Now to deal with the stupidity of the Left, exemplified by their romanticized version of the American Indian.
After slapping you around, educating you may be my second best enjoyment.
The Indians were the destroyers of the buffalo ....
1. "According to
the myth of the noble eco-savage, indigenous peoples live in such a sympathetic relationship with the eco system that they only kill for their immediate needs, and never on a scale likely to drive species to extinction.... In fact,
these ‘cultural mechanisms’ exist primarily in t
he minds of Western environmentalists.
It is difficult to find any evidence of them amongst the tribal peoples, either now or in the past.... The aim was to
kill as much as possible as quickly as possible, with the minimum risk to the hunter. There was
no concern for conserving future stocks, nor for taking only as much as was necessary to meet present needs."
Whelan, "Wild in the Woods: The Myth of the Noble Eco-Savage"
A favorite Indian device was the ‘jump’, which meant
stampeding herds of animalsover a cliff, so that the fall would kill them, described in "Playing God in Yellowstone," by Alston Chase.
"The Vore buffalo jump site in Wyoming...was used five times between 1550 and 1690, and holds the remains of 20,000 buffalo. That means 4,000 or more buffalo were killed each time the jump was used. Other buffalo jumps in the West display
the remains of as many as 300,000 buffalo. These sites were so numerous, in fact, and held such large deposits of bone, that for many years they were mined as a source of phosphorus for fertilizer!"
Frison, G.C., "Prehistoric Hunters of the High Plains," pp.239-44
Large amounts of
meat were left to rot and herds of animals were decimated, and sometimes driven to local extinction. Buffalo and antelope traps killed so many that it took the herds decades to recover.
And so...as the sun sets over this mysterious land, we say good-bye to the 'Noble Savage,' who is too busy to say good-bye.....
...he's busy
burning down forests, and destroying every animal he can find.
That's a creepy way of justifying genocide.
Answering only yes or no,
was the bison in danger of extinction before the Europeans had begun to populate North America?
Now to deal with the stupidity of the Left, exemplified by their romanticized version of the American Indian.
After slapping you around, educating you may be my second best enjoyment.
The Indians were the destroyers of the buffalo ....
1. "According to
the myth of the noble eco-savage, indigenous peoples live in such a sympathetic relationship with the eco system that they only kill for their immediate needs, and never on a scale likely to drive species to extinction.... In fact,
these ‘cultural mechanisms’ exist primarily in t
he minds of Western environmentalists.
It is difficult to find any evidence of them amongst the tribal peoples, either now or in the past.... The aim was to
kill as much as possible as quickly as possible, with the minimum risk to the hunter. There was
no concern for conserving future stocks, nor for taking only as much as was necessary to meet present needs."
Whelan, "Wild in the Woods: The Myth of the Noble Eco-Savage"
A favorite Indian device was the ‘jump’, which meant
stampeding herds of animalsover a cliff, so that the fall would kill them, described in "Playing God in Yellowstone," by Alston Chase.
"The Vore buffalo jump site in Wyoming...was used five times between 1550 and 1690, and holds the remains of 20,000 buffalo. That means 4,000 or more buffalo were killed each time the jump was used. Other buffalo jumps in the West display
the remains of as many as 300,000 buffalo. These sites were so numerous, in fact, and held such large deposits of bone, that for many years they were mined as a source of phosphorus for fertilizer!"
Frison, G.C., "Prehistoric Hunters of the High Plains," pp.239-44
Large amounts of
meat were left to rot and herds of animals were decimated, and sometimes driven to local extinction. Buffalo and antelope traps killed so many that it took the herds decades to recover.
And so...as the sun sets over this mysterious land, we say good-bye to the 'Noble Savage,' who is too busy to say good-bye.....
...he's busy
burning down forests, and destroying every animal he can find.
That's a creepy way of justifying genocide.
Answering only yes or no,
was the bison in danger of extinction before the Europeans had begun to populate North America?
No! But history revised by arrogant asshole like PC hope to convince the dumber members of our society that this is so
I'm regularly shocked to find fools like you who have accepted the indoctrination, and complain that those of us with the research on our side are the dumb ones.
Why haven't you quoted anything that I've posted and indicated where it is in error?
Because it is
linked, sourced, and supported.....and not in error.
The Indians slew every animal they could...and left the majority of the carcasses to rot.
Buffalo were the least of their victims.
Watch me rip you a new one AGAIN:
The extinction of the megafauna coincides with the time the first tribes inhabited the continent.
1. "Saber-toothed cats, American lions, woolly mammoths and
other giant creaturesonce roamed across the American landscape. However, at the end of the late Pleistocene about 12,000 years ago, these "megafauna" went extinct, a die-off called the Quaternary extinction."
Starvation Didn t Wipe Out Sabertooth Cats
2. "Prevailing ideas point to all Native Americans descending from ancient Siberians who moved across the
Beringia land bridge between Asia and North America between 26,000 and 18,000 years ago. As time wore on, the thinking goes, these people spread southward and gave rise to the Native American populations encountered by European settlers centuries ago.
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3. No matter the animal....
primitives everywhere found ways to kill them.
a. " When the Aborigines arrived in Australia the fauna ‘included a large variety of monotremes and marsupials, including ‘giant’ forms of macropodids (kangaroos and related species).
Within 15,000 years all were extinct."
Alvard, M.S., ‘Conservation by Native Peoples: Prey Choice in a Depleted Habitat’, Human Nature, Vol. 5, No. 2, 1994, pp.127-154, citing Horton, J., 'Red Kangaroos: Last of the Australian Megafauna' in Martin, P., and Klein, R., (eds.) Quartenary Extinctions, Tuscon: University and Murray, P., 'Extinctions Down Under: A Bestiary of Extinct Australian Late Pleistocene Monotremes and Marsupials, in Martin, P. and Klein, R.
b. "The ‘prime peoples’ of Madagascar hunted several
species of giant lemurs to extinction."
Dewar, R., 'Extinctions in Madagascar: The Loss of the Subfossil Fauna’
Know what "extinction" means???? It refers to your intellect.
c. "The arrival of the Maoris in New Zealand was quickly followed by
the extinction of 34 species of birds."
Alvard, M.S., Op.Cit
c. As Matt Ridley puts it, ‘the first Maoris sat down and
ate their way through all twelve species of the giant moa birds’, leaving about a third of the meat to rot, and entire ovens stuffed with roast haunches unopened, so plentiful was the initial supply.
Ridley, M., "The Origins of Virtue," p.219
4. Peter Martin developed what has become known as
the ‘Overkill Hypothesis’to explain
the disappearance of large number of species - particularly mammal species - over the relatively short time-span of a few thousand years following the arrival of humans on the different continents.He argued that, where animals had plenty of time to get used to humans, as in Europe and Africa where homo sapiens first appeared, they learned to be cautious.
It was the arrival of man in Australia and
America which was particularly devastating as the animals did not know what to expect and provided easy targets. North America lost 73 per cent of its large mammalian species, South America 79 per cent, Australia 86 per cent, but Africa only 14 per cent.
Peter Ward, "The End of Evolution: Dinosaurs, Mass Extinction and Biodiversity," p. 202.
AGAIN: linked, sourced, supported.
Get it, you moron????