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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Willie the Duck" data-source="post: 9757313" data-attributes="member: 6799660">I think this is a non sequitur, in that that's not what AIViking stated. There some significant ground between "our ancestors have been killing everything in their path with stone-age weapon" and  "Stone age hunters did not go toe to toe with massive predators." Few if any groups ever hunted* large predators. Just in general it is not an efficient way of acquiring food (both based on risk and regularity of coming across them). However, people have successfully defended themselves from lions/tigers/bears all the way back to the sharpened-rock era (with middling success rates, to be sure, and plenty success stories falling into the 'the spear was not the deciding factor, any putting up of a fight would have worked in making the creature look for easier/safer prey). *for food. Nobles hunting dangerous beasts for sport certainly predates the colonial era. Likewise, pre-historic people did go after boars and elephants/mammoths and other pretty dangerous non-predators in a hunting capacity, and not just by driving them off cliffs. Even Neanderthals seem to have done so, and there's indication that they couldn't/didn't throw their spears.</blockquote>