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Originally Posted by bobabode
Those Giant Bison would have inspired a crap your pants moment in anyone meeting up with one suddenly!
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They were only a foot or so taller than the plains bison but they weighed twice as much. And then there were the horns!
That didn't stop Paleoindian hunters from taking them on. Did you see the atlatl point in that vertibra? The atlatl was a spear throwing stick with a socketed end into which the butt end of the spear was fitted. It effectively made your arm about 50% longer so that you could get a lot more force behind the throw. It was still a close range weapon so those ancient hunters needed to get right in there close to get a kill.
Amazing!
John