Harpoons Carved from Whale Bones Confirm Ancient Whaling Culture 5,000 Years Ago

Harpoons Carved from Whale Bones Confirm Ancient Whaling Culture 5,000 Years Ago

– credit, Patricia del Amo Martín, released in a statement © 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 before they’d discovered sailing, and before metallurgy. A study …