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Humans Did Not Kill Off Mammoths; Comet, Climate Change Helped, Studies Show
Indian Country Today ^ | June 13, 2012 | ICTMN Staff

Posted on 06/12/2012 7:03:32 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

Although human hunting played a part in the demise of the woolly mammoth about 10,000 years ago, homo sapiens were but bit players in a global drama involving climate change, comet impact and a multitude of other factors, scientists have found in separate studies.

Previous research had blamed their demise on tribal hunting. But new findings “pretty much dispel the idea of any one factor, any one event, as dooming the mammoths,” said Glen MacDonald, a researcher and geographer at the University of California in Los Angeles, to LiveScience.com.

In other words, hunting didn’t help, but it was not instrumental. The ancestors didn’t do it.

So what did? After thriving for 250,000 years, the huge mammals lingered on in dwarf form in the Arctic Ocean’s Wrangel Island until 3,700 years ago. Between 20,000 and 25,000 years ago, LiveScience said, the animals declined during the worst of the last major ice age, though they started to multiply in warmer interior Siberia.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; clovis; clovisimpact; godsgravesglyphs; impact; mammoth; mammoths; mastodon; mastodons; paleontology; siberia; wrangelisland
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To: djf

human hunter time could have been way more effective against smaller prey.
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Teach man to fish and he could maybe feed his family for a day.
Teach man to hunt down, sautee, tenderize and deep fry a Wolly Mammoth and he can feed his village for a month.


21 posted on 06/12/2012 7:32:44 PM PDT by xrmusn (6/98 Let's start from scratch by voting ALL incumbents out.)
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To: muawiyah

There is no evidence the mammoths went in one big blast or any impact caused any long term or global impact.

All these big animals went extinct over an extended period of time. What shows man did it was the last remaining populations of these animals were in the remote areas where man was last to show up.

So either man did it or by an amazing coincidence where ever man showed up the climate changed and a comet hit.


22 posted on 06/12/2012 7:34:39 PM PDT by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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To: qam1
There were 20 some glacial cycles (look at the Antarctice ice cores and the deposits of gravel off shore the St. Lawrence and other rivers).

That gives us 19 interglacials (10,000 years or longer) and an unknown number of interstadials (shorter than 10,000 years).

Mankind was present for at least four of the interglacials and many of the interstadials. The Mastadons thrived. The tigers thrived!

This latest situation, the Younger Dryass, was unique ~ the other periods of glaciation did not not stop and start up right away. They just stopped.

We are still in an ice age. But there are a lot fewer big cats around to stop our advances. Humans didn't kill off the cats ~ hunger killed them!

23 posted on 06/12/2012 7:42:41 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: hinckley buzzard
"It is suspected to account for the sudden loss of mammalian life in the eurasian continent."

There just doesn't seem to be a pattern to the extinctions at all - camels and horses (in N. America), but not deer or elk; short-faced bears, but not grizzly bears; dire wolves, but not grey wolves. The "mega-fauna" were wiped out, but the run-of-the-mill fauna weren't.

24 posted on 06/12/2012 7:43:24 PM PDT by Flag_This (Real presidents don't bow.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Why would a warming climate kill off mammoths when their close elephant relatives survived just fine in Africa?
Surely warmer climate means more food, not less.

25 posted on 06/12/2012 7:45:04 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: hinckley buzzard

That’s something like 500 million years ago. We are focusing on 12000 years ago.


26 posted on 06/12/2012 7:46:05 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Free ThinkerNY

What a good job.
Get a grant to study if rocks be come sand.
File a report.
Get the money.
Move on.

We are stupid.


27 posted on 06/12/2012 7:46:28 PM PDT by hadaclueonce (you are paying 12% more for fuel because of Ethanol. Smile big Corn Lobby,)
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To: qam1

You kidding right? Cause otherwise you missed the part about the comet....and of course the ever problematic issue of pole shifts


28 posted on 06/12/2012 7:49:09 PM PDT by Nifster
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The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes: Flood, Fire, and Famine in the History of Civilization The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes:
Flood, Fire, and Famine
in the History of Civilization

by Richard Firestone,
Allen West, and
Simon Warwick-Smith


29 posted on 06/12/2012 7:53:28 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: baynut; 75thOVI; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; ...
Thanks Free ThinkerNY.



30 posted on 06/12/2012 7:53:42 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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31 posted on 06/12/2012 8:01:37 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
The article is total BS.

They need to get off the idea that this earth is tens of thousands or millions of years old. It simply is not, as scientists have proven time and again.

The problem is their theory of evolution, which never happened. All skeletons of species have appeared fully formed and no intermediary skeletons have ever been found, despite the desperate search for them.

32 posted on 06/12/2012 8:01:52 PM PDT by Ron C.
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; ...

 GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother & Ernest_at_the_Beach
Thanks Free ThinkerNY.

To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list.


33 posted on 06/12/2012 8:02:45 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv

WOW, thanks for that list of posts!


34 posted on 06/12/2012 8:05:02 PM PDT by Ron C.
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To: muawiyah

But it was only the last ice age that man kind started to spread around the world.

I will give you another example, Australia

The Mega-Fauna there went extinct 50,000 years ago.

Why did they go extinct there 50,000 years ago instead of the 5,000- 10,000 here in North America?

Simple because that’s when man showed up there.

Same with The Pacific Islands 30,000 years ago, Madagascar 2000 years ago, New Zealand 1500 years ago.

When ever ancient man showed up, the Mega Fauna went extinct.


35 posted on 06/12/2012 8:06:11 PM PDT by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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To: wastedyears
It’s a good thing some government outlawed those prehistoric SUVs. Why, they almost killed humans, too.

36 posted on 06/12/2012 8:07:02 PM PDT by Bratch
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To: qam1

No, in fact, they did not. That peculiarity has been the reason so many have been looking for a cause for so many years, and why the blame has been put on mythical, nearly superhuman hunters.


37 posted on 06/12/2012 8:13:18 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: djf

/bingo


38 posted on 06/12/2012 8:13:25 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: baynut

Thanks baynut!
Study Jointly Led by UCSB Researcher Finds New Evidence Supporting Theory of Extraterrestrial Impact
University of California, Santa Barbara
Division of Institutional Advancement
June 11, 2012
An 18-member international team of researchers that includes James Kennett, professor of earth science at UC Santa Barbara, has discovered melt-glass material in a thin layer of sedimentary rock in Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Syria. According to the researchers, the material -- which dates back nearly 13,000 years -- was formed at temperatures of 1,700 to 2,200 degrees Celsius (3,100 to 3,600 degrees Fahrenheit), and is the result of a cosmic body impacting Earth.

These new data are the latest to strongly support the controversial Younger Dryas Boundary (YDB) hypothesis, which proposes that a cosmic impact occurred 12,900 years ago at the onset of an unusual cold climatic period called the Younger Dryas. This episode occurred at or close to the time of major extinction of the North American megafauna, including mammoths and giant ground sloths; and the disappearance of the prehistoric and widely distributed Clovis culture. The researchers' findings appear today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

39 posted on 06/12/2012 8:13:44 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv

Not to mention that almost all of the mammoth slayer stories seem to depend on this “cliff” that they somehow force the mammoth over.

I’ve been to the midwest, the Great Plains. There are places there where the nearest “cliff” big enough to stun a mammoth is probably more than 100 miles away!


40 posted on 06/12/2012 8:27:52 PM PDT by djf ("There are more old drunkards than old doctors." - Benjamin Franklin)
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