Interesting that they had all these large mammals in southern Mexico but not so much by the time the Spanish got there. There were deer in a few places and sheep in some, but for the most part, meat was hard to come by. It is postulated that a reason for all the sacrifices at the Aztec temples was for meat—the meat went straight to the people of the city to keep them happy. Kind of like a Mexican version of bread and circuses. The people of Mexico are generally very small and their bodies are made for low caloric intake, which is why they tend to get large in a modern diet.
Anyway, too bad for them that giant sloths and elephants didn’t survive the end of the ice age.
Not sure what that means. But, the modern diet harms most people today. Most of that problem is sugar. Sugar keeps the hardest working Mexican fat, as it will for anybody.
First of all the catastrophe that biblical scholars referred to as being about 14,000ya was probably the same catastrophe, that Sunken Civ has frequently posted the book by Firestone et al to illustrate. That event destroyed the Clovis culture, and killed so many large mammals that only small numbers survived for long afterward and probably died off from having too few members left to breed. About a century before Cortez showed up in Mexico, a chief advisor told his ruler that they should make their neighbors be their bread. Thus wars were fought against neighboring tribes and captive warriors “honored” by being sacrificed ritually and then eaten. The tortilla is the “bread” of Mexico, and in Aztec (Nahuatl) is tlascalli. Cortez met a neighboring tribe called the Tlascallans who contributed thousands of warriors to help Cortez cut off the “bread” supply. I don’t know which came first, the name for bread or the name for the tribe. In addition Aztecs ate turkey (guajalote), ducks, fish, frogs, and bugs.