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

Informationen zum Autor Paul S. Martin is Emeritus Professor of Geosciences! Desert Laboratory! University of Arizona. Klappentext "Paul S. Martin's innovative ideas on late quaternary extinctions and wildlife restoration have fueled one of science's most stimulating recent debates. He expounds them vividly here! and defends them eloquently. 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 or not you agree with Paul Martin! he has shaped how we think about our Pleistocene ancestors and their role in transforming this planet."-Ross D. E. MacPhee! Curator of Mammalogy! American Museum of Natural History Zusammenfassung Taking readers from Rampart Cave in the Grand Canyon, to other important fossil sites in Arizona and Chile, this book covers the rich evolutionary legacy and shows why the author has come to believe that the earliest Americans literally hunted these animals to death. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Prologue 1 Discovering the Last Lost World Radiocarbon Dating and Quaternary Extinctions 2 Overview of Overkill 3 Ground Sloth Dung and Packrat Middens Giant Meat-Eating Bats? 4 Ground Sloths at Home Cryptozoology! Ground Sloths! and Mapinguari National Park 5 Grand Canyon Suite: Mountain Goats! Condors! Equids! and Mammoths 6 Deadly Syncopation 7 Digging for the First People in America: High Stakes at Tule Springs Tricks! Hoaxes! and Bad Science 8 Kill Sites! Sacred Sites 9 Models in Collision: Climatic Change versus Overkill 10 Restoration Unexpected Ramifications of Ecological Change 11 Resurrection: The Past Is Future Epilogue References Index ...

Product details

• Authors: P S Martin, Paul S. Martin, Martin Paul S., Martin/Greene
• Assisted by: Harry W. Greene (Editor), Paul S. Martin (Editor), Harry W. Greene (Foreword)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.05.2007
• EAN: 9780520252431
• ISBN: 978-0-520-25243-1
• No. of pages: 269
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 222 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Organisms and Environments; Organisms and Environments (Pa; Organisms and Environments
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Palaeontology; USA, NATURE / Endangered Species, SCIENCE / Paleontology, Endangered species & extinction of species, United States of America, USA, Palaeontology, Endangered species and extinction of species