Zirantun
Banned
I am not abandoning my William will always be a bastard... timeline, I've just hit a rough spot at the moment.
Last night however I was reading some counter arguments to Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel, which I have always been rather skeptical of myself, which got me thinking about a POD sometime VERY far back in history.
I had wanted to place it some time during the Miocene, but when you go that far back it becomes very easy to butterfly humans out of the picture altogether. My friend suggested possibly preventing the evolution of grass somehow, but I think that humans still may not evolve under that scenario.
My goal in this timeline would be to get complex North American civilizations with domestic livestock while simultaneously avoiding the extinctions of a number of animals in the Americas.
I've read a lot about the Quaternary Extinction in the past, and have trouble with the idea that the Overkill Hypothesis didn't at least play a major part in the extinctions of megafauna, specifically in North America. So my idea was to get Neanderthals into North America early enough that at least some of the fauna that died in large part due to naivety of humans could get accustomed to human presence, and then later, get Cromagnons there by possibly following the migrations of Great Auks.
Idk though...
What do you guys think? How can we get Neanderthals and Cromagnons into North America and possibly avoid sections of the Qaternary Extinction?
Last night however I was reading some counter arguments to Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel, which I have always been rather skeptical of myself, which got me thinking about a POD sometime VERY far back in history.
I had wanted to place it some time during the Miocene, but when you go that far back it becomes very easy to butterfly humans out of the picture altogether. My friend suggested possibly preventing the evolution of grass somehow, but I think that humans still may not evolve under that scenario.
My goal in this timeline would be to get complex North American civilizations with domestic livestock while simultaneously avoiding the extinctions of a number of animals in the Americas.
I've read a lot about the Quaternary Extinction in the past, and have trouble with the idea that the Overkill Hypothesis didn't at least play a major part in the extinctions of megafauna, specifically in North America. So my idea was to get Neanderthals into North America early enough that at least some of the fauna that died in large part due to naivety of humans could get accustomed to human presence, and then later, get Cromagnons there by possibly following the migrations of Great Auks.
Idk though...
What do you guys think? How can we get Neanderthals and Cromagnons into North America and possibly avoid sections of the Qaternary Extinction?