South America's prehistoric people spread like 'invasive species'

Reuters ^ | Wednesday, April 6, 2016 | Will Dunham (ed by Sandra Maler)

[SunkenCiv]

Later Andean farmers adapted their mountainous environment for agriculture through terraced farming shown in this undated handout photo released on April 6, 2016 by Amy Goldberg.

[SunkenCiv]

Nah.

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The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes: Flood, Fire, and Famine in the History of Civilization by Richard Firestone, Allen West, and Simon Warwick-Smith

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[SunkenCiv]

• [earlier on FR] Ancient DNA shows European wipe-out of early Americans
• [external link] The dark side of religion: how ritual human sacrifice helped create unequal societies
• [external link] Researchers link climate changes, Pueblo social disruption

[PROCON]

Was this invasive species White?

[nevergore]

Trump needs to build that wall!!!
We’ve only been waiting 14,000 years!!!
Keep out the hordes!

[Red Badger]

....and still are................

[SunkenCiv]

This is just another revival of the "superhunter" model to try to handwave away the precipitous extinction of megafauna in the Americas.

[SunkenCiv]

;’)

[Da Coyote]

What??

They depleted resources and ruined things?

Without petrochemicals, SUVs, and suberbs?

Without capitalism, and the nasty old USA?

Nope, gotta be a lie.

[cincinnati65]

There we go again. Us, pesky humans being all up in the world, ruining this utopian paradise where the Loch Ness "Monster" (amphibiphobes) and unicorns are free to share their sexual preference for each other, and breathe pure non-man-made carbon emission air, while they eat a healthy vegan diet.

We are all such horrible "people".

[Buttons12]

“Invasive species.”

That’s nature for you. Stuff happens.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Evolution is goo except when humans do it.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Evolution is good except when humans do it.

[nevergore]

An he would have made the Prehistoric people pay for it!

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Historian Charles Mann hinted at this in his book “1491.”

[Bernard Marx]

Petrochemicals were definitely deadly for North American megafauna like dire wolves, sabre-tooth tigers, etc. For proof all you have to do is visit the nasty capitalistic La Brea Tar Pits and fossil museum in Los Angeles. I’m surprised savage, predatory human hunters left any of their prey alive and able to get trapped in the tar ooze. But a huge number was able to die without human “assistance.”

[truth_seeker]

One million (or fewer) primitive people exhausted the natural resources of South America?

I find that difficult to believe, so I don’t.

[G Larry]

Ahh....the Dirt-Firsters.....

People are vermin, to be banished and stricken from the earth....

Mankind was created to have dominion over the earth and these population control folks are simply elitist eugenicists.

[BenLurkin]

Apparently the author of this piece forgot they are human.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

So.... they acted just like people every where else on the planet.

Amazing!