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Maybe it is less risky to hunt smaller prey and the humans that learned to do so were favored. Doesn't explain the decline in the large prey animals, but that m
by mhb 3y ago
Maybe it is less risky to hunt smaller prey and the humans that learned to do so were favored. Doesn't explain the decline in the large prey animals, but that might be coincidence.
- j16sdiz 3y ago> Doesn't explain the decline in the large prey animals, but that might be coincidence. It was "decrease in the quantity of bones of large prey (in settlement)". Could be they just stopped hunting large prey animals.
- dhosek 3y agoIt’s a pretty widespread coincidence. The extinction of Western Hemisphere megafauna correlates quite well with the arrival of humans. Megafauna that has survived to the present day has generally evolved in place with humans (viz, Africa and south Asia).