What materials did prehistoric hunters use to trap animals?

Question

they did use traps to catch animals

Answer 1

well, they could've used various plants that had hemp like qualities to fashion ropes- but a more simpler method was like the natives- either have an ambush or chase the animal and let him/her fall from a steep cliff... things were kept simple back in the day, and it wasn't the materials that they used to trap animals, but the terrain that they were aware of...

Answer 2

I'm with Lux on this one. It just made more sense to use natural land features than to spend energy trying to build a trap. Of course once the horse and bow came along it gave them a little more of an advantage.

Answer 3

Please bear with me on this answer.

If my autism experience and the same experience of others like me ever holds water there are many other factors to consider. Autistic people have keen senses our hearing is tuned much higher than normal and we often hear the stuff your dog does. While that drives a modern autistic person nuts many of us learned what we we are hearing and used it to our advantage. I trouble shoot cars with that keen sense I hear what other mechanics don't.

IF were a version of pre man they would have been able to hear and sense much better than you think. I grew up in a rural area and often walked the cornfields and the Meadows and played with my rabbits (wild ones) out of doors and heard what spooked them it was not the screen door squeak as everyone assumed it was the squawk of a distant eagle.  

I think pre man might not have been the wild hunter but the opportunistic hunter and honed in on the injured and weak for an "easier kill" .

Autistic have a very good connection with animals  we hear what they hear. Temple Grandin and cattle is a good example and when I was out roaming I could walk right up to the meanest dog and even helped injured dear stuck in fences.

Answer 4

I don't believe they used traps as we might think of them, they relied on their numbers and their ability to use clubs and stones. They may have cornered or forced some prey into a ravine or something and once in there they would stone it and club it , I'm sure that some of them were very accurate with sling like weapons that hurled stones if they couldn't get close to an animal.