Question
By the Late Pleistocene, these weapons likely took down guanacos and rheas in Patagonia, where horse cultures wielding them arose by the 17th century. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these weapons that Querandí (“kair-ahn-DEE”) game hunters possibly introduced to the Diaguita (“dee-ah-GHEE-tah”) Confederacy. Gauchos adopted these roped throwing stones to fell cattle.
ANSWER: bolas [or bolas de piedra or boleadoras or boleadeiras; accept bola perdida; prompt on balls or projectiles]
[10e] Citing anti-cavalry bolas, this book about pre-contact societies denies that horses enabled conquests after the title year. “Holmberg’s mistake” about the Sirionó in Nomads of the Long Bow opens this Charles C. Mann book.
ANSWER: 1491 [or 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus; reject “1493”] (Allan R. Holmberg’s “mistake” was to view the Sirionó as “backward” and unchanging.)
[10h] 1491 discusses Tom Dillehay’s work at this Pleistocene site, where Paleoindians hunted guanacos with bolas but unusually did not butcher horses. This coastal site was an early challenge to the Clovis-first model.
ANSWER: Monte Verde [accept Monte Verde I or Monte Verde II; accept Chinchihuapi Creek] (It is located in Chile. Horses went extinct in the Americas before they were reintroduced by the Spanish.)
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