In the shadow of the Sabertooth : a renegade naturalist considers global warming, the first Americans and the terrible beasts of the Pleistocene / Doug Peacock.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peacock, Doug.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes.

Global warming.

Paleontology--Pleistocene.

Paleontology.

Physical Description:

219 pages : illustrations, map ; 19 cm

Place of Publication:

Petrolia, Calif. : CounterPunch, 2013.

Summary:

For the past 12,000 years, the earth has experienced a relatively stable climate. Today, that predictability has ended, and global warming is our new reality. Yet such shining weather patterns threatened Homo sapiens once before, right here in North America as the continent was first being colonized About 15.000 years ago, the weather began to warm, melting the glaciers of the Late Pleistocene and driving the beasts of the Ice Age toward extinction. In this new landscape, humans managed lo adapt to unfamiliar habitats and dangerous creatures in the midst of a wildly fluctuating climate. Age there lessons for modern people lingering along this ancient trail? Renegade naturalist Doug Peacock's thrilling narrative explores the full range of climate change, from the death of the Pleistocene megafauna to the disappearance of today's ice. In the Shadow of the Saber tooth is a deeply personal odyssey that follows Peacock from archeological digs in Michigan and Montana, to the tiger haunted forests of Siberia, along the wild coast of the Pacific Northwest, into the rugged arroyos of Mexico and the American Southwest. Book jacket.

Contents:

Repatriation and the greatest adventure

Sidebar: a note on dating and carbon-14

The liar of the short-faced bear : forbidding glaciers, man-eating predators and poisonous plants in ice-age America

Archaeology and the shape of the journey

Invisible people: life before the pre-last glacial maximum : Ice-age people in the far North of Siberia and America

Mingled fates of Homo Sapiens and Ursus Arctos Horribilis : grizzly bears as proxy for early human occupation of the Americas

Braving the Northwest coast during the time of icebergs : maritime learning and innovation in North America

Pre-Clovis people : the significance of people in the contiguous American states before Clovis

Clovis : the great American invention?

Endgame : late Pleistocene extinction and the sudden sunset of Clovis.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references : (pages 207-213 and index).

ISBN:

9781849351409

1849351406

OCLC:

850400796