How did humans hunt wooly mammoths to extinction?

[lolbtc]

Seems like anither lie we've been fed and we believed it.

Supposedly these big huge animals but we hunted them and mad them extinct.

Based on what evidence?

[yieldtonothing]

it got too hot for them boyo bc humans caused global warming

[BigTimeOperator]

The role of humans in woolly mammoth extinction is a debated topic. It used to be widely believed that humans were the main culprit, hunting them to extinction. This theory is called the Overkill Hypothesis.

More recent research suggests climate change may have been the bigger factor. Here's a breakdown of both sides:

Overkill Hypothesis: This theory points to the arrival of humans in new regions around the same time mammoths disappeared. It suggests early human hunting, with tools like spears, put too much pressure on mammoth populations that couldn't recover.

Climate Change: Recent studies using environmental DNA (eDNA) suggest mammoths actually persisted longer than previously thought, overlapping with humans for thousands of years. This research points to a shift in climate around the time of extinction, with increased precipitation making their food sources scarce.

So, the answer is complex. While humans likely did hunt mammoths, the extent of their impact and whether they were the primary cause of extinction is uncertain. Climate change appears to have played a major role.

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The role of humans in woolly mammoth extinction is a debated topic. It used to be widely believed that humans were the main culprit, hunting them to extinction. This theory is called the Overkill Hypothesis.

More recent research suggests climate change may have been the bigger factor. Here's a breakdown of both sides:

Overkill Hypothesis: This theory points to the arrival of humans in new regions around the same time mammoths disappeared. It suggests early human hunting, with tools like spears, put too much pressure on mammoth populations that couldn't recover.

Climate Change: Recent studies using environmental DNA (eDNA) suggest mammoths actually persisted longer than previously thought, overlapping with humans for thousands of years. This research points to a shift in climate around the time of extinction, with increased precipitation making their food sources scarce.

So, the answer is complex. While humans likely did hunt mammoths, the extent of their impact and whether they were the primary cause of extinction is uncertain. Climate change appears to have played a major role.

That doesn't explain the Megatherium (giant sloths) going extinct shortly after humans arrived in their area.

[BigTimeOperator]

The extinction of Megatherium, the giant ground sloth, likely wasn't a simple case of humans showing up and them disappearing. It was probably a combination of factors:

Climate Change: The end of the Ice Age brought about significant changes in temperature and vegetation. Megatherium's diet may not have been able to adapt to the new plant life.

Human Hunting: While there's some evidence of tool marks on Megatherium bones, the bigger impact from humans might have been competition for resources. Early humans may have hunted the same prey or consumed plants that Megatherium relied on.

The exact weightage of these factors is still being debated. Some recent research suggests a connection between the presence of a specific spearhead design and the disappearance of megafauna in the Americas, hinting at human hunting playing a bigger role.

[snowergrower]

Brb time to rewatch Walking With Beasts

[Train57]

if you were a 6ft + manmore and a buncha tiny manlets hunted you then you would be extinct too since they outnumber you 100-1

[blissful88]

You're legitimately Jew-brain retarded if you think humans were around 300,000+ years ago when there's zero viable proof the Earth is older than 5,000 years(muh carbon muh rocks)


And they were all just stupid as hell until the last 150 years

You mean to tell me it took half a million years to harness electricity or use water/wind to power things beyond a boat




People haven't gotten smarter, if anything they're dumber than they were 1,000 years ago; have you seen the average person today

[MajorTendonitis]

Near the end , only the Chad mammoth’s were getting any ,leading to their extinction . Had the female mammoths not been so picky , and only mated with the males that were over 13’2” tall, they’d probably still be around today

[OldDirtyBulk]

The white man should have never gave internet access to op and his fellow be@ners.

[JayJ350]

It was climate change that killed the wooly mammoth, so it must have been all those prehistoric people driving around in their gas powered cars.

[Formula0ne]

You're legitimately Jew-brain retarded if you think humans were around 300,000+ years ago when there's zero viable proof the Earth is older than 5,000 years(muh carbon muh rocks)


And they were all just stupid as hell until the last 150 years

You mean to tell me it took half a million years to harness electricity or use water/wind to power things beyond a boat




People haven't gotten smarter, if anything they're dumber than they were 1,000 years ago; have you seen the average person today

Lol jesus christ.


I can't tell if you guys are serious or trolling when you say stuff like this.

[Formula0ne]

It was climate change that killed the wooly mammoth, so it must have been all those prehistoric people driving around in their gas powered cars.

The climate has always changed naturally without human interference. It has gone through massive cycles like hot eras and ice ages. The argument is that human technology is increasing the speed of our current natural cycle, making it happen faster than it should happen.


Though, I disagree with the ridiculous things many democrats want to do to try to curb it. There are reasonable things to slow it down, and then there's unreasonable, they go to unreasonable lengths.

[Evil_D]

A few years ago the bright new theory was that early man thought they were being responsible by only killing and eating the biggest ones (so they needed to kill less of them as well as fed their clans for longer).

However this had an unexpected consequence. After having killed the biggest (pack leaders), this turned the rest of the pack into a blood frenzy, possibly unnaturally so, for positions of pack leadership.
This effect would explain large mammoth graves and not the human act of hunting directly.

This phenomenon was not sustainable to mammoth populations.

[JayJ350]

The climate has always changed naturally without human interference. It has gone through massive cycles like hot eras and ice ages. The argument is that human technology is increasing the speed of our current natural cycle, making it happen faster than it should happen.


Though, I disagree with the ridiculous things many democrats want to do to try to curb it. There are reasonable things to slow it down, and then there's unreasonable, they go to unreasonable lengths.

The biggest problem is how they keep trying to phuck with people over stupid things with a miniscule impact while they keep ignoring or excusing massive things that actually make an impact.

[Anachron]

If only the mammoths got vaxxed.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Evil_D]

Low IQ response thread

[wigwogzigzog]

Spear cuh

[Formula0ne]

A few years ago the bright new theory was that early man thought they were being responsible by only killing and eating the biggest ones (so they needed to kill less of them as well as fed their clans for longer).

However this had an unexpected consequence. After having killed the biggest (pack leaders), this turned the rest of the pack into a blood frenzy, possibly unnaturally so, for positions of pack leadership.
This effect would explain large mammoth graves and not the human act of hunting directly.

This phenomenon was not sustainable to mammoth populations.

Is this srs? Really interesting theory if so

[MeSoHawny]

Younger Dryas - comet hit earth 13k years ago. Caused massive floods and ice sheet melts, ending the ice age and all but destroying most mega fauna.

[TwoTailedSperm]

A few years ago the bright new theory was that early man thought they were being responsible by only killing and eating the biggest ones (so they needed to kill less of them as well as fed their clans for longer).

However this had an unexpected consequence. After having killed the biggest (pack leaders), this turned the rest of the pack into a blood frenzy, possibly unnaturally so, for positions of pack leadership.
This effect would explain large mammoth graves and not the human act of hunting directly.

This phenomenon was not sustainable to mammoth populations.

The people who made this theory 100% did not eat meat. They would have killed and eaten the babies because they taste way better.

[p7nk]

Pretty sure they weren't smart. just big sacks of meat.

[IPoopStandingUp]

It was climate change that killed the wooly mammoth, so it must have been all those prehistoric people driving around in their gas powered cars.

No emissions standards or ethanol in the gas back then hnnnng

[GooBaaa]

They were alive in Serbia awhile ago srs

Earth isn’t as old as they say though and dead dinosaurs don’t make oil jfl that’s a lie

[davik]

chat gpt responses shouldnt be allowed

[SillieBazzillie]

Zero chance primitives with spears and rocks hunted Mammoths to extinction. Clearly there were other factors that killed off the Mammoth.

Humans didn't start to be able to negatively impact the ecosystem via mass killing until guns were invented, for land animals, and steam powered ships for whales and later advanced nets, sonar, etc for fish.

[Trillhouse]

We've hunted other animals to extinction, so it's not out of the realm for it to be the case with Woolly Mammoths.

[proudmanlet]

It was climate change that killed the wooly mammoth, so it must have been all those prehistoric people driving around in their gas powered cars.

fun fact: back then “fossil fuel” was just called “fuel”

[RICHSTRONG]

God killed the mammoths becuase he realized how bad he f*cked up when he gave them Tusks that weren't in reach of their cocks...so he threw a few meteors to clear up the sheet and start fresh again, this time, creating his newest species, the human. After realizing his mistake, he quickly fixed it and and made our arms in length to reach our cocks and pleasure ourselves when we weren't praying to him. God truly is unbelievable...oh, and read the bible you b*tches, it says everything you need to know in that book! __