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Re: history questions: meat, siberian land bridge, horses in the Americas
jimamy@primenet.com
21 Dec 1996 11:31:02 -0700
W Letendre <wjl@zipnet.net> wrote:
>Horse, mammoth, camel, a few species of sloth, all became extinct in America about
>11 KYBP, at roughly the same time as Clovis spear points began appearing in
>America. This has been interpreted as evidence that the arrival of man in New World
>led to these species becoming extinct through human predation, just as ancient
>Polynesians killed off the Moa, but this remains an area of considerable
>controversy.
>
> W Letendre
I have heard of evidence regarding mammoth and sloth kills. I'm just
wondering if there is any direct evidence of horse kills (or camel kills
for that matter).
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