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Gatos Loco <gatosloco@hotmail.com> wrote:
>On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 00:02:24 -0800, floyd@barrow.com (Floyd L.
>Davidson) wrote:
>>>
>>>AND...As far as hunting animals to extinction. I have seen evidence to
>>>support the facts. There is some evidence presented at the state
>>>historic museum in carson city Nevada.
>>
>>So name just one single animal that was hunted to extinction by
>>Native people.  Just one!
>
>There was a sloth like creature, and I can't remember it's name, that
>inhabited the plains  along the eastern slop of the Seirra that was
>hunted to extinction.
>
>Your earlie clovis remarks are well placed however you will recognize
>the significance of a clovis point being a big game tool as oppsed to
>say a bird point made for hunting small animals. However climate
>surely ushered the demise of many cretures.

So the evidence is that an animal went extinct, and there were
humans in North America at the same time.

That is no evidence at all.

In fact, I doubt there is any real evidence that said animal was
even hunted by humans!  The one and only large animal from that
period that we can be somewhat (but perhaps not very) certain
was hunted is the mammoth.  They've actually found one or two of
them with spear points embedded in them.  The others are purely
speculation...  (And when that speculation gets to the point of
claiming something was hunted to extinction it is much closer to
fabrication.)

Finding bones of an animal carved up in a cave does *not* equate
to proof that the animal was hunted and killed by humans.  It
merely proves that a dead specimen was carved up.

When relatively newer middens are excavated it is pretty easy to
determine what percentage of the diet certain animals provided.
Hence on Greenland 4000 years ago we know that Eskimos ate a lot
of seals, but not so many whales; and that in more recent times
they increased the number of whales taken.

But when looking at artifacts from 7 to 15 thousand years ago,
they are lucky to find a mere few identifiable bones, and it
generally does not present sufficient information to make the
same determinations.

As I said, there simply is no evidence that actually supports
a claim that Native Americans hunted even one single animal to
extinction.

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Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)                         floyd@barrow.com