This is not news, and I’m unclear why it is presented as such.
There is a reason the “Old World” was ... old ... when the North American continent was wide open and practically empty, and that reason was an Ice Age. Glaciers covered much of what is now the US with ice up to a mile thick only 12,000 years ago.
A successful wooly Mammoth hunt would have been like hitting the Lottery. Lots of meat for the whole tribe ready for preservation. Probably pretty tasty, too. This easy pickens food source would have been tempered by other species that are now extinct as well, notably the Saber Toothed Tiger and the Cave Bear. Either would have resulted in a Bad Day back in the day. They are all extinct now probably due to hunting pressure.
North American continent was wide open and practically empty ... they are all extinct now probably due to hunting pressure.
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Empty? there were millions and millions of animals and gigantic flocks of birds; many inhabited sites lend the human population may have been in the millions.
Glaciers only covered the top tier states and north. The rest of the US was ice free. They animals were killed off not by hunting, but by the 10,800 BC comet strikes that lasted 100 years and burned of 4% of the world’s vegetation, leaving the several foot thick Black Mat earthen layer, as it is called.
But a variation of this story did appear 10 or more years ago, without the pyramid angle.
There’s a cryptid video and as all cryptid videos grainy and somewhat indistinct (probably been debunked!) of a mammoth crossing a river\creek\stream in Siberia. Supposedly taken by a Soviet soldier in roughly the WWII Era.
Not advocating its real, but there’s still surprising amount of uncharted area in Northern Siberia. I saw a documentary done recently by a Russian geologist who while doing exploratory work encountered a small clan of natives who hadn’t heard of WWII or even that the Czar was gone.
“”They are all extinct now probably due to hunting pressure.””
I don’t see hunting pressure as a reason for their extinction. At the time of their extinction there wasn’t much human presence or activity in North America.
It allowed lethal force to be applied from a distance of 50 to 60 feet. With fellow hunters and a pack of dogs to provide assistance, an unbeatable combination.
They are all extinct now probably due to hunting pressure.The trees killed them.