Comment by IAmBroom
7 months ago
> it's absurd to think natives or aborigines wiped out the megafauna.
Aside from the plausible scenario of driving whole herds off cliffs (because it was safer than trying to separate one or two from the herd).
7 months ago
> it's absurd to think natives or aborigines wiped out the megafauna.
Aside from the plausible scenario of driving whole herds off cliffs (because it was safer than trying to separate one or two from the herd).
Wasn't that a relatively current thing? When europeans reintroduced horses to the americas? Even there, tens of millions of buffalo still remained until machine guns and railroads.