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I am not knowledgeable on this but thought I heard reports of native American Indians running buffalo herds off cliffs. If so, no significant expenditure of ammunition would be needed. Honestly can't remember where I heard this. Of course, if they could do it, so could meat and fur hunters. Peter. Be without fear in the face of your enemies. Be brave and upright, that God may love thee. Speak the truth always, even if it leads to your death. Safeguard the helpless and do no wrong; | |||
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ledvm, did Dr. Derr happened to research the number of cliffs available at the time | |||
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Peter, That was a tactic used in Pre European times prior to the introduction of the horse. It must be remembered that the Horse Indian as famed in TV and film only lasted for a few generations. The horse was introduced primarily by the Spanish in the southwest. Until feral and stolen stock moved east and north the natives were not very mobil and stayed very close to major waterways. They used the stampede over a cliff huning tactic because they couldnt catch the buffalo with out horses. To my knowledge it was not ever used by Eupoean market hunters. I gues we just brought up another aspect about pre-historic hunters pushing species into extiction--if their descendents couldnt catch a buffalo how did they earlier? SSR | |||
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Peter, The cliff thing was employed no doubt. But the bison was not hurt by that at all. In the days of things like the cliff technique...people with modern minds just can't comprehend. If you started watching a herd go by...sometimes it would take 3 days...yes...72 constant hours for it to go by. They dwarfed the African migrations!!! Killing a few hundred with cliffs was a drop in the ocean! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ J. Lane Easter, DVM A born Texan has instilled in his system a mind-set of no retreat or no surrender. I wish everyone the world over had the dominating spirit that motivates Texans.– Billy Clayton, Speaker of the Texas House No state commands such fierce pride and loyalty. Lesser mortals are pitied for their misfortune in not being born in Texas.— Queen Elizabeth II on her visit to Texas in May, 1991. | |||
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Of course, thanks for that reminder! One tends to think that this was always the case! Peter. Be without fear in the face of your enemies. Be brave and upright, that God may love thee. Speak the truth always, even if it leads to your death. Safeguard the helpless and do no wrong; | |||
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It's too bad we didn't have the EPA 10,000 years ago. If we had then mammoths and all those other ice age mammals could have been listed as endangered and would still be around today, right? . | |||
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An even bigger rock...... "Ignorance you can correct, you can't fix stupid." JWP If stupidity hurt, a lot of people would be walking around screaming. Semper Fidelis "Building Carpal Tunnel one round at a time" | |||
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