Small populations of Stone Age people drove dwarf hippos and elephants to extinction on Cyprus

David Cejas

Adelaide: 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 it’s time to look elsewhere for food. Now imagine going farther than ever before in your little boat, accompanied maybe by a few others, when suddenly you spot something on the horizon. Is that an island?

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