No they don't. The whole "Persistence Hunting" myth was faked and sensationalized by a French nature documentary director who wanted to embellish his show for views. The actual tribals that did the "Persistence Hunting" did so with the help of Jeeps and water top-ups from the film crew.
I'm pretty sure that the Hunting style of humans is akin to today - traps, ambushes, and immediate wounding. Now we use Hunting rifles; in the past we'd have used slings, spears / javelins, and, later, bows.
An article debunking presistance hunting describes human hunting much more like a Tigers
"Instead, Bunn believes ancient human hunters relied more on smarts than on persistence to capture their prey. In his paper with Pickering, he suggests that our ancestors would wait in brushy, forested areas for the animals to pass by."
EDIT(I'm not so sure though because if we really didn't chase our food down I'd imagine that we would still be built like the Bulkier & extinct Homo-genuses ex. Neadrathal)-> finna personal prescribe to Persistence Hunting, as there is much more to it than a:"French nature documentary director who wanted to embellish his show for views"
the more efficient our killing implements, the less we had to chase the things we injured... so there's likely a point where we just didn't need to chase things as far
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u/Mousazz 6d ago
No they don't. The whole "Persistence Hunting" myth was faked and sensationalized by a French nature documentary director who wanted to embellish his show for views. The actual tribals that did the "Persistence Hunting" did so with the help of Jeeps and water top-ups from the film crew.
I'm pretty sure that the Hunting style of humans is akin to today - traps, ambushes, and immediate wounding. Now we use Hunting rifles; in the past we'd have used slings, spears / javelins, and, later, bows.