Quaternary extinctions : a prehistoric revolution
Paul S. Martin (Editor), Richard G. Klein (Editor)
Chapters by Murray, Merrilees, Horton, Hope and Kershaw
Print Book, English, ©1984
University of Arizona Press, Tucson, Ariz., ©1984
Aufsatzsammlung
x, 892 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
9780816508129, 9780816511006, 0816508127, 0816511004
10301944
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND AND THE BEASTS THEMSELVES: Nineteenth-Century explanations of pleistocene extinctions: a review and analysis / Donald K. Grayson
Who's who in the pleistocene: a mammalian bestiary / Elaine Anderson
New world mammoth distribution / Larry D. Agenbroad
A CLOSE LOOK AT SIGNIFICANT SITES: Hot springs, South Dakota: entrapment and taphonomy of Columbian Mammoth / Larry D. Agenbroad
The record of pleistocene megafaunal extinctions at Taima-taima, Northern Venezuela / Ruth Gruhn and Alan L. Bryan
Late pleistocene fossils of Natural Trap Cave, Wyoming, and the climatic model of extinction / B. Miles Gilbert and Larry D. Martin
Shasta ground sloth extinction: fossil packrat midden evidence from the Western Grand Canyon / Arthur M. Phillips
The significance of radiocarbon dates for Rancho La Brea / Leslie F. Marcus and Rainer Berger
THE THEORETICAL MARKETPLACE: GEOLOGIC-CLIMATIC MODELS: Ten million years of mammal extinctions in North America / S. David Webb
Pleistocene extinctions in the context of origination-extinction equilibria in cenozoic mammals / Philip G. Gingerich
Coevolutionary disequilibrium and pleistocene extinctions / Russell W. Graham and Ernest L. Lundelius
Pleistocene extinction and environmental change: case study of the appalachians / John E. Guilday
Mosaics, allelochemics, and nutrients: an ecological theory of late pleistocene megafaunal extinctions / R. Dale Guthrie
Seasonality, gestation time, and large mammal extinctions / Richard A. Kiltie
Environmental insularity and the extinction of the American mastodont / James E. Kingand and Jeffrey J. Saunders
THE THEORETICAL MARKETPLACE: CULTURAL MODELS: Stratigraphy and late pleistocene extinction in the United States / C. Vance Haynes
Prehistoric overkill: the global model / Paul S. Martin
The reordered North American selection regime and late quaternary megafaunal extinctions / Jerry N. McDonald
North American late quaternary extinctions and the radiocarbon record / Jim I. Mead and David J. Meltzer
Simulating overkill: experiments with the mosimann and martin model / Stephen L. Whittington and Bennett Dyke
Extinction of birds in the late pleistocene of North America / David W. Steadman and Paul S. Martin
ASIA AND AFRICA: MODEST LOSSES: Quaternary mammalian extinctions in northern Eurasia / N. K. Vereshchagin and G. F. Baryshnikov
Mammoths in China / Liu Tung-sheng and LiXing-guo
Faunal turnover and extinction rate in the levant / Eitan Tchernov
Mammalian extinctions and stone age people in Africa / Richard G. Klein
Extinctions in madagascar: the loss of the subfossil fauna / Robert E. Dewar
AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, AND THE ISLAND PACIFIC: SEVERE LOSSES: Extinctions downunder: a bestiary of extinct australian late pleistocene monotremes and marsupials / Peter Murray
Comings and goings of late quaternary mammals Near Perth in Extreme Southwestern Australia / Duncan Merrilees
Red Kangaroos: last of the Australian Megafauna / David R. Horton
Australian environmental change: timing, directions, magnitudes, and rates / Geoffrey Hope
Late cenozoic plant extinctions in Australia / A. Peter Kershaw
Moas, men, and middens / Michael M. Trotter and Beverley McCulloch
The extinction of Moa in Southern New Zealand / Atholl Anderson
Faunal extinction and prehistoric Man in New Zealand and the Pacific Islands / Richard Cassels
The role of polynesians in the extinction of the a vifauna of the Hawaiian Islands / Storrs L. Olson and Helen F. James
AN OVERVIEW: Who killed Cock Robin? an investigation of the extinction controversy / Larry G. Marshall
Explaining pleistocene extinctions: thoughts on the structure of a debate / Donald K. Grayson
Historic extinction: a Rosetta Stone for understanding prehistoric extinctions / Jared M. Diamond