14 DAY TRIAL // A 5,000-year-old trap that most likely served to capture leopards has recently been discovered in Israel's Negev Desert.
Archaeologists say that, as surprising as this may sound, the ancient trap is not all that different from others that have been used to keep predators in this part of the world away from domesticated sheep and goats over the past century.
Live Science tells us that, in order to set the trap, ancient people merely tied some meat to the end of a rope.
“When the carnivore pulls at the bait the rope is attached to a slab door and it just closes, so the animal is trapped inside this carnivore box trap,” researcher Naomi Porat further details.
The discovery of this trap proves that people living in the area some 6,000 years ago were well equipped to deal with carnivores that threatened their livestock.
What's more, the traps they developed were so effective that they remained pretty much unchanged for thousands of years.