UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE

Faculty of Arts and HumanitiesModelling prehistoric hunting behaviour

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Successful hunts

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Hunting success was documented in the following way: while approaching game the hunting party had to estimate when proximity to the animal was sufficient to launch an arrow. “Shooting the animal” then was accomplished with a dustproof, robust compact digital GPS-camera (see Technical equipment), by taking a photograph, by which probability of success could be estimated subsequently, and a GPS position of the shooting spot. In cases when the hunt could have been successful, the hunting party went to the spot where the animal had been standing and took another photograph, by which the track of the animal was taken, again along with a GPS position.