Ice age animals not wiped out by humans

This result directly contradicts models of population collapse from human overkill (blitzkrieg) or infectious diseases following the first human contact (hyperdisease). Based on a lack of overlap between the animal and human populations, the researchers find climate change alone explains the extinction of the musk ox (Ovibos moschatus) and woolly rhinoceros. Specimens of the musk ox were found in only 1 per cent of European archaeological sites while woolly rhinoceros remains were in just 11 per cent of Siberian archaeological sites, suggesting it was not a common prey species for humans. http... [More]

That's funny. I always found the notion that humans caused the extinction of the mammoths as simpleminded and premature conclusion. I highly doubted such large numbers of creatures could be so easily driven to extinction by a single source. Looks like I might have been right, too.

Native Americans hunted with pretty much the same weapons and tactics as ice age hunters and game animals, particularly the bison flourished for thousands of years.

We tend to confuse trophy killing with hunting the prehistoric people would not be so stupid to destroy their food source this was another atempt to blacken native american reputation.

It has been generally accepted that it was man that pushed the already stressed species over the edge, so this theory if not so radical as it seems. The key words there being "already stressed". Something which most people don't realize, nor consider. cormac