Posted on 10/31/2021 5:48:58 AM PDT by BenLurkin
They didn’t even have horses till the Spaniards arrived in the 1500s. I find the early history fascinating, and the Indians were an amazing people, but there is so much nonsense being put out there in recent years. The sources I’ve read put the numbers no higher than several hundred thousand at best before European contact
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The American horse was wiped out along with the mega-fauna. Other than the sources you read, others have put their numbers in the several millions. Sites once considered home to a few dozen have been found by lidar to be very extensive, with populations in the thousands, even hundreds of thousands. No I do not keep links ; google, bind, duck are your new friends.
The “American” horse wasn’t something to be ridden, the entire Plains Indian culture revolving around the horse started after the introduction of the Spanish bloodlines.
I know it’s popular now to talk about millions and millions of Indians living peacefully in harmony with nature and the rest of it until the evil Whitey showed up, but it just isn’t even remotely plausible much less possible.
That was 12 thousand years prior when the American horse roam the land.
There never was a peaceful time in the Americas with constant warfare, taking of slaves etc, plus massive floods along the Mississippi and elsewhere. The Mound Builders were the most prolific in east and central US, but they were likely wiped out by the invading Lenape.
“No I wasn’t, but I did see that G.Washington used them to terrify the Red Coats at the Battle of Trenton.”
Silly, Washington didn’t use Woolly Mammoths on the Redcoats. He used Sabre Toothed Tigers.
“No I wasn’t, but I did see that G.Washington used them to terrify the Red Coats at the Battle of Trenton.”
Silly, Washington didn’t use Woolly Mammoths on the Redcoats. He used Sabre Toothed Tigers.
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Recent evidence is that he had a few Woolly Mammoths at the Battle of Trenton, but the poor elephants were unvaccinated and died of the flu before they could be used elsewhere, leaving G.Washington at a disadvantage with the only the smilodons and short-faced bears at the Battle of Appomattox.
Well, it is a wonder how he won that war after all with such limited resources.
Well, it is a wonder how he won that war after all with such limited resources.
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Yes the loss of the Woolly Mammoths to the flu was a blow to G. Washington’s forces, but the few remaining Triceratops pulled off a big win at the Battle of Okinawa
It was a good thing they were great swimmers! They did lose some to the megalodons though.
It was a good thing they were great swimmers! They did lose some to the megalodons though.
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That’s what happens when some one overloads the Megs. They get hungry and you can either let them go or watch them devour your troops. Ocean crossing is a tough one, especially back in those days.
It was fortunate that the Japanese T. Rex units came down with the Beijing Flu just as G. Washington’s exhausted troops landed. That’s when the famous painting of “Washington Crossing The Pacific” was painted by a local commercial fisherman, put out of work by the evil Japanese environmental wackos.
...collection and analysis of 535 samples of sediment and permafrost from Siberia, Canada, Alaska and Scandinavia have yielded evidence to suggest that mammoths had still been roaming the wilds of mainland Siberia as recently as 3,900 years ago.
Adding, but no ping. That site sucks, more clickbait recycled news.
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