Tristan Hughes

Let's talk on something which kind of links in with what you were saying, because you mentioned whales there and you also mentioned muskox.

So, Asta, how much variety was there in the types of animals that they hunted centuries ago?

Do we know much about their hunting techniques and what they hunted?

From the neck.

Okay.

Yeah.

A neck bone.

No, no.

It's not a mandible, is it?

So, okay.

From that part of the whale.

Wow.

Okay.

Firstly, I love that we're now exploring like midden heaps, you know, kind of the prehistoric rubbish heaps that they are and how much information they can reveal about diets and so on.

And secondly of all, Asta, you mentioning them using harpoons and massive harpoons there.

So do we have a good sense of like the types of gadgets that they use to help them, you know, when they're taking down like a narwhal or as you say, a walrus or

or one of these great whales, you know, they had the tools with them and they had the expertise to use them to the best that they could.

Diving, yep.

I don't know if you've watched The Lord of the Rings at all, Astor, but there's like Legolas who's on top of one of the big elephants, you know, kind of thing like that.

It's that mind-boggling bravery slash stupidity or like that heroism, isn't it?