Found inside – Page 124... the large - bodied predators from Beringia and North America such as the carnivorous bear Arctodus , the dire wolves ( Canus dirus ) , as well as black bears , brown bears , wolves and wolverine . In the presence of the American megafauna ... Found inside – Page 92The assumption ( Bryan 1965 : 35 ) that North American glacial fluctuations caused simultaneous climatic oscillations in adjacent ... It is reasonable to suggest that within the Anathermal Era migratory megafauna such as mammoth inhabited a ... Found inside – Page 1012Summary A left humerus of the extinct North American giant shortfaced bear Arctodus simus yukonensis has been recovered from the North Slope of Alaska from a point bar on the ... In Megafauna & man : Discovery of America's heartland . Featuring stunning illustrations of each animal by world-famous artist Sergey Krosovskiy and based on the latest paleontogical research, this book provides information about the where and when the animals lived, what they ate, and more. Lange untangles the complex evolutionary lineages of mammal families, including the gomphotheres, elephant-like creatures that coexisted with humans at the end of the Pleistocene. Found inside – Page 2262 extinction of megafauna of, 32 Plummets, 104 Pluralism, 1n today's archaeology, 8 Pocola Mining Company, 164, 165 ... 8, 96, 173 concentric rmgs of, 98-99 early explorations of, 95-96 as first North American chiefdom, 10 1-2 in Louisiana, ... Different chapters in this volume provide in-depth resumés of the chronology of the extinctions in North and South America, the possible insights into animal ecology provided by studies of stable isotopes and anatomical/physiological ... Found inside – Page 20... the Pleistocene mega- fauna." By this he means elk are one of the last large North American mammals left from the Ice Age that ended about 1 1 ,000 years ago, known as the Late Pleistocene Epoch or Ranchola- brean by paleontologists. Found insidePaleomammalogist Ross D. E. MacPhee explores them all, examining the leading extinction theories, weighing the evidence, and presenting his own conclusions. Found inside – Page 10639 – 70 in Bryant , V . M . , Jr . , and R . G . Holloway ( Eds . ) , Pollen Records of Late - Quaternary North American Sediments . American ... 61 - 66 in Agenbroad , L . D . , J . I . Mead , and L . W . Nelson ( Eds . ) , Megafauna & Man . Discovery ... Full of entertaining descriptions of on-site encounters, personalities, and controversies, this is a compelling behind-the-scenes account of how science is illuminating our past. Found inside... and complex Clovis site about 14 miles southwest of the town of Tombstone and 20 miles north of the Mexican border. ... North American megafauna (with each genus consisting of several species) were wiped out around 12,800 years ago. Found inside – Page iiThe evaluation of future losses, by contrast, has lain almost exclusively within the domain of conservation biolo gists. Now, more than ever, there is opportunity for overlap and sharing of information. Found inside – Page 8... extinction of North American megafauna during the Quaternary , mammals with large body sizes are particularly at risk ( Barnosky et al . 2004 ; Barnosky 2008 ) , possibly due to the physiological impacts of even slightly warmer temperatures ... A must-read."—David Rains Wallace, author of Beasts of Eden "This is a marvelous read, by a giant in American prehistory, about one of the greatest mysteries in the earth sciences."—Tim Flannery, author of The Eternal Frontier "Whether ... Found inside – Page 102In contrast to Europe, few Pleistocene 6°C records have been reported for North American megafauna. Of those that are available, most are from regions where there was a mix of C, and C. plants present during the late Pleistocene (Connin et ... Found inside – Page 22... though these creatures managed paleoecologist John Alroy of the JEFFERSON'S GROUND SLOTH , woolly mammoths to maintain viable populations University of California at Santa and other North American megafauna vanished mysteri ... Found inside – Page 133The Eternal Frontier is the history of the world that you write if you are fascinated by megafauna . ... the North American experience : about the ecological release and ephemerality of New World frontiers , about the interaction between large ... Found inside – Page 12Tankersley ( 1994 : 96 ) notes that the Clovis tool kit was rather uniform throughout North America . ... Also , the concept that Clovis hunters originally specialized in extinct megafauna that occurred more in the west served to promote the idea of ... Found inside – Page 11Joint megafaunal (W. J. Sando, written communication, March 1964) and microfaunal (Skipp, 1963) studies of the Redwall Limestone of Arizona show that this criterion EXPLANATION OF PLATE 2 All figures × 50 FIGS. 1-9. Tournayella ... Found inside – Page 138Paleontologists describe engaged in stormy disputes in recent decades Asia and America — describe the creation of Ice Age America as a realm dominated by over the treatment of human remains and the earth from a watery world , and these stories giant animals , or “ megafauna . ... Paleoclimatologists tors of modern Native Americans also created have found that a very sudden global warming verbal ... Found inside – Page 177Game ranching : Threat to wildlife conservation in North America . Wildl . Soc . Bull . 13 : 594 - 598 . - 1985b . On Pleistocene bighorn sheep : Some problems of adaptation , and relevance to todays American megafauna . Wildl . Soc . Bull . Found inside – Page 6423 : More than 30 genera of large - bodied mammals ( megafauna ) in the Americas became extinct around 11 , 000 BP ... The earliest relatively precise charcoal - based dates yet obtained for North American Clovis are two dates of around ... Found inside – Page 116The preface, written by James Adovasio, discusses the current state of Paleoindian studies in North America and describes ... Richard Laub next discusses the important role that megafauna played in Paleoindian adaptations by drawing on ... In Once and Future Giants, science writer Sharon Levy digs through the evidence surrounding Pleistocene large animal ("megafauna") extinction events worldwide, showing that understanding this history--and our part in it--is crucial for ... Found inside – Page 12Other Llajas megafauna species used as evidence for the seaway are Clavilithes tabulatus , Lyria andersoni , and ... Entrance into the Pacific Coast region of North America was by way of a narrow seaway connection across southern Central ... More than 10,000 years ago spectacularly large mammals roamed the pampas and jungles of South America. This book tells the story of these great beasts during and just after the Pleistocene, the geological epoch marked by the great ice ages. Found inside – Page 81Large Mammals Mammoths, bison ami caribou were all slaughtered 7iv tin- first Americans using effective weapons, such as stone-tipped spears ... These early human invaders had the weaponry to annihilate the North American 'megafauna'. This fascinating book will enrich and deepen the experience of anyone who enjoys a stroll through the woods or even down an urban sidewalk. Found inside – Page 163ewes us by bearing witness to the electrifying kinematics of charismatic North American megafauna , you will be bored to death . The band has abandoned playfulness for the serious business of eating and turning their white butts to the hard ... Found inside – Page 551The foregoing discussion has focused mostly on eastern North America , but changes associated with the glacial period occurred through ... In the Pleistocene , as we have said , large animals ( the megafauna ) roamed North America . Almost ... Found inside – Page 2042Neotypes in natural history 1965 DIRHAM , J. W .: Megafaunal zones of Oligocene of northwestern Washington ...... 1980 ... By R. M. Adams 1993 EASTON , W. H .: Revision of Campophyllum in North America ..1966 ECKEL , E. B .: California ... This is the second volume from the In the Light of Evolution series, based on a series of Arthur M. Sackler colloquia, and designed to promote the evolutionary sciences. Found inside – Page 40the case for a short but unambiguous overlap between humans and megafauna in Australia some 50,000 - 45,000 ... of human—mediated extinctions in New Zealand (Holdaway & Jacomb 2000), North America (Alroy 2001), and Australia ... Challenging many sacrosanct notions about the relationship between Native Americans and nature, the author discusses the possible role of Pleistocene-era humans in eradicating the mastodon, over-irrigation of crops among the Hohokam of ... Found inside – Page 513... Patellacea , Microdomatacea , Anomphalacea , Cyclophoracea ) . However , the 5 superfamilies that do not occur in the Wolf Mountain Shale encompass only 9 genera of Pennsylvanian gastropods of North America . The gastropod fauna of ... Found inside – Page 23... however, for around 11,000 years ago most of the Ice Age megafauna began to vanish into extinction. Scientists still do not know whether the mammoths, mastodons, and other North American big-game species were hunted to extinction by ... Found inside – Page 59Base obligate - tricolpate tetrads ( Senectotetradites ) , recorded in the Cenomanian of North America ( Dettmann 1973 ) , occurs ... Megafauna Megafaunal data from the northern Australia margin and intracontinental eastern Australia provide ... Found inside – Page 122They stood their ground , successfully at times , just as did the Indians of North America . ... Flannery notes that the traditional explanation for the extinction of large animals , or megafauna , over the last 50 , 000 years attributes the losses to ... Found insideThe bibliographic information for this thesis is contained in UMI's Dissertation Abstracts database , the only central source for accessing almost every doctoral dissertation accepted in North America since 1861 . UMI Dissertation Services A ... Found inside – Page 6This fauna has come to be known by scientists as the Pleistocene megafauna . Common Pliestocene ... This faunal assemblage of grazers and browsers roamed throughout North America for several million years . The fossil record of these ... Found inside – Page 11Wolves no doubt watched the first humans arriving in North America , and during the next few millennia the two species developed shared dominance ... Almost all of these Pleistocene megafauna were larger than their extant related species . Found inside – Page 16588 some paleologists : e.g. David R. Horton , “ Red Kangaroos : Last of the Australian Megafauna , " Martin and Klein , eds . ... Prehistoric Overkill , ” 358-76 ; S. David Webb , “ Ten Million Years of Mammal Extinctions in North America , ” Martin ... Found inside – Page 522000 ) . During the mid 1960 ' s , a group of North American biologists studied potential sustainable economic development opportunities for the ... African megafauna might have similar ecological requirements to extinct dry forest megafauna . Found inside – Page 320North Dakota Geological Survey Miscellaneous Series 30 . McDonald , J.N. 1984. The reordered North American selection regime and late Quaternary megafaunal extinctions . In Quaternary Extinctions : A Prehistoric Revolution , eds . Found inside – Page xvAlthough the migrants to North America may have come inadvertently , they were prepared for what they found . They had lived in similar ... This ecosystem supported large megafauna , both herbivores and carnivores . Animals such as ground ... In Atlas of a Lost World, Craig Childs upends our notions of where these people came from and who they were. Found inside – Page 43In the centuries immediately following , the megafauna of the great island vanished . ... how could changes in climate and vegetation during the retreat of the last glacier lead to mass extinction in North America but not in Europe and Asia ? 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