Some Great Basin tribes in the Western US would use a mobile version of this on open plains to catch antelope. A large group would gather and erect a large corral with tall posts. Then they would fan out over the land and drive the animals into the area to trap them.
Drives toward corrals with v shaped blind walls are still used today in Australia to muster cleanskin (wild, unbranded) cattle, camels, goats, donkeys, pigs, etc.
The corrals need to be solid and robust, the blind walls can be light hessian cloth, or anything really that in the heat of a drive causes an animal to turn and run in a desired direction.
Kites - as they are often called - are very commonly found in what were Paleolithic human and proto-human areas.
Given this was in Chile and not the Levant, parallel innovation, or less likely but possible long lasting memetic/social transfer is definitely interesting
Some Great Basin tribes in the Western US would use a mobile version of this on open plains to catch antelope. A large group would gather and erect a large corral with tall posts. Then they would fan out over the land and drive the animals into the area to trap them.
Drives toward corrals with v shaped blind walls are still used today in Australia to muster cleanskin (wild, unbranded) cattle, camels, goats, donkeys, pigs, etc.
The corrals need to be solid and robust, the blind walls can be light hessian cloth, or anything really that in the heat of a drive causes an animal to turn and run in a desired direction.
Kites - as they are often called - are very commonly found in what were Paleolithic human and proto-human areas.
Given this was in Chile and not the Levant, parallel innovation, or less likely but possible long lasting memetic/social transfer is definitely interesting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_kite
https://openarchaeologydata.metajnl.com/articles/10.5334/joa...
I watched a nice video by Stefan Milo about these recently [0] if anyone is interested.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOBmfHkcWj8