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Reply #30 - Mar 24^th, 2006 at 6:16pm

i think it has something to do with their vision and ability to judge distances. they were talking about the seeing abiliyty on some crime show. it said something like the women had a bigger part of the brain than men, so they could more quickly memorize more about a person, useful as a witness, no? i think they also talked about the distance judgement and such also.

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chaosmage Senior Member Offline I love Slinging.org! Posts: 322	Re: neolithic sling Reply #31 - Mar 24^th, 2006 at 11:57pm Judging by what an old Soviet officer said on the History channel, women are simply more patient than men.
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Reply #32 - Mar 25^th, 2006 at 1:14pm

The female is the deadlier of the species. (If I remember right it was in a book by Heinlein.)

But mostly it takes them longer to get angry enough to atack.
That may be because they do take care of the young, and need to leave the young alone to attack.
In most animals the male will (mock) fight with other males of the same species but the female will only fight for real and than nearly never with the same species.

In people this is watered down, but maybe the old instincts are not as dead as we often think they are.

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siguy Interfector Viris Spurii Offline si vis pacem para bellum Posts: 1714 connecticut Gender:	Re: neolithic sling Reply #33 - Mar 26^th, 2006 at 5:04pm as i understand it, when they are choosing police dogs(mostly german shepards) for work, they only pick males. this is because the females, once they start attacking, can not be called off. males are more easily controlled in this aspect.
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chaosmage Senior Member Offline I love Slinging.org! Posts: 322	Re: neolithic sling Reply #34 - Mar 26^th, 2006 at 11:20pm It most definately depends on the animal.
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Taiki Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Don't tell my mom i'm here will you... Posts: 1255 belgium Gender:	Re: neolithic sling Reply #35 - Mar 26^th, 2006 at 11:28pm and to the person calling the dog off as well...
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Re: neolithic sling
Reply #36 - Mar 30^th, 2006 at 5:10am

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I should ask my friends dad, he's an archeoligist for ancient south east native americans. he said they used slings, but he didn't go into much detail. he seems more interested in the atala'tl,(spelling?) and the bow

hi,
Im no expert but I guess that the atlatl and sling would have been developed at about the same time.

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Reply #37 - Mar 30^th, 2006 at 5:13am

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The female is the deadlier of the species. (If I remember right it was in a book by Heinlein.)

But mostly it takes them longer to get angry enough to atack.
That may be because they do take care of the young, and need to leave the young alone to attack.
In most animals the male will (mock) fight with other males of the same species but the female will only fight for real and than nearly never with the same species.

In people this is watered down, but maybe the old instincts are not as dead as we often think they are.

Willeke

Hi,
there is some controversial archaelogical evidence that points to our hunter gatherer and early agricultural past being extreamly violent especialy compared to life in our modern society.

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Re: neolithic sling
Reply #38 - Apr 6^th, 2006 at 6:07pm

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hi,
Im no expert but I guess that the atlatl and sling would have been developed at about the same time.

Neal

I believe the atlatl and sling were developed around the same time. They both rely on the physics behind mechanical advantage. Once neolithic humans developed one, the other must have been close behind. In someways, making a sling out of leather might have been easier to fabricate than a spear thrower. Also the sling is closer the most primitive projectile weapon: the hand thrown rock.

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bigkahuna past-moderator Offline Posts: 3894 Delaware, USA Gender:	Re: neolithic sling Reply #39 - Apr 6^th, 2006 at 11:59pm Quote: name one weapon ever invented by a woman. Women have more important things to work on in their lives than figure out ways to hurt and kill each other. Or so I like to think. Stilletto heeled high heel shoe!
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Reply #40 - Apr 7^th, 2006 at 12:04am

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O.K.... This maybe a bit off but here goes...In sniper school we learned that women are better shots than men. Thus they are employed as snipers in other countries. I'm only slightly better with rifel and pistol than my mom...took me years to beat her playing darts...woman fought with (beside)the men in alot of tribal wars/battles threwout history...

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Taiki Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Don't tell my mom i'm here will you... Posts: 1255 belgium Gender:	Re: neolithic sling Reply #41 - Apr 7^th, 2006 at 7:43am Wow What a woman probably great in the sack And a killer shot who would want to cheat her(or dare )
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Reply #42 - Apr 7^th, 2006 at 12:13pm

I think that the sling and atlatl were probably developed close together. However, some archaeologists believe that the development of the spear thrower was very quickly followed, within about 5,000 years or so, by the development of the bow. The three weapons could quite easily have been contemporaries in the "old world" as they undoubtedly were in the Central American civilisations.
It would be very interesting to find out that women are better shots than men. Considering the fact that women would have little necessity to use weaponry in comparison to men, it would be quite surprising that they would have so evolved.

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siguy Interfector Viris Spurii Offline si vis pacem para bellum Posts: 1714 connecticut Gender:	Re: neolithic sling Reply #43 - Apr 8^th, 2006 at 11:12pm well looking at the natural order of wild animals, females do most of the actual hunting and the males just sort of do an ego-dance over territory. the females do the real work, and the males just act all macho. possibly humans are naturaly driven to be the same way, as some sort of primitive instict left over from days long gone.
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Reply #44 - Apr 9^th, 2006 at 8:55am

That isn't the way human/primate societies work/have worked. Males hunt - they provide very few calories compared to what the women bring in by gathering, but the protein is important. Females normally were/are the ones who stayed closer to home, gathered roots, leaves, etc. I don't doubt the fact that civilisation is the result of women's, rather than men's, activities.

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