tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4019345462788575293.post484560633532045360..comments2017-06-07T03:26:23.506-07:00Comments on The Might of Mega Fauna: Reasons for Mass Extinction: With Numerous Factors being Responsible for Megafaunal decline, why was Africa least affected?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05269454489221279735noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4019345462788575293.post-10715683067485272832013-01-08T07:13:28.714-08:002013-01-08T07:13:28.714-08:00Hey Li,
Interesting point! Yes and No. I believe ...Hey Li,<br /><br />Interesting point! Yes and No. I believe that African hunters had the ability to evolve and become better hunters, but there was no need to. Unlike other continents, predators (hunters) and prey (megafauna) understood one another. Co-evolution enabled the survival of megafuna alongside humans. As mentioned above, Africa contained an abundance of megafauna largely due to favorable climatic conditions. This ensured the survival of megafauna, allowing them to maintain high population abundances. In a continent which has an abundance of megafauna, there would be no need to kill more, and so there was no need to evolve to become better hunters. The stability of the climate also ensured less sever glaciations/inter-glacials, this also reinforces evidence to suggest that there was no need to improve hunting styles. In comparison, the rapidly changing climatic conditions of North America might explain why Clovis hunters evolved, and consequently had more sophisticated hunting tools. Whilst this may be the case, I think that through time, improved hunting methods in Africa were inevitable. There would have always been a need to improve efficiency in hunting, which might account for the occurrence of wild pig remains. <br /><br />Hope this helps<br /><br />Josh Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05269454489221279735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4019345462788575293.post-39715306568694873092012-12-16T09:01:44.916-08:002012-12-16T09:01:44.916-08:00Hi Josh,
You mentioned that the people in Africa...Hi Josh, <br /><br />You mentioned that the people in Africa were less sophisticated hunters than Clovis hunters in North America. Do you think that they might have evolved to become better hunters? <br /><br />There is evidence of increased hunting sophistication in Africa's homo sapiens during the late Pleistocene. For example, studies of archaeological sites of earlier humans have found that eland (a type of ungulate) remains occur more frequently. Within the archaeological sites of humans who lived in the late Pleistocene/Holocene period (but under similar environmental conditions), remains of wild pigs, which were more dangerous to hunt and therefore required more sophisticated hunting techniques such as traps for example, were more prevalent than those of eland. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382810622922230501noreply@blogger.com