Animal Extinctions caused by the Roman Military

[Bran ap Maclou]

Thank you very much and laudes to you.

The sicilian origin of carthago's elephants is a classical historian hypothesis. The DNA fairy hit once again. Finally that's pretty logical.

That opens some new horizons. I wonder if we have some remains of "elephants" (I will now use some quotation commas) used by Carthago in antiquity ? In french Alpens some elephantid paths supposed to belong to Hannibal's elephants during a long time were finally mammoths and even dinosaurs...

This article only deals with asian and euro-siberian phylogeny, which seems correct for the mediterranean islands. What about some north african origins ? Sahara had not the same aspect than today. 6000 years ago, some large areas were still savannas. Perhaps some
elephants were trapped in north when the desert increased ?
Some isolated areas may have functionned like islands ?


If you have some other informations, I'm interested in...

Bye

Greg