last refuge
happy fourth to those who celebrate! just had a quick question/ thought discussion i wanted to impose on you all. if there was an undiscovered bone bed somewhere remote, or fossils in general showing an early-middle holocene survival of iconic late pleistocene north and south american fauna such as Smilodon, horses, sloths, proboscideans etc… where would it be? my personal guess would be somewhere in central america, or along the andean region, as these areas of the americas developed agriculture the earliest, and if any animals did hold on from the initial onslaught of the earlier hunter gatherer populations of humans…they’d probably be at lesser risk? i have no backing for that theory, just something that makes sense to me. i’d love to hear what you guys think and also if you even believe there could be a middle to even late holocene survival of any of the iconic fauna that we just haven’t uncovered yet