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I have wondered about one of the premises of that book, the lack of animals that could be domesticated in the Americas, it may have been that the opportunity to
by Herodotus38 6y ago
I have wondered about one of the premises of that book, the lack of animals that could be domesticated in the Americas, it may have been that the opportunity to domesticate them was lost after a certain amount of time passed and they went extinct due to hunting or climate changes.
Recently there has been found in Brazil huge amounts of rock art from prehistoric Ice age civilization, that showed that they drew pictures of ice age horses and a now extinct camelid species called a paleolama.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/nov/29/sistine-chapel-of-the-ancients-rock-art-discovered-in-remote-amazon-forest https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/nov/29/sistine-chap...
- k__ 6y agoThe book mentioned something about humans hunting potentially domesticatable animals too extinction around the time of the ice age. The climate wasn't good enough for agriculture yet, so people had to rely more on hunting and gathering.