# Extinctions were driven by climate change and human hunting over a longer period; Clovis gave way to…

> Most likely: Extinctions were driven by climate change and human hunting over a longer period; Clovis gave way to successor technologies without collapse.

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# Extinctions were driven by climate change and human hunting over a longer period; Clovis gave way to…

Extinctions were driven by climate change and human hunting over a longer period; Clovis gave way to successor technologies without collapse.

**Most likely** Answers **1** questionPublished0

## Where it stands

**Most likely** Its tests partly supported it: one piece of evidence for, none against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- Extinction dates spread across the late glacial.
- Human activity continues through the boundary.

## What would rule it out

- A tight cluster of last appearances and a sharp demographic fall exactly at the onset.

## Evidence 1 for · none against

[Late Pleistocene extinctions varied in time and space.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/younger-dryas-impact/evidence/EVD0D51XQPR45S5/late-pleistocene-extinctions-varied-in-time-and-space)

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## The questions it answers

[Did a catastrophe at about 12.8 ka cause the North American megafaunal extinctions and the end of Clovis?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/younger-dryas-impact/questions/QST0D51X9HM392H/did-a-catastrophe-at-about-12-8-ka-cause-the-north-american)

Most likelyExtinctions were driven by climate change and human hunting over a longer period; Clovis gave way to…

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