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Interesting Development
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http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/...d_mammoths

Quote:Contrary to their hunting reputation, Stone Age Siberians killed mammoths only every few years when they needed tusks for toolmaking, a new study finds.

People living between roughly 33,500 and 31,500 years ago hunted the animals mainly for ivory, say paleontologist Pavel Nikolskiy and archaeologist Vladimir Pitulko of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Hunting could not have driven mammoths to extinction, the researchers report June 5 in the Journal of Archaeological Science.
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I was just reading about this on archeology.com.
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The idea that humans crossed the land bridge from Siberia and hunted the North American mammoths to extinction has been under fire for a while now. I have frequently argued on Archaeologica.org that humans and mammoths co-existed in Siberia for much longer than North America without wiping them out and this analysis seems to indicate why. It also makes it somewhat more unlikely that humans would have arrived on the West Coast and immediately changed their behavior to start hunting mammoths en masse.
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What other animals were available in Siberia at this time? Mammoth is a lot of effort to hunt and a lot of meat for a small community to process I would think.
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Wild sheep, deer, horse, auroch, moose, all a tad less dangerous to go up against than a mammoth.
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The more logical explanation is that the mammoth died out when the ice age for which they had evolved to survive in ended.
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There had been numerous advances and retreats of the ice and the mammoth managed to survive them quite nicely, though.
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Mammoth Aids. That's my hypothesis.
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(June 16, 2013 at 12:56 am)Minimalist Wrote: Wild sheep, deer, horse, auroch, moose, all a tad less dangerous to go up against than a mammoth.

All yielding; meat, skins, sinew, bone, intestines (containers) and fat. So yes, much easier to hunt and in greater (herds) numbers and less dangerous I would think.
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Yeah but we all know that chieftan asshole who wants what no one else can get without sheer manpower. I bet he wore the ivory as a necklace.
If I were to create self aware beings knowing fully what they would do in their lifetimes, I sure wouldn't create a HELL for the majority of them to live in infinitely! That's not Love, that's sadistic. Therefore a truly loving god does not exist!

Quote:The sin is against an infinite being (God) unforgiven infinitely, therefore the punishment is infinite.

Dead wrong.  The actions of a finite being measured against an infinite one are infinitesimal and therefore merit infinitesimal punishment.

Quote:Some people deserve hell.

I say again:  No exceptions.  Punishment should be equal to the crime, not in excess of it.  As soon as the punishment is greater than the crime, the punisher is in the wrong.

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