instead of the mainshaft receding after initial penetration, the animal continues moving onto the braced pike shaft, and the foreshaft components stay bound to the...

Aug 22, 2024 · In the coming months, the team plans to further test its theory by building something akin to a replica mammoth. Using a type of slide or pendulum, they hope to simulate what an attack might have looked like as a planted Clovis-tipped pike made impact with a massive, fast-moving mammal.

Aug 21, 2024 · In the coming months, the team plans to further test its theory by building something akin to a replica mammoth. Using a type of slide or pendulum, they hope to simulate what an attack might have looked like as a planted Clovis-tipped pike made impact with a massive, fast-moving mammal.