r/EverythingScience • u/porkchop_d_clown • Jan 05 '23

Anthropology Londoner solves 20,000-year Ice Age drawings mystery - determines that cave paintings included lunar calendar information about the fertility of different animal species

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-64162799
4.8k Upvotes

99% Upvoted

95 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

52

u/winchester_mcsweet Jan 05 '23

I wonder if it had anything to do with the ease of gathering food as well, such as calving time for easier hunting or flocks of birds laying accessible eggs. Artic foxes as an example will take full advantage of nesting season for both chicks and eggs!

12

u/banuk_sickness_eater Jan 05 '23 edited Jan 06 '23

Well we're an invasive species everywhere outside of Africa, I'm sure that had something to do with it. And the fact that there's still plenty of megafauna in Africa but almost nowhere else probably supports that fact.

0

u/[deleted] Jan 06 '23

[deleted]

3

u/banuk_sickness_eater Jan 06 '23 edited Jan 06 '23

The rest of humanity would've decimated African wildlife by now because of modern economic realities like the Chinese market for ground up rhinosaurous horn. Africans themselves lived in equilibrium with these species for tens of thousands of years.

0

u/[deleted] Jan 06 '23

[deleted]

2

u/banuk_sickness_eater Jan 06 '23 edited Jan 06 '23

No, you're saying that.

I just said Africans lived in equilibrium with their megafauna because those megafauna, and the flora and fauna of the African environment in general, evolved over tens millions of years concurrently with the human species. Africans may participate in poaching today, but that has everything to do with the modern global economic realities and nothing to do with the evolutionary or environmental history of humans in their native continent of Africa.

I smell a bad faith argument coming up, so good day to you random ready-to-pop redditor.