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Twilight of the mammoths : ice age extinctions and the rewilding of America / Paul S. Martin.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Martin, Paul S. (Paul Schultz), 1928-2010.
- Series:
- Organisms and environments ; 8.
- Organisms and environments ; 8
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Extinction (Biology).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (273 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- 9 Models in Collision: Climatic Change versus Overkill10 Restoration; Unexpected Ramifications of Ecological Change; 11 Resurrection: The Past Is Future; Epilogue; References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-241) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4237-4554-X
- 0-520-94110-1
- 1-59875-941-8
- OCLC:
- 475969658
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