> From: PDML [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John
> And don't forget that the Plains Indians had no horses until after 1520, > although there is a growing body of paleontological evidence that horses > once roamed free in North America until the first "native Americans" > crossing over from Asia hunted them to extinction some 12,000 years ago. > It's my understanding (from reading one or other of Jared Diamond's books) that the horse actually evolved on the North American plains, and the incoming people promptly ate them all. It's kind of ironic, I think, that if they'd saddled 'em up instead of roasting them they might have been able to withstand the incoming Eurotrash when we got there. What were they thinking? B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
