Megafauna

gives numerous examples as proof of the importance that oral traditions hold in knowing the past of North America and its inhabitants. Oral traditions tell not only the history of their people, but also of past landscapes, climates, and even extinct megafauna in some cases. They bridge the physical evidence with cultures that are still thriving and active. Roger C. Echo-Hawk provides an objective argument rooted in facts without vilifying mainstream archaeological techniques. His evidence and…

United States of America, which has been a nation of immigrants, freedom and opportunity from the earliest days, has grown to the most powerful country of all. The barren field where megafauna had lived changed to home for Native Americans from Asia, who were living in that great continent before Christopher Columbus discover it thousands of years ago. Then the massive amount of Europeans had come over with their dreams and hopes and started to form now this great country. However, the voyage to…

Tapirs are large mammals that belong to the Perissodactyla order (Galetti et al. 2001). They are the only species currently present from the Pleistocene megafauna, which makes them the ideal mammal capable of dispersing large seeded fruit in Central and South America (Simpson 1980, Eisenberg 1981). Although there are currently four species of tapirs (Norman and Ashley 2000), this essay will focus on the lowland tapir, Tapirus terrestris. It is important to note that the mountain tapir, Tapirus…

120-121 -Corals (due to ocean acidification) pg. specifically 120-121 but talks about ocean acidification and their effects on corals all throughout chapter 6 Overexploitation (overhunting or collecting) - Megafauna (this theory remains uncertain, but it is believed that humans drove these large mammals to extinction by overkilling them) pg. 229 The great Auk (this bird was driven to extinction by humans killing them for their feathers to make pillows, and they…

(Firestone et al., 2007). One possible explanation for this change is the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis (YDIH), which proposes that an extra terrestrial (ET) object hit the earth 12,900 years ago (Firestone et al., 2007), which would have killed the megafauna near the impact zone, weakened the Laurentide ice sheet, which was covering the majority of North America, discharging…

taboo in Islamic religion and it also mentions some animals that are forbidden in Leviticus. The focus of this essay is to learn how animal taboo started, why did pigs became taboo and who have taboos against eating camels. When the pleistocene megafauna was destroyed, people started domestication animals like sheep, goats, pigs, cattle, and other domesticated animals. People starts raising these animals mainly for their meat. During the Neolithic times, it is easy to start domesticating…