ASPO Sverige – Om hur oljetoppen kommer att påverka oss
Dan Flores is a historian who has been studying the stormy relationship between humans and the family of life for many years. He calls this subject Big History. Wild New World is a fascinating and disturbing masterpiece. It’s a thick book loaded with ideas gathered over a long career. The core focus is on North America, which was once an Eden-like paradise of abundant wildlife. What happened?
Our species emerged in beautiful Mother Africa maybe 300,000 years ago. Maybe 60,000 years ago, adventurous folks began wandering off into the outer world. Our exploration of the planet was underway. Folks went east to Asia, and north to Europe. By maybe 45,000 years ago, folks were in Siberia and northern Asia. So far, the earliest evidence of humans in America dates to maybe 25,000 years ago.
Flores described two important discoveries in New Mexico. At Folsom (1908), the bones of 32 extinct giant bison, 12,450 years old. At Clovis (1914) the bones of extinct mammoths, 13,000 years old. At both sites, flaked flint points were found with the bones, smoking gun evidence of human hunting. A huge surprise!
ASPO Sverige – Om hur oljetoppen kommer att påverka oss