Kites - as they are often called - are very commonly found in what were Paleolithic human and proto-human areas.
Given this was in Chile and not the Levant, parallel innovation, or less likely but possible long lasting memetic/social transfer is definitely interesting
I am curious about the evolution of technology that sparks a people to build these. What are the intermediary steps that get you from nothing to coordinating a tribe to construct these over years?
I wonder if they had meetings or 'design committees' to find the most optimal shape with respect to the ease of killing prey eventually.
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.
Some Great Basin tribes in the Western US would use a mobile version of this on open plains to catch antelope. A large group would gather and erect a large corral with tall posts. Then they would fan out over the land and drive the animals into the area to trap them.
Drives toward corrals with v shaped blind walls are still used today in Australia to muster cleanskin (wild, unbranded) cattle, camels, goats, donkeys, pigs, etc.
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.
> "The picture that emerges is of a landscape occupied by a range of human groups from at least 6000 B.C. to the 18th century," Dr. Oyaneder concludes.
At least 6000bc, eh? Any reason for that conclusion? None is given.
> 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.
Another place near me the Alpena-Amberly Ridge under Lake Huron has a bunch of stone caribou traps for both south and northern migration hunting patterns. There should be a decent article or two about those them if you are so inclined to look up that ridge.
Kites - as they are often called - are very commonly found in what were Paleolithic human and proto-human areas.
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...
I watched a nice video by Stefan Milo about these recently [0] if anyone is interested.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOBmfHkcWj8
I am curious about the evolution of technology that sparks a people to build these. What are the intermediary steps that get you from nothing to coordinating a tribe to construct these over years?
I wonder if they had meetings or 'design committees' to find the most optimal shape with respect to the ease of killing prey eventually.
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.
Some Great Basin tribes in the Western US would use a mobile version of this on open plains to catch antelope. A large group would gather and erect a large corral with tall posts. Then they would fan out over the land and drive the animals into the area to trap them.
Drives toward corrals with v shaped blind walls are still used today in Australia to muster cleanskin (wild, unbranded) cattle, camels, goats, donkeys, pigs, etc.
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.
Nice. What's the app called? Is it available on Android?
;)
> "The picture that emerges is of a landscape occupied by a range of human groups from at least 6000 B.C. to the 18th century," Dr. Oyaneder concludes.
At least 6000bc, eh? Any reason for that conclusion? None is given.
> Surface collections at 10 locations have yielded a Middle Archaic projectile point (6000–4000 BC)
From the original article, linked multiple times: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/te...
First line of the link you posted:
> 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.
Another place near me the Alpena-Amberly Ridge under Lake Huron has a bunch of stone caribou traps for both south and northern migration hunting patterns. There should be a decent article or two about those them if you are so inclined to look up that ridge.