How early humans faced a terrifying Ice Age predator
Fourteen thousand years ago, survival meant risking everything, even facing down a giant bear. In caves along the Canadian coast, archaeologists have theorised how early humans hunted one of the most terrifying predators of the Ice Age, the short-faced bear. But what brutal strategy did they use to take it down? Join palaeoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi as she ventures into muddy cave systems in search of ancient bones, stone weapons, and the secrets of a deadly prehistoric hunt.
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