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Some of the oldest harpoons ever found reveal Indigenous people in Brazil were hunting whales 5,000 years ago
The origins of whaling are highly debated. Now, some of the earliest signs of active whale hunting have appeared somewhere ...
How do you hunt a whale when your boat is made of logs lashed with vines and your harpoon is carved from animal bone?
Ancient whale-bone harpoons found in Brazil reveal Indigenous whale hunting 5,000 years ago, long before the use of metal tools.
Once dismissed as sticks and forgotten in a museum, the 5,000-year-old tools show prehistoric people hunted whales far from ...
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5,000-year-old whale bones and harpoons from Brazil reveal the earliest evidence of organised whaling
Historians and archaeologists long considered that the origins of organised whaling lay in the Arctic region of the Earth. A recent discovery in southern Brazil disproves this hypothesis. In the ...
The hunting of large whales goes back much further in time than previously thought. New research from the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona ...
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What if humans never began the slaughter of whales?
Back in 1846, whaling was one of the most booming industries in the whole world. It was the fifth largest sector in the ...
Researchers have observed dolphins and killer whales hunting together for the first time as part of a new study released on Thursday, Dec. 11. The top predators joined forces to feast on salmon off ...
Humpback whales aren’t just recovering in numbers. Learning to hunt together may help them survive a warming, unpredictable ...
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