Gored ox ping.
At that time the North Shore oil wells were being drilled and the Eskimos had a difficult familial problem. The lease money allowed the to buy snowmobiles. They no longer needed their huskies! Keep them as pets or eat them. In most cases they had been with these Eskimo families for many decades so they decided to feed them!
The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes:
Flood, Fire, and Famine
in the History of Civilization
by Richard Firestone,
Allen West, and
Simon Warwick-Smith
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Thanks decimon.A team of scientists has discovered that the drastic decline in Arctic musk ox populations that began roughly 12,000 years ago was due to a warming climate rather than to human hunting.To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. |
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Hmmm, do you suppose it was the environmental warming combined with the decline of ferocious animals like dire wolves, sabre-toothed tigers, etc. that allowed humans to move into these new territories? But that's probably a politically incorrect view.