Timeline for Have human runners delivered messages faster than horses?
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| Apr 3, 2017 at 5:02 | comment | added | Johnny | I will mention that persistence hunting is a bit misleading. It is generally performed in teams, who (partially) encircle the animal and drive it towards other hunters. I've yet to find a case of the romantic notion of persistence hunting, involving one hunter following for hours or days after an animal. -- Compared to the strategy of working with a group, both costing less energy and having less chance of losing an animal's trail or running into a predator, I don't imagine it will be easy to find such a case. | |
| Mar 29, 2017 at 15:35 | comment | added | T.E.D.♦ | @SteveBird - It indeed might be. However, its certainly not an entirely implausible story, not really hurting anything, and its a good story so we are generally willing to accept it anyway. Robert Whul's Liberty Valence Principle applies here. | |
| Mar 29, 2017 at 14:40 | history | edited | T.E.D.♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 29, 2017 at 14:12 | comment | added | Santiago | I disagree with this answer, basically because on that time in Greece the cavalry didn't exist, so it was normal for greeks to use humans to carry messages. | |
| Mar 29, 2017 at 13:58 | comment | added | Steve Bird | The Wikipedia page on Pheidippides suggests that the story might be a "romantic invention". | |
| Mar 29, 2017 at 12:32 | history | answered | Phillip Siebold | CC BY-SA 3.0 |