AMNH paper (BP #3)

          There is a model of ancients hunting. It is a cliff. The ancients were driving buffaloes over the side. They wanted driving buffaloes fall down of the cliff. Then, buffaloes die or injured, ancients killed the injured buffaloes. Finally, they would get meat form the buffaloes. That was a part of hunting. A group of buffaloes could not stop at momentary when they were running, because behind buffaloes could see what happened at front, behind buffaloes kept running, they kept push front one, all front buffaloes would fall down of the cliff until last few buffaloes.

      

        For the ancients’ hunting plan, they surrounded buffaloes, one side open, and that side is ending of cliff. Ancients hold up wolves’ furs. It made buffaloes scared. Scared buffaloes run fast and kept moving into the pitfall. Therefore, if buffaloes could not stop, they would fall down and die. However, a group of running buffaloes could not stop at that scared moment. That was a perfect hunting plan.

       I was shocked at beginning when I saw the hunting model. As their plan, ancient used least resources to get most gains. They used buffaloes’ way to kill buffaloes. I admire that eye for an eye, especially for the buffaloes. Ancients’ hunting as natural artist, they are wonderful workmanship excelling nature.

        Furthermore, ancients used different traps for different animals. For the big animals, like leopards, they make woods as a cage. And there is a small door. If a leopard or other big animals into the cage, the cage door are closing. For some animals which can’t jump, like wild boar, they using woods making a half circle wall, and there is a huge wood that will stop wild boar go back out of the circle wall when it into the trap. Ancients using tools bust. In art way, the traps are still beautiful. Some things are square, and some traps are circle. It is balanced. I think there some traps as well as variety because I saw the same skill in the TV.

                                          
 










               I really like it because it drives us using our knowledge. Learning and using together, that will become more useful. Book just is a book even it is an encyclopedia. When we use knowledge from a book, then the knowledge will belong to us. Other ways, we learn today, then forget next day. How sorrow is it! 


more about buffaloes hunting :
  http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/virtual/bison/history.php