Twilight of the Mammoths Ice Age Extinctions and the Rewilding of America

Name: Twilight of the Mammoths Ice Age Extinctions and the Rewilding of America
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ISBN: 9780520252431

ISBN-10: 0520252438

ISBN-13: 9780520252431

Edition: 2005

Authors: Paul S. Martin, Harry W. Greene

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As recently as 11,000 years ago--"near time" to geologists--mammoths, mastodons, gomphotheres, ground sloths, giant armadillos, native camels and horses, the dire wolf, and many other large mammals roamed North America. In what has become one of science's greatest riddles, these large animals vanished in North and South America around the time humans arrived at the end of the last great ice age. Part paleontological adventure and part memoir, Twilight of the Mammoths presents in detail internationally renowned paleoecologist Paul Martin's widely discussed and debated "overkill" hypothesis to explain these mysterious megafauna extinctions. Taking us from Rampart Cave in the Grand Canyon,…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 5/8/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 269
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English

Paul S. Martin is Emeritus Professor of Geosciences, Desert Laboratory, University of Arizona.



List of Illustrations


Foreword


Acknowledgments


Prologue



Discovering the Last Lost World


Radiocarbon Dating and Quaternary Extinctions



Overview of Overkill



Ground Sloth Dung and Packrat Middens


Giant Meat-Eating Bats?



Ground Sloths at Home


Cryptozoology, Ground Sloths, and Mapinguari National Park



Grand Canyon Suite: Mountain Goats, Condors, Equids, and Mammoths



Deadly Syncopation



Digging for the First People in America: High Stakes at Lule Springs


Tricks, Hoaxes, and Bad Science



Kill Sites, Sacred Sites



Models in Collision: Climatic Change versus Overkill



Restoration


Unexpected Ramifications of Ecological Change



Resurrection: The Past Is Future


Epilogue


References


Index