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In the shadow of the Sabertooth : a renegade naturalist considers global warming, the first Americans and the terrible beasts of the Pleistocene / Doug Peacock.
- Title
- In the shadow of the Sabertooth : a renegade naturalist considers global warming, the first Americans and the terrible beasts of the Pleistocene / Doug Peacock.
- Author
- Peacock, Doug
- Publication
- Petrolia, Calif. : CounterPunch, 2013.
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- Additional Authors
- Grant, Becky
- Description
- 219 p. : ill., map; 19 cm.
- Summary
- For the past 12,000 years, the earth has experienced a relatively stable climate. Today, that predictability has ended, and global warming is our new reality. Yet such shifting weather patterns threatened Homo sapiens once before, right here in North America as the continent was first being colonized. About 15,000 years ago, the weather began to warm, melting the glaciers of the Late Pleistocene and driving the beasts of the Ice Age toward extinction. In this new landscape, humans managed to adapt to unfamiliar habitats and dangerous creatures in the midst of a wildly fluctuating climate. Are there lessons for modern people lingering along this ancient trail? The author explores the full range of climate change, from the death of the Pleistocene megafauna to the disappearance of today's ice.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references : (p .207-213 and index).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Repatriation and the greatest adventure -- Sidebar: a note on dating and carbon-14 -- The liar of the short-faced bear : forbidding glaciers, man-eating predators and poisonous plants in ice-age America -- Archaeology and the shape of the journey -- Invisible people: life before the pre-last glacial maximum : Ice-age people in the far North of Siberia and America -- Mingled fates of Homo Sapiens and Ursus Arctos Horribilis : grizzly bears as proxy for early human occupation of the Americas -- Braving the Northwest coast during the time of icebergs : maritime learning and innovation in North America -- Pre-Clovis people : the significance of people in the contiguous American states before Clovis -- Clovis : the great American invention? -- Endgame : late Pleistocene extinction and the sudden sunset of Clovis.
- ISBN
- 9781849351409 (pbk.)
- 1849351406 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2013930247
- OCLC
- 850400796
- SCSB-12186984
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library