American Megafaunal Extinctions at the End of the Pleistocene

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Haynes, Gary (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
• Series: Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology,
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Paleontology.; Geobiology.; Climate change.; Archaeology.; Earth Sciences.; Climate Change.; Biogeosciences.

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 myster...