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The volume contains summaries of facts, theories, and unsolved problems pertaining to the unexplained extinction of dozens of genera of mostly large terrestrial mammals, which occurred ca. 13,000 calendar years ago in North America and about 1,000 years later in South America. Another equally mysterious wave of extinctions affected large Caribbean islands around 5,000 years ago. The coupling of these extinctions with the earliest appearance of human beings has led to the suggestion that foraging humans are to blame, although major climatic shifts were also taking place in the Americas during some of the extinctions. The last published volume with similar (but not identical) themes -- Extinctions in Near Time -- appeared in 1999; since then a great deal of innovative, exciting new research has been done but has not yet been compiled and summarized. Different chapters in this volume provide in-depth resums 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 characteristics such as growth increments in mammoth and mastodont tusks, the clues from taphonomic research about large-mammal biology, the applications of dating methods to the extinctions debate, and archeological controversies concerning human hunting of large mammals.

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The volume contains summaries of facts, theories, and unsolved problems pertaining to the unexplained extinction of dozens of genera of mostly large terrestrial mammals, which occurred ca. 13,000 calendar years ago in North America and about 1,000 years later in South America. Another equally mysterious wave of extinctions affected large Caribbean islands around 5,000 years ago. The coupling of these extinctions with the earliest appearance of human beings has led to the suggestion that foraging humans are to blame, although major climatic shifts were also taking place in the Americas during some of the extinctions. The last published volume with similar (but not identical) themes -- Extinctions in Near Time-- appeared in 1999; since then a great deal of innovative, exciting new research has been done but has not yet been compiled and summarized. Different chapters in this volume provide in-depth resum�s 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 characteristics such as growth increments in mammoth and mastodont tusks, the clues from taphonomic research about large-mammal biology, the applications of dating methods to the extinctions debate, and archeological controversies concerning human hunting of large mammals.

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Title American Megafaunal Extinctions at the End of the Pleistocene
Author Gary Haynes (Editor)
Binding Hardcover
Edition number 2009th
Edition 2009
Pages 201
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Springer
Date 2009-01-29
Illustrated Yes
ISBN 9781402087929 / 1402087926
Weight 1.65 lbs (0.75 kg)
Dimensions 11.1 x 8.5 x 0.6 in (28.19 x 21.59 x 1.52 cm)
Library of Congress subjects Paleontology - Pleistocene, Paleoecology - Pleistocene
Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008930995
Dewey Decimal Code 550

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Gary Haynes, archeologist and author of two related books, Mammoths, Mastodonts, and Elephants (Cambridge University Press, 1993) and The Early Settlement of North America: The Clovis Era (Cambridge University Press, 2002). He has spent nearly 30 years working in actualistic studies of large-mammal bones in Africa, Australia, and North America, and has also been deeply involved in Paleoindian research for even longer.

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Springer, 2009. Hardcover. 4to. Very good condition. No dustjacket. Includes papers on Sudden deaths: The Chronology of Terminal Pleistocene Megafaunal Extinction; Estimates of Clovis-era Megafaunal Populations and Their Extinction Risks; Paleobiology and Extinction of Proboscideans in the Great Lakes Region of North America; Human Prey Choice in the Late Pleistocene and Its Relation to Megafaunal Extinctions; Ancient DNA and the Genetic Consequences of Late Pleistocene Extinctions; Insulae infortunatae: Establishing a Chronology for Late Quaternary Mammal Extinctions in West Indies etc. Part of the Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology Series. 201pp. ISBN-13 9781402087929. .