Late Pleistocene Western Camel (Camelops Hesternus) Hunting in Southwestern Canada
| Autor: | Paul McNeil, Shayne Tolman, L. V. Hills, Brian Kooyman |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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010506 paleontology
Archeology History 060102 archaeology Pleistocene biology Museology Climate change Extinct species 06 humanities and the arts biology.organism_classification 01 natural sciences Archaeology Camelops hesternus Archaeological evidence Geography Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) 0601 history and archaeology Mammal 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Mammoth |
| Zdroj: | American Antiquity. 77:115-124 |
| ISSN: | 2325-5064 0002-7316 |
| DOI: | 10.7183/0002-7316.77.1.115 |
| Popis: | Late Pleistocene large mammal extinctions in North America have been attributed to a number of factors or combination of factors, primarily climate change and human hunting, but the relative roles of these factors remain much debated. Clo-vis-period hunters exploited species such as mammoth, but many now extinct species such as camels were seemingly not hunted. Archaeological evidence from the Wally’s Beach site in southern Canada, including stone tools and butchered bone, provide the first evidence that Clovis people hunted North American camels. Archaeologists generally dismiss human hunting as a significant contributor to Pleistocene extinctions in North America, but Wally’s Beach demonstrates that human hunting was more inclusive than assumed and we must continue to consider hunting as a factor in Pleistocene extinctions. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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