Chief Dan George's "Civilized Tribes" ...

[dogtag]

In general, subsistence hunter-gatherers shape their lives and travels around the food source. If there is a place where you can stampede buffalo off a cliff, that's where you want to be when the buffalo get there. After the stampede you move on to the next foot source.

That's what they did with the Woolly Mammoths. Oops, they've all gone, now what do we eat ?

[Vern Humphrey]

That's what they did with the Woolly Mammoths. Oops, they've all gone, now what do we eat ?

There's quite a controversy about that -- some archeologists feel they wiped out the mammoths, others say, "they'd kill one, and tell stories about it for three generations."

If you accept that the Clovis points were projectile points, and used with atlatls, then they had a very effective big-game killing weapon and could have been quite successful.

[clintonhater]

If you accept that the Clovis points were projectile points, and used with atlatls, then they had a very effective big-game killing weapon and could have been quite successful.

Especially when you're prepared to follow a wounded animal for as many days as it takes to die of septicemia, blood loss, etc.

[Vern Humphrey]

Especially when you're prepared to follow a wounded animal for as many days as it takes to die of septicemia, blood loss, etc.

That's how pygmies today kill elephants -- stab them in the belly and follow them until they collapse.

[clintonhater]

That's how pygmies today kill elephants -- stab them in the belly and follow them until they collapse.

True nature lovers, just like American Indians.

[dryheat]

That's how pygmies today kill elephants -- stab them in the belly and follow them until they collapse.

They can't stab any higher, they're pygmies.

[dogtag]

They can't stab any higher, they're pygmies.

Are there any tall pygmies ?

[Vern Humphrey]

Are there any tall pygmies ?

I met a pygmie once who was seven feet tall -- but he had been sick.