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UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE

Faculty of Arts and HumanitiesModelling prehistoric hunting behaviour

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Approaching game

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Either when game was tracked up to visual contact or sighted by chance — the latter of which seems to have occurred more often — an immediate shift in the hunting strategy took place. Immediate stopping, often together with crouching down, increased the probability of not being seen by the game. If the game had not noticed our presence, one or two trackers separated from the group and approached it, either directly, or on larger detours, depending on wind direction. The rest of the group hid in the meantime and waited for the hunting party to come back.

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