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Twilight of the Mammoths: the Last Entire Earth

By Martin , P. S

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2004
ISBN
0520231414, 9780520941106, 0520941101
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1848151 bytes)
Pages
273 pages\273
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Extinction (Biology);Electronic books

Description

Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Prologue; 1 Discovering the Last Lost World; Radiocarbon Dating and Quaternary Extinctions; 2 Overview of Overkill; 3 Ground Sloth Dung and Packrat Middens; Giant Meat-Eating Bats?; 4 Ground Sloths at Home; Cryptozoology, Ground Sloths, and Mapinguari National Park; 5 Grand Canyon Suite: Mountain Goats, Condors, Equids, and Mammoths; 6 Deadly Syncopation; 7 Digging for the First People in America: High Stakes at Tule Springs; Tricks, Hoaxes, and Bad Science; 8 Kill Sites, Sacred Sites.;The author's "overkill" hypothesis is presented in this study that explains the mysterious megafauna extinctions in North and South America around the time humans arrived at the end of the last great ice age.

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