In the Shadow of the Sabertooth Global Warming, the Origins of the First Americans, and the Terrible Beasts of the Pleistocene

Name: In the Shadow of the Sabertooth Global Warming, the Origins of the First Americans, and the Terrible Beasts of the Pleistocene
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ISBN: 9781849351409

ISBN-10: 1849351406

ISBN-13: 9781849351409

Edition: 2013

Authors: Doug Peacock

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Our climate is changing fast. The future is uncertain, probably fiery, and likely terrifying. Yet shifting weather patterns have threatened humans before, right here in North America, when people first colonized this continent. About 15,000 years ago, the weather began to warm, melting the huge glaciers of the Late Pleistocene. In this brand new landscape, humans managed to adapt to unfamiliar habitats and dangerous creatures in the midst of a wildly fluctuating climate. What was it like to live with huge pack-hunting lions, saber-toothed cats, dire wolves, and gigantic short-faced bears, to hunt now extinct horses, camels, and mammoth? Are there lessons for modern people lingering along…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: AK Press
Publication date: 6/4/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 230
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.50" long x 0.58" tall
Weight: 0.572
Language: English




Repatriation and the Greatest Adventure


Sidebar: a note on dating and carbon-14



The Lair 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


Acknowledgements


Bibliography


Index