Description
Description: Like most scientists, archaeologists often disagree with one another. This is partly because it takes time to gather a body of evidence sufficiently complete to evaluate conflicting interpretations. It is also because archaeologists approach material remains from different theoretical perspectives and assumptions that affect the way they think about human societies.
First: Identify a controversy in archaeology. The controversy you choose should be one that is contested by credible authorities in archaeology, based on discipline-specific indicators.
Essay to be written about:
- Whether or not humans played a major role in the extinction of megafauna near the end of the last Ice Age.
Second: Critically compare and contrast at least two competing, credible claims to the controversy.
Third: Identify 2-3 lines of evidence that have been cited in the archaeological literature in support of each of the claims.
Explanation & Answer
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Running Head: THE EXTINCTION OF THE MEGAFAUNA
The Extinction of the Megafauna
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THE EXTINCTION OF THE MEGAFAUNA
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The Extinction of the Megafauna
Four theories explain the extinction of the megafauna. There is the overkill hypothesis,
climatic change, disease, and an impact from either an asteroid or a comet. This paper will
analyze the theories surrounding the overkill hypothesis and also climatic change. This paper
will examine these theories utilizing looking at two articles which have different views on the
same. The first article by Kaars et al. (2016) argues that humans are beings to blame for the
megafaunal extinction in Australia. They dismiss the claim that climatic change had anything to
do with the phenomena. Mahn et al. (2019), on the oth...