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Indigenous communities in southern Brazil hunted large whales 5,000 years ago
The first clue sits in a museum drawer, not on a windswept Arctic shore. It is a whale bone, marked and shaped by human hands ...
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Ancient people in Brazil were hunting massive whales 5,000 years ago, well before Arctic civilizations
When we imagine the earliest humans brave enough to hunt a forty-ton whale, the image that usually comes to mind is frosty and monochromatic. We tend to think of the Arctic: people wrapped in furs, ...
The hunting of large whales goes back much further in time than previously thought. New research from the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona ...
During the 19th century, whaling was a multi-million dollar industry in the United States involving long whale hunting voyages across the world’s oceans by hundreds of whaleships. The service is free, ...
The International Whaling Commission effectively banned commercial whaling from 1986 and yet the world’s amazing and environmentally essential whales are still being hunted for their flesh and blubber ...
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