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Interesting, but it raises the question of why the global extinction didn't happen before. Was there a sudden improvement in human hunting techniques? Or did th
by woodandsteel 8y ago
Interesting, but it raises the question of why the global extinction didn't happen before. Was there a sudden improvement in human hunting techniques? Or did they stay the same, but the added factor of climate change made it possible for the two of them together to do it, or what?
- autokad 8y agothe last ice age peaked about 21k years ago and ended about 11.5k years ago. Humans have been around for about 200k years, so it probably took some time 'getting on its feet' and reaching critical mass with the ending of the ice age to cause a global impact. i myself do think we played a larger role. Woolly mammoths actually survived till about 4000 years ago by being in the most remote islands possible. To me, its like something you would see if there was some sort of zombie apocalypse and the last humans only survived in some remote island, far far away from land. Eventually, humans did reach that island, to which the mammoth immediately died off. Though climate change probably played a role, and could have been the primary one, I don't feel it was.