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To: mwyounce
Wow.... interesting.

Try "wow, how insane!"

Try applying Occam's razor. What happened 13,000 years ago? The current "native-americans" who came from Mongolia arrived, and quickly hunted all the big game to extinction.

The same extinctions happened, at a different time, in Madagascar, when Asians arrived. So are we to believe, i.e., that two DIFFERENT supernovas can explain that extinction cycle?

Rubbish!!

19 posted on 10/17/2005 9:34:08 AM PDT by WL-law
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To: WL-law

My theory is that our ancestors combined the atlatl (100 yard range and good penetration but poor accuracy) with Clovis points (grooves hold the poison) and a simple poison like nicotine or aconite (from Monkshood flowers). Large herd critters like mammoth would be easily dispatched from a safe range and the tribe would feast for a week. Smaller, harder-to-hunt critters like elk and deer were spared.


75 posted on 10/17/2005 3:12:18 PM PDT by darth
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