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Giant Sloths and Sabertooth Cats : Extinct Mammals and the Archaeology of the Ice Age Great Basin / Donald K. Grayson ; with animal reconstructions by Wally Woolfenden.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Grayson, Donald K.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Glacial epoch.
- Extinct mammals--North America.
- Extinct mammals.
- Extinct mammals--Great Basin.
- Great Basin--History.
- Great Basin.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (448 pages) : illustrations, tables
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Salt Lake City, [Utah] : University of Utah Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- As the Ice Age came to an end, North America lost a stunning variety of animals.Mammoths, mastodon, llamas, ground-dwelling sloths the size of elephants, beavers the size of bears, pronghorn antelope the size of poodles, and carnivores to chase them--sabertooth cats, dire wolves, American lions and cheetahs; these and many more were gone by.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- A Tiny Bit of Background
- A Sloth in Prison
- The Great Basin Now and Then
- A Zoologically Impoverished World
- Dating an Ass
- A Stable of Ground Sloths
- Extinct Mammals, Dangerous Plants, and the Early Peoples of the Great Basin
- Clovis, Comets, and Climate: Explaining the Extinctions
- Notes
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-60781-470-6
- OCLC:
- 968210991
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