Weapon used by ancient Inca during war time

The keys to rapid Inca military successes lay in efficient organization and military infrastructure. The army was manned by peasants conscripted and warriors when needed. High ranking officers went to battle arrayed in colorful and distinctive military adornments.

Inca weapons consisted of spears, slings, bows, bronze maces, and wooden clubs. They wore amour or quilted cloth and metal plates and cane helmets.

Residing in a mountainous terrain that yielded little wood, the Inca’s most effective weapons were stones, rolled down hills or hurled from slingshots. Stones thrown from slings were the common weapon that could be used from a distance.

But while stones that Inca warriors hurled could kill as well as stun. Spanish iron helmets and mail or iron vest normally deflected the missiles of stone and rendered than incapable of deadly harm.

Inc also threw bolas, which were leather straps with rocks tied at the ends. When thrown at an enemy they wrapped around his legs and tripped him up.
Weapon used by ancient Inca during war time 

Cro-Magnon: Animal hunting

The Cro-Magnon lived during period encompassing what archeologists refer to as Aurignacian and Magdalenian cultural eras which hit their peaks respectively about 20,000 and 12,000 years ago.

Evidence from skeleton remains, tools and weapons show that Cro-Magnon was a hunter and fisherman of skill. The animals were the game for which Cro-Magnon hunters looked: reindeer, bison, cattle, deer and horses.

Cro-Magnons were well equipped with all of the necessary weapons for a successful hunt, but in spite of all their powers and equipment they knew that they would face extremely dangerous animal s that could cost them their lives.

Scientists believed that not only did the Cro-Magnon hunter have an understanding of the behavior and the patterns of the animals they hunted, they also understood the qualities of the raw materials that certain animals would provide for tool and weapon making.

During this era, man appears to have had a grasp of the properties of the materials they used and experimented with various spear shapes and bases throughout the Late Ice Age.
Cro-Magnon: Animal hunting