Crediting the YD w/ 1) megafauna extinction in NA, 2) extinction of Clovis culture in NA, 3) climate change from wet/warm prior to YD, to 'freeze' during YD, to 'warm and dry' post YD... which, OTL, is credited with the rise of agriculture...
So what if the YD didn't happen and Agriculture developed in a different, much slower, way?
I'm thinking of a short timeline, from prehistory into copper or maybe bronze age, starting with that premise. That is, from mid-paleothic to lower neo-lithic. In other words from 80k BC to ca 2000 BC. and this would be the POD. Short because I'll not linger pre 9000bc, and I'll just be overviewing the impact around the globe to climate & culture.
The Saharan desert never forms, Mesopotamia never dries out, (at least for a lot long than OTL) but there is no 'crush' or limited food source in the regions either.
Sea levels start lower and rise more slowly, right?
Clovis culture doesn't die off, but instead thrives on megafauna... possibly domesticating it? (thinking water buffalo were domesticated into cattle, right?) With camels, horses, and warmer climate N. America & Clovis develops much like a compressed Asia?
I'm asking for opinions and/or assistance, this being my first TL thought after lurking here for a while.
So what if the YD didn't happen and Agriculture developed in a different, much slower, way?
I'm thinking of a short timeline, from prehistory into copper or maybe bronze age, starting with that premise. That is, from mid-paleothic to lower neo-lithic. In other words from 80k BC to ca 2000 BC. and this would be the POD. Short because I'll not linger pre 9000bc, and I'll just be overviewing the impact around the globe to climate & culture.
The Saharan desert never forms, Mesopotamia never dries out, (at least for a lot long than OTL) but there is no 'crush' or limited food source in the regions either.
Sea levels start lower and rise more slowly, right?
Clovis culture doesn't die off, but instead thrives on megafauna... possibly domesticating it? (thinking water buffalo were domesticated into cattle, right?) With camels, horses, and warmer climate N. America & Clovis develops much like a compressed Asia?
I'm asking for opinions and/or assistance, this being my first TL thought after lurking here for a while.