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Instead of Thrown, Spears Were Planted in the Ground to Kill a Charging Mammoth
(www.discovermagazine.com)
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i remember reading how eskimos would wrap sharp bone fragments in balls of fat and leave them for polar bears.. then they would follow the bears until they died of internal bleeding.
elephants are much smarter than bears though.
Elephants (and mammoths probably) are also herbivores that chew their food. Sometimes that food is a whole tree. Using the polar bear sharp bone strategy would be like feeding a razor blade to a wood chipper.