Small populations of Stone Age people drove dwarf hippos and elephants to extinction on Cyprus
- Written by Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Matthew Flinders Professor of Global Ecology and Node Leader in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures, Flinders University
Imagine growing up beside the eastern Mediterranean Sea 14,000 years ago. You’re an accomplished sailor of the small watercraft you and your fellow villagers make, and you live off both the sea and the land.
But times have been difficult — there just isn’t the same amount of game or fish around as when you were a child. Maybe...





