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Ok - so how does this account for the hunter gatherer cultures in North America and Africa into modern times? Bison do not count as small game. Also, if you ki
by sgt101 6y ago
Ok - so how does this account for the hunter gatherer cultures in North America and Africa into modern times? Bison do not count as small game.
Also, if you kill an elephant how much of that beast can you (and all your tribe) hope to eat?
I'm not even sure if this is a causal inversion or just a co-incidence; humans may well have had nothing to do with big game until they were anatomically modern. Where is the evidence that Little Foot and Lucy killed anything bigger than a mouse?
- Schmools 6y agoThere's actually some evidence (though also some debate) that early human hunting led to the extinction of megafauna in North America in the late Pleistocene age. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/306/5693/70.full https://science.sciencemag.org/content/306/5693/70.full
- sgt101 6y agoBut these were anatomically modern people - the North American Megafauna were around 50k years ago... There is no evolutionary pressure there!
- Schmools 6y agoYeah, I realized that as soon as I posted, an interesting paper nonetheless. I thought I had also read a paper discussing protohuman hunting practices earlier in the year but I couldn't find it here. Certainly anatomically modern early humans had much more of an impact on our environment then we often give them credit for.