[Burkeman1]

They wouldn't spear it. Mammoth hunts were organized and they followed herds. They killed them by digging trapps- and hearding them off cliffs. They had camps nearby to process the meat and store the excess in storage pits. Hunting smaller and faster game that don't heard in great numbers (like deer) would not have been done and most likely wasn't done until the mega fauna had been hunted out. East Coast modern American Indians didn't rely on deer hunting but had agriculture and practiced slash and burn farming when the first Europeons arrived. Deer hunting was supplimental- not a primary food source.

[merak]

They wouldn't spear it. Mammoth hunts were organized and they followed herds. They killed them by digging trapps- and hearding them off cliffs. They had camps nearby to process the meat and store the excess in storage pits. Hunting smaller and faster game that don't heard in great numbers (like deer) would not have been done and most likely wasn't done until the mega fauna had been hunted out.

Sorry, that simply isn't believable. Even bison are significantly easier to kill than a mammoth would be, and there was never a shortage of them. You'd have to come up with some motive for hunting mammoths other than food.