Humans to Blame for Ice Age Extinctions, Study Says

National Geographic ^ | August 10, 2005 | Hillery Mayell

[shuckmaster]

We're supposed to believe humans came to America 11,000 years ago & hunted everything on two continents to extinction in just 500 years? Give me a break. When humans came into Europe 50,000 years ago, they found goats, pigs, cows, horses, and sheep. They couldn't hunt them to extinction in the 45,000 years before they finally began domesticating them.
Humans came into North America 22,000 years ago prior to the beginning of the ice age 20,000ya. All you have to do is look a layer under your Clovis to find them. No doubt the humans were happy to have a few easy meals when the spreading ice sheets pushed the big game to them but it was primarily the change of habitat that did them in.

[JohnnyM]

yes, mitochondrial eve was without a mate for many thousands of years waiting for Y-Chromosome Adam to appear. Very logical.

JM

[Right Wing Professor]

yes, mitochondrial eve was without a mate for many thousands of years waiting for Y-Chromosome Adam to appear. Very logical.

Please read the article again. See the bit that says "ME lived with many other humans (men and women); she was certainly not alone"?

ME and YcA are the matrilineal and patrilineal ancestor of all humans and all men respectively. That does not mean they ever met, or even lived at the same time. After all, your mother and paternal great grandfather may never have met, either.

[TASMANIANRED]

Agenda science is bogus.

[GOP_1900AD]

Bull pucky ..... there were NOT enough humans around during the past couple of Ice advances to have such an effect. At one point, there may have been as few as 10000 people world wide.

[justshutupandtakeit]

That would be his early ancestor Ugh Bush.

[ZULU]

Or just saying "Burp!!"

[ZULU]

POPPYCOCK!!!????

It takes a lot less effort to kill ONE 2,000 pound sloth, than 2,000 ONE Pound Rabbits!!!

[ZULU]

"Well to tell you the truth, if I was alive at that time I would have been getting all the men in the tribe together to figure out the best way to exterminate animals like the short faced bear, a bear who makes the grizzly look like a teddy bear, the sabre tooth and other predators that must have made life for humans just peachy."

Besides, they tasted great at a barbecue!!

[ZULU]

Maybe they bring back Ronald Reagan and Teddy Roosevelt - we could use them now.

[ZULU]

Precisley.

They had an article recently about a human footprint found in Mexico that was dated to 40,000 years ago. It was preserved in lava.

The footprint was headed towards the Rio Grande.

[Doogle]

It takes a lot less effort to kill ONE 2,000 pound sloth, than 2,000 ONE Pound Rabbits!!!


...and just how sure are you that there weren't any 2000lb
rabbits back then?

Doogle

[Bar-Face]

I think I would take this study with a grain of salt (& pepper & barbecue sauce)
It is a well known fact that the Native Americans were "at one with nature" and never ever killed more than they could use. (Disregard that herd of Mammoths they found at the base of cliff in Colorado). it is another well known fact the Europeans and their descendent's are the greatest pillagers of the planet in the history of the planet. So therefore if the prehistoric animals were hunted to extinction, it must have been someone of European ancestry. But wait! the Europeans did not get here until about 1000 years ago. This creates a problem.
Yep it must have been an ice age. An ice age caused by those dastardly northern Europeans and their fire and heating their caves. There it is. The whole durn study proved wrong in just a few sentences.

[ZULU]

Good point.

[taxesareforever]

The footprint was headed towards the Rio Grande.

The beginning of illegal immigration.

[taxesareforever]

...and just how sure are you that there weren't any 2000lb rabbits back then?

I don't know about rabbits but I am sure there were 2000 lb moles. We have mountains to prove it.

[taxesareforever]

eenie meenie minee moe,etc.

[Plutarch]

Maybe they bring back Ronald Reagan and Teddy Roosevelt - we could use them now.

No doubt about Ronaldus Maximus. I'd worry about Rooseveltian RINO tendencies, although he would be just the guy to take on the Jihadists.

[Doogle]

I don't know about rabbits but I am sure there were 2000 lb moles. We have mountains to prove it.


....ahh....ah.....errrrr....OK

Doogle

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

Not to mention that the ice age ended in the first place due to global warming caused by human industrialization and fossil fuel burning...]

oh, wait a minute...