But, wait! I was always told the dodo died out because of evil white men from Europe ate them!
That was later. Apparently, there was more than one opportunity to attempt the destruction of a species.
Those ancient SUVs (OxCarts) were extremely dangerous, you know. :)
Apparently a lot of them died because of that crisis 4200 years ago, but enough lived so man could have the final pleasure of killing them to extinction. I wonder if that boloid strike crater in the Iraq Marshes that is about 4,000 years old had anything to do with it. A number of middle east civilizations had serious problems at that time or were replaced by other groups. Egypt, Assyrians, Hittites, etc.