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BorriStonehammer [2019-08-18 20:40:28 +0000 UTC]
The only problem I have with this image is that the projectile point isn't fluted. All finished Clovis points are fluted.
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BorriStonehammer In reply to Pelycosaur24 [2019-08-19 16:20:43 +0000 UTC]
Great otherwise. Not to mention great inspiration for my own paleo clothing.
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BorriStonehammer In reply to Pelycosaur24 [2020-03-01 15:41:32 +0000 UTC]
I'd like to amend my earlier comment. Not all finished points were fluted. Some were even just fluted on one side.
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Burksaurus [2019-05-23 20:57:04 +0000 UTC]
That's a cute Native American woman. I noticed you like to draw women as hunters and warriors. I think it's awesome.
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Burksaurus In reply to Pelycosaur24 [2021-03-23 13:55:59 +0000 UTC]
You're welcome, I do think it's really cool. I always wondered if women hunted in prehistory.
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Khandle [2018-10-14 07:54:59 +0000 UTC]
I would agree that Brother Bear is probably the most accurate animated movie set in the Stone Age, except for the whole main plot about a guy magically turning into a bear.
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Khandle In reply to Pelycosaur24 [2018-10-25 12:19:59 +0000 UTC]
Yes, of course. Funny I was just actually thinking about Brother Bear. I should probably see it again. Haven't in a long time.
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Tigerstar82 In reply to Pelycosaur24 [2018-11-29 02:53:14 +0000 UTC]
I actually like that movie, and they're Clovis people? I initially thought they were Inuits or First Nation due to being in Alaska. Wow, Disney actually did their research. Kudos to them.
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Pelycosaur24 In reply to Tigerstar82 [2018-11-30 09:20:25 +0000 UTC]
Thank you! Well they never actually call them Clovis... but I assumed that they must have been the inspiration given how close the information hits home
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sinusonasus1 [2017-11-14 00:30:35 +0000 UTC]
Just got the book Dogs: their fossil relatives and evolutionary history, and on page 161, it notes that Domestic Dogs may have crossed over Beringia with humans 15,000 ka, and that they may have played a major role in the peopling of the americas. Is there any fossil evidence the Clovis kept dogs?
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Pelycosaur24 In reply to sinusonasus1 [2017-11-19 10:01:13 +0000 UTC]
Hm... that is a good question - I could not find any archaeological evidence, the assumption that dogs came with humans to America is based on genetic research.
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Packless1 In reply to Pelycosaur24 [2018-05-10 13:53:24 +0000 UTC]
There are 3 main-theories, what killed the north-american mega-fauna
-Chill (frozen in the ice-age)
-Kill (over-hunting by the paleo-americans, who came from from Sibiria)
-ill (new bactiria / viruses / parasites from the 'old world', the immune-systems of the american animals weren't able to handle)
Some scientists claim, that some dog-deseases might have played some role in the decimation of north-america's mega-fauna...?
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Pelycosaur24 In reply to Packless1 [2018-05-11 20:03:46 +0000 UTC]
I guess all of these could be possible. But I personally dont think prehistoric humans could have had such an impact on an ecosystem, especially since archaeological evidence only confirms a handfull of Megafauna kill sites in North America. But it is an interesting topic to look into!
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Fox-The-Wandering [2017-10-11 23:04:01 +0000 UTC]
Ooh this is a wonderful illustration. She looks fantastic here, with the details of her outfit, her weapon of choice and her home. It's always cool to learn about people who lived way back when with the tools they have, and how they lived. I didn't know that Brother Bear 1 and 2 had represented the Clovis culture in those movies; looking back at them now, it makes a lot of sense with the clothing and tools they wore and used. You learn something new every day! Anyhow, well done here!
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Fox-The-Wandering In reply to Pelycosaur24 [2017-10-17 00:03:52 +0000 UTC]
You are very welcome! Your piece is fantastic.
Ooh a review for Brother Bear? I'm looking forward to it!
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Zaarin1 [2017-09-17 16:32:13 +0000 UTC]
I have such a love/hate relationship with Brother Bear. The story is charming, the animation quality is probably the best of any of the post-Renaissance Disney films, and as you say so many of the details are accurate--but on the other hand there was virtually NO Native American or Native Alaskan involvement in the films (unlike Pocahontas, which leaves one wondering why Pocahontas is wrong about virtually everything...), Phil Collins' soundtrack is jarringly out of place, and while watching I like to play a little game called "count the violations of taboo." (Yes, I know we don't know anything about specific taboos from the period--but there are some taboos that are universal among Eskimo-Aleut, Paleosiberian, Na-Dene, and Western Native American peoples that can probably be generalized, like not speaking the name of the deceased [which Kenai does *frequently*]...)
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Pelycosaur24 In reply to Zaarin1 [2017-09-17 18:21:41 +0000 UTC]
Interesting! I understand that perspective and it would have been nice to have some local involvement with the movie - and even if -as you said- the setting of brother bear is a little too early to make some actual inferences from recent cultures (after all Inuit only migrated to America 5000 years after the movie takes place) it would have been a nice touch to at least use native traditions as an inspiration - at least the general ones.
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Zaarin1 In reply to Pelycosaur24 [2017-09-17 22:57:34 +0000 UTC]
I actually didn't realize before that the movie was based on the Clovis culture, though that makes sense since the presence of mammoths obviously places the movie about seven thousand years before the Inuit and four thousand before the Na-Dene (Tlingit-Eyak-Athabaskans). (If I'm not mistaken the only Amerindians still in the region are the Haida on Haida Gwaii and, further south, the Tsimshian.) I noticed they borrowed the belief that the aurora represents the ancestors of the people from the Inuit (and also found in Siberia), though, which is probably why the violation of the naming the dead taboo stands out to me.
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