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Extinctions in North America were concentrated at the end of the Late Pleistocene, around 13,800–11,400 years Before Present, which were coincident with the onset of the Younger Dryas cooling period, as well as the emergence of the hunter-gatherer Clovis culture.
The end of the Pleistocene in North America saw the extinction of 38 genera of mostly large mammals. As their disappearance seemingly coincided with the arrival of people in the Americas, their extinction is often attributed to human overkill, ...
13 gru 2021 · This article explores the debate over the cause of the Quaternary extinction event, which saw the demise of many megafaunal species in North America. It uses optimal foraging theory to analyze the costs and benefits of hunting mammoths and other large game by Paleoindian hunter-gatherers.
5 wrz 2018 · Pleistocene overkill, the notion that humans overhunted megafauna near the end of the Pleistocene in the Americas, Australia, and beyond, is used as prime example of the impact that humans can have on the planet.
15 mar 2023 · The Pleistocene overkill hypothesis imagined human hunting, not climate change, to be the primary cause of megafaunal extinction. This article situates the Pleistocene overkill hypothesis in a broader history of the emergence of historical ecology as a distinct sub-discipline of paleoecology.
12 kwi 2021 · Based on Clovis and Fishtail projectile point evidence, Paul Martin 13 formulated the challenging hypothesis of the “Pleistocene overkill”, which postulated that the appearance of humans in the...
1 maj 2003 · In North America, archaeologists and paleontologists whose work focuses on the late Pleistocene routinely reject Martin's position for two prime reasons: there is virtually no evidence that supports it, and there is a remarkably broad set of evidence that strongly suggests that it is wrong.
