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What Did The Great Basin Tribe Use To Hunt?

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    The Great Basin region has been occupied for over
    12,000 years.  First to come were the Paleo-Indians,
    considered big game hunters being how their prey
    were animals such as the Bison and the extinct
    Mammoth and Ground Sloth  Their hunting tools
    were large fluted (each face is flaked on both sides)
    and unfluted stone points lashed to the tip of a spear.

    The Atlatl, or 'spear thrower' was developed soon after.  
    This device was simple, but it  increased the spear velocity
    made aiming more accurate.  There were stone knives,
    bow and arrows (coming into use between 2,000 and
    3,000 years ago), nets, snares and traps.  Fish were
    caught with hook and line, basket traps, nets, harpoons
    and spears.  Rabbits and other burrowing rodents were
    pulled from their holes with hooked sticks and clubbed.   
    Mountain Sheep were taken by hunters with bow and
    arrow or with deadfalls and traps.  In the 16th century,
    horses were added (very slowly) to the list of hunting tools.





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    Syron9  

    answered 2 weeks ago

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