I knew they were tough! http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/Introduction/introduction.php
Posted on 04/12/2010 7:40:42 AM PDT by decimon
Study suggests that Ice Age climate change did not pose significant challenges to first Americans
Paleoindian groups* occupied North America throughout the Younger Dryas interval, which saw a rapid return to glacial conditions approximately 11,000 years ago. Until now, it has been assumed that cooling temperatures and their impact on communities posed significant adaptive challenges to those groups. David Meltzer from the Southern Methodist University in Dallas, USA, and Vance Holliday from the University of Arizona in Tucson, USA, suggest otherwise in their review of climatic and environmental records from this time period in continental North America, published in Springer’s Journal of World Prehistory. From their analysis, they conclude that on the Great Plains and in the Rocky Mountains, conditions were in reality less extreme and therefore may not have measurably added to the challenge routinely faced by Paleoindian groups, who during this interval, successfully dispersed across the diverse habitats of Late Glacial North America.
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From their analysis, they conclude that on the Great Plains and in the Rocky Mountains, conditions were in reality less extreme and therefore may not have measurably added to the challenge routinely faced by Paleoindian groups, who during this interval, successfully dispersed across the diverse habitats of Late Glacial North America.
Snappy ping.
I wonder if the demise of the mastadon, was really this people’s reaction to the global cooling. They could have considered this ‘suv’ of the plains and mountains as being the cause of the global cooling.
I knew they were tough! http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/Introduction/introduction.php
It’s no accident that the top two months for births are August and October.
So, stone age humans can deal with major glaciation, but modern ones can’t handle one degree temperature rise?
the land bridge melted and they became stranded in North America.
Maybe we can confuse the libs and tell them the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria were "green powered." Christopher Columbus came here to enforce Climate Change laws.
Your reply needs a qualification. Some of them were tough. New Yawkers an fond of telling the world how really tough they are. Wait a minute. They got off the boat, then stayed in New York City? The tough ones struck out to the hinterlands. New Yawkers aren’t all that tough.
We're not as tough as they were. We're planning on changing nothing, adding up the costs of that extra degree, ignoring the benefits, and then drowning when the oceans rise 20 feet in a mere century and our homes are unprepared for that flash flood.
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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They were along with their Boston cousins the loyalists and most still are
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