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1. i wonder what they hunted in the Sahara 12000 years ago?

Wed Dec 3, 2025, 06:20 AM

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i needed to check if the oryx were maybe being guided to the paleolithic butcher shop. someone needs to dig at the narrow end of an african kite. in arabia it is gazelle, and plenty of them.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/desert-kites-in-the-libyan-sahara-new-evidence-from-remotely-sensed-images/63DC3D3D72A3BA696AA09904C4F06B85

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i wonder what they hunted in the Sahara 12000 years ago? rampartd Wednesday #1

To raise these animals for one perverted purpose DFW Wednesday #2