Ein alter Knochen stellt dar, wie indigene Australier mit der Megafauna umgingen. Eine Gruppe von Wissenschaftlern argumentiert, dass Australiens Ureinwohner eher frühe Paläontologen waren als die Ausrottung vorantreibenden Schlächter.
An ancient bone recasts how Indigenous Australians treated megafauna
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Can’t access the link unfortunately
We’re both those things now, we were both those things then
Dumbest conclusion ever.
We eat the megafauna *that still exist today* by the tens of thousands, I have some in my freezer.
Calling paleolithic people who collected and used bones they found „paleontologists“ is an interesting word choice.
Furthermore those millions of artifacts referred to are extremely rarely complete set which means too many pieces are missing to get the whole picture of an animals life and death. For instance animals that died by damage to soft tissue cannot be accounted for, as far as what killed it.
I don’t object to their study as far as the evidence they’ve looked at goes, like damage to bones, but as for their conclusions it reeks of conjecture and confirmation bias.
As noted by another commenter this seems to be apologist conclusions. There’s no way hunting of mega fauna didn’t contribute to their demise, especially within such a small timeframe.
“Archer hopes the revision contributes to a renewed respect for the way Indigenous populations around the world interacted with the animals they encountered. “We’ve got to stop assuming that [they] did these terrible things of obliterating these very precious animals on all those continents,” he says. “We should first suspect they weren’t the driver.”
Goodness the twist is enviable without valid references.
Edit: like any species they ate what was available.