Ancient survival hunting vs leisure hunting
As farming & herding started, ancient era's survival hunting trying to feed the entire tribe disappeared. Leisure hunting is different from the ancient hunting like how fishing with a fishing rod is different from the actual fishing done by the fishers at seas. For fishing, both survival version (life occupation) & leisure version (hobby) are going on today. For hunting, only the leisure version exists today as the ancient survival version was dropped after farming & herding got started.
The main difference is that leisure hunting uses only bow or gun (other than multi-purposed hunting knife) whilst ancient survival hunting used any weapon including melee weapons which were used both for throwing & for melee usage such as slashing & plunging. Melee weapons were used in survival hunting even after bows were invented (in fact, up to the bronze age). [1]
Quoting from BBC on professor Trenton Holliday, "professor Trenton Holliday can identify a clue in the BBC Neanderthal - he was much stronger on the right side than on the left, and his right forearm was particularly powerful, demonstrating a very powerful grip. To see how this muscle development might have related to hunting, Professor Steve Churchill, from Duke University, US, carried out another experiment. By fitting a metal pole with stress sensors, he could determine what force each arm was delivering when the pole was thrust into a pad. It turns out that this action could explain the muscle development identified in the skeleton. So Neanderthal was an ambush hunter; waiting in a forest for his prey to stray close, and then attacking with a thrusting spear. Neanderthal was possibly the most carnivorous form of human ever to have lived." [2]
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