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Native Americans domesticated megafauna.
Topic Started: Dec 11 2010, 06:03 PM (1,896 Views)
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Suppose that in the Americas civilization thrived* and that more large animals lived. What could they have tamed?

Mastodon? Cuvieronius?

*I'm not saying they did not produce some advanced cultures, but for some reason it never took off the way it did in Eurasia.
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Might be good for a sort of falconry.
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Most likely they'd use the native camels and horses and pronghorns. Elephants, being smart and having lots of testosterone, are very difficult to tame, although Mastodons might have been tamer or something.
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Musk ox and its relatives(shrub ox and others)
maybe some camelids and equids
and perhaps even tamed Cuvieronius in south and central america
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Elephants are not that hard to tame, people have been doing it for millennia in India.
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Hmm well maybe Glyptodonts would be farmed for their armour, which could be used to make armour for battle
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yes,but mastodont and cuvieronius were not elephants

BTW alongside with cuvieronius,there were also two species of Stegomastodon in latest pleistocene of SA
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Yeah, but I doubt they would be much harder to tame. Elephas and Loxodonta are pretty distant and they can both be tamed.
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Elephants are not that hard to tame, people have been doing it for millennia in India.
India?
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I doubt most of the animals would be good for taming.

Wolves or coyotes could be selectively domesticated, for more dogs.
Raccoons or martens, maybe.
And some of the larger herbivores.
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Tayra and Kinkajou too,but they re not consideret as megafauna

perhaps even extinct north american capybara could be domesticated
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Yes India. They also did it in the middle east and North Africa, but those elephants became extinct. Also South East Asia, but India is the most famous place for taming elephants.

I wonder if North America's horses would be better or worse than our Tarpan descended ones.
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Yeah you can tame elephants, it's just you can't beat them mercilessly in submission like the smaller critters.

I dunno Lamna, them ancient horses were mighty delicious.
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