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Ancient people in Brazil were hunting massive whales 5,000 years ago, well before Arctic civilizations

When we imagine the earliest humans brave enough to hunt a forty-ton whale, the image that usually comes to mind is frosty ...

Scientists find oldest direct evidence of whaling in a place they never suspected

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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World's Oldest Harpoon Shows Humans Have Hunted Whales For 5,000 Years, Way Longer Than Thought

Researchers at the Autonomous University of Barcelona in Spain have put together a multi-dimensional argument that Indigenous ...

Whale hunting began 5,000 years ago in South America, a millennium earlier than previously thought

The hunting of large whales goes back much further in time than previously thought. New research from the Institute of ...