9/15/2023 0 Comments Prehistoric predators animals![]() ![]() Hall of Human Origins American Museum of Natural History /exhibitions Wikipedia article on Human Evolution Wikipedia Human Evolution Images Hominin Species Smithsonian Human Origins Program humanorigins.si.edu Institute of Human Origins Becoming Human University of Arizona site Talk Origins Index /origins Last updated 2006. Websites and Resources on Hominins and Human Origins: WOOLLY MAMMOTHS: CHARACTERISTICS, HABITAT AND DIET The end of the large-game hunting cultures marked the end of the early stone age (Paleolithic period) and the beginning of the middle stone age (Mesolithic period) when early man derived his protein from fish, shellfish and deer instead of large animals like mammoth and buffalo.įor Information on Gigantopithecus, the Largest Primate Ever SeeUnder PRIMATES - MONKEYS, MACAQUES, GIBBONS, AND LORISES-IN CHINA It is believed that these animals were driven to extinction by a mix of environmental factors, which may have also included competition for resources with modern humans, who were spreading throughout Europe and the Americas at this time. Ice Age megafauna, including the woolly mammoth and the cave bear, became extinct around the same time around 10,000 years ago. ![]() The mass extinctions are believed to have been partly the result of these animals having never been hunted by humans and having little fear of them. Other species such as the musk ox and saiga antelope managed to survive in only small pockets. ![]() Predation by early men and the shrinking of Ice Age grasslands are both believed to have led to the sudden extinction of animals named above. Animals that lived in Ice Age Europe around 40,000 years ago at same time modern humans and Neanderthal roamed the continent included wooly mammoths, cave bears, mastodons, saber tooth tigers, cave lions, wooly rhinoceros, steppe bison, giant elk, and the European wild ass. ![]()
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