After the Ice:
A Global Human History
20,000-5000 BC
by Steven Mithen
And, to think, all this time I thought it was the fault of Republicans.
If this had not happened would Buffalo be the choice of Thanksgiving dinners instead of that smelly bird we consumed today...
Thanks for the ping. I never thought it was due to humans...there weren't enough. I have toyed with the idea that it could have been a virus/germ brought in by the humans though.
Evidence Aquits Clovis People Of Ancient Killings, Archaeologists Say
University Of Washington ^ | 2-25-2003 | Joel Schwartz
Posted on 02/25/2003 4:46:54 PM PST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/851809/posts
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George Bush killed all them all off!
Net enough people to warm the global Eh?
80 million Buffalo have disappeared since the "White" man came to North America. 100 million Beef Cattle have taken their place. Why? Beef taste better!
It was because all those mean-spirited human hunters were Republicans - and never bothered to go see the "Day After Yesterday", down at the CaveCity Performance Art Theatre.
One would think the Bison is extinct, and somehow, it was the fault of the Ice Age..
Quite to the contrary, the Bison was doing quite well when european colonists reached american shores..
In fact, early americans documented complaints of bison as far east as New York, and having their buildings knocked down by bison that were attempting to "get rid of an itch"..
The bison is (was) not just a plains critter..
They also populated forested areas, and were wide-spread across the continent.. ( although they probably didn't do too well in desert areas of the southwest, they were also there, in smaller numbers.. )
The position that the Ice Age created a "decline" in the population is basically true, but hardly monumental news..
A great deal of the animal's grazing range was covered in ice.. the resultant reduction in grazing further resulted in a reduction in population..
The article is interesting in that it uses DNA testing to document "which" bison strains survived to the present, but actually, IMHO, really doesn't advance science by reaching conclusions as stated in the title..
This article is total BS
After the Ice:
A Global Human History
20,000-5000 BC
by Steven Mithen
PETA is deeply saddened, those damn early meat eaters didn't do it.
