Fetish?
Fetish - there is evidence on some skeletons that mastodons and mammoths that they were killed and butchered with tools. Therefore, man caused the extinction of these species. That simple induction appears to me to have a lot in common with a “fetish.”
The megafauna (Ground sloth, short nosed bear, sabre cat, dire wolf) extinction that coincided with the extinction of the mastodon and mammoth also coincides with increased human employment of agriculture.
Coincidence I am sure because man hunted the mammoth and mastodon to extinction, which must have caused the food chain to the megafauna carnivores to collapse and make them go extinct as well. It is all due to the actions of man (fetish) and not that the disappearance of megafauna carnivores allowed man to engage in activities outside of the tribe long enough to do things like tend crops.