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I highly doubt bow and arrows have to do with this depletion, Australian Aboriginals were highly highly effective hunters with spears woomeras and boomerangs an
by inference-lord 3y ago
I highly doubt bow and arrows have to do with this depletion, Australian Aboriginals were highly highly effective hunters with spears woomeras and boomerangs and there was an abundance of wild life around in their presence.
- hnfong 3y agoBut there weren't a billion of them around. FWIW, quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_longbow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_longbow : "The trade of yew wood to England for longbows was such that it depleted the stocks of yew over a huge area."
- Jensson 3y agoAustralian Aboriginals didn't have bows so not sure how that proves anything.
- inference-lord 3y agoThey could've killed a lot of shit with similarly effective weaponry, if they wanted too, their culture wasn't into that. My proof is that they're the oldest surviving civilization on earth and lived mostly a hunter gatherer lifestyle without running out of food and requiring mass scale agriculture to survive.