Excellent storytelling! Very interesting times and methods of feeding one's family and their entire tribe. I suspect it was a very minute waste when they used nearly every aspect of the animals for food, shelter, blankets, clothing, and even shoes and jewelry. I learned many tidbits that I did not know. Thanks to all of the storytellers and production team!
I had always heard that Native Americans never wasted anything, but clearly there would have been massive waste here. Interesting new information thank you!
So you feel there was a decent amount of waste in these events? Ultimately do you feel these events contributed to the megafauna extinctions in North America? My feeling has always been there were too many animals and too few humans to make such an impact. But maybe not.
@OGMTB there was a decent amount of waste, but most archaeologists agree that it was the megafauna extinction is directly tied to the ending of the ice age since they were contemporaneous.
Sure there was waste! They killed WAY MORE than they needed this way. Contrary to "expert" belief (basically, revisionist American history as taught nowadays vs. the facts), the native Americans didn't care one bit about "conservation," and they hunted some animals almost to extinction in their tribal areas, and when they destroyed/used up everything in their immediate vicinity, they moved on to take/invade other tribes' hunting grounds. They ALL were HUGE "wasters" of almost every resource, and the only reason they didn't have a larger impact on the flora/fauna was because there just wasn't enough of them population-wise. So much for the myth of the "Noble Savage" and "they all got along" nonsense. -- BR
@@octatrails Actually, megafauna in North America go extinct at different times during the terminal Pleistocene, so the time/pace of extinction is hard to pin to one specific event.
Fantastic information, and the chance to view a site that is
unavailable to me otherwise. Many thanks to OCTA and Mr. Little!
@@desertborn7579 we're glad you enjoyed it!
Excellent storytelling! Very interesting times and methods of feeding one's family and their entire tribe. I suspect it was a very minute waste when they used nearly every aspect of the animals for food, shelter, blankets, clothing, and even shoes and jewelry. I learned many tidbits that I did not know. Thanks to all of the storytellers and production team!
Thanks Gina, we are happy it entertained and educated you!
Very interesting discussion. I am planning on buying the book.
What a sight it must have been to see. Talk about a DoorDash.
I had always heard that Native Americans never wasted anything, but clearly there would have been massive waste here. Interesting new information thank you!
So you feel there was a decent amount of waste in these events? Ultimately do you feel these events contributed to the megafauna extinctions in North America? My feeling has always been there were too many animals and too few humans to make such an impact. But maybe not.
@OGMTB there was a decent amount of waste, but most archaeologists agree that it was the megafauna extinction is directly tied to the ending of the ice age since they were contemporaneous.
Sure there was waste! They killed WAY MORE than they needed this way. Contrary to "expert" belief (basically, revisionist American history as taught nowadays vs. the facts), the native Americans didn't care one bit about "conservation," and they hunted some animals almost to extinction in their tribal areas, and when they destroyed/used up everything in their immediate vicinity, they moved on to take/invade other tribes' hunting grounds. They ALL were HUGE "wasters" of almost every resource, and the only reason they didn't have a larger impact on the flora/fauna was because there just wasn't enough of them population-wise. So much for the myth of the "Noble Savage" and "they all got along" nonsense.
-- BR
@@octatrails Actually, megafauna in North America go extinct at different times during the terminal Pleistocene, so the time/pace of extinction is hard to pin to one specific event.
Thats rad
@cornpopwasabaddude4188 we thought so too!