>>2760072That says absolutely nothing about persistence hunting you bozo and it says most of them died of starvation kek.
But no it is (for such a widespread internet/rooner myth) shockingly devoid of real evidence and recreation.There is a loose account of a tribe in Africa that has ideal circumstances, aka flat hot terrain with the fight fauna, and very little if any forestation- and even then this account is questionable and allegations have surfaced in recent years that the animals are first chased with a vehicle.
Anyways, there have been many many attempts to recreate this in other hot parts of the globe- and all have failed. There is a world class runner who has devoted years to trying it in the southwestern deserts. It gas failed every single time and is not viable. He even expanded to carrying a bow to see if he could at least tore the animal to close enough distance to take a shot. Still no luck.
What tends to happen is that the animal sprints away and rests- then you repeat this until the animal finds some terrain, ridge, rocks, etc. to hide behind and you lose your progress etc.
The fact is humans aren't persistence hunters. We are relatively well suited to long distance running, but the way we evolved was as dry-gulch eyesight based hunters. Jump down from a tree. Throw a rock. Use a group of pack hunters. Chase an animal into some waiting trap, etc. This style of hunting requires good eyesight- long distance running is also a good asset here to herd and chase animals over cliffs and into waiting traps.
But we aren't persistence hunters, what we have found is that to be viable a persistence hunting species have to be scent hunters- like canines. A canine can chase prey at speed through terrain without a direct line of site. They can keep the pressure up indefinitely even at night. They surpass our considerable long distance running ability too. But the problem is that we cannot scent hunt that's why we can never be viable persistence hunters.
