llamas

We had a productive thread on this subject a few years ago, but after recently revisiting some old notes of mine, I thought I'd canvass some opinions to see how possible/plausible people would find such an event occurring, and if it did occur, how far some sort of llama pastoralism could spread...

Iirc, the spread of goats through north africa and the middle east helped to aggravate the desertification proccess. What if domestic americal camellids were brought to replace the roll of goats? Llamas eat grass cutting it, stead of ripping the roots like goats. Their manure is highly fertil...

Northern *New Mexico, ca. 10,500 BCE The chorus of whistling birds filled the early morning with joyous sound, masking the footfalls of the hunter as he trod gingerly through the scrub grasses. Out into the scrubland he had dashed, following the familiar traces until he'd come nearly within...