Tom,
what is the name of Diamond's other book? I have often wondered if the great
Flood (which clearly did occur) wiped out more megafauna than humans. Also
related to this is the huge rise in sea level at the end of the last Ice Age
which has effectively wiped out all coastal human archeological sites,
leaving us with a few crumbs to play with.
Ben

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>Diamonds stuff is always good reading, but in another book
>he pooh-poohs the idea that humans ever were big game
>hunters. His reasoning was that since the people he lived
>with in New Guinea fantasized a lot about hunting big game,
>but were hardly ever successful, nobody ever must have done
>so. Pretty poor reasoning, I thought, given the vast
>evidence to the contrary.