US EditionHarpoons Carved from Whale Bones Confirm Ancient Whaling Culture 5,000 Years Ago
Artifacts reveal indigenous coastal communities had advanced whaling skills and hunted large baleen whales 5,000 years ago, with over 9,000 items recovered from sambaquis, researchers said.
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5,000-Year-Old Whale-Bone Harpoons Found in Brazil Reveal Early Indigenous Whaling
Whale bone harpoon socket pieces. Credit: Krista McGrath / CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Archaeologists have identified whale-bone harpoons dating back 5,000 years in southern Brazil, offering new evidence that Indigenous communities hunted massive marine animals long before the invention of metal tools or advanced boats. The findings suggest these early populations crafted harpoons from whale bones, using them to hunt species including humpbacks and blue wha…
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Pop NewsHarpoons Carved from Whale Bones Confirm Ancient Whaling Culture 5,000 Years Ago
How do you hunt a whale when your boat is made of logs lashed with vines and your harpoon is carved from animal bone? That’s what Spanish researchers were left wondering when they discovered evidence from a museum in southern Brazil that indigenous people 5,000 years ago were hunting large baleen whales like the humpback […] The post Harpoons Carved from Whale Bones Confirm Ancient Whaling Culture 5,000 Years Ago appeared first on Good News Netw…
Whale hunting began much earlier – and much farther south – than scientists suspected before. Five thousand-year-old whale bone harpoons and other artifacts along Brazil's southern coast suggest that indigenous communities actively hunted whales [...]
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