Consider taking on a mammoth – an animal easily more than twice your height and perhaps 150 times your weight, which roamed in herds and came armed, or rather, toothed, with 3 or 4 meters (10-13 feet) of heavy facial weaponry with which to defend themselves – and you’d be forgiven for thinking twice about the whole endeavor. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

And yet, hundreds of thousands of years ago, we managed it. Not just early humans, but our Neanderthal cousins too – a species long stereotyped as brutish scavengers, who were in fact capable of organizing successful hunts of the many terrifying fauna that shared their landscape.

Or, at least, we’re pretty sure they did. “It's quite difficult to prove that mam

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