Dear Faldage: I do not believe that the small number of humans with very primitive weapons
could have covered enough ground to wipe out a widespread population of any animal.
Climate change does indeed make new diseases spread. My father never had to worry about
hearworm in his hunting dogs. West Nile may be a brand new virus, that climate change may
have facilitated spread.
Men wiped out the carrier pidgeon with shotguns.Sailors wiped out the the great auk.
That is believable. I think the archaeologists are extrapolating illogically from that.