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Environments and extinctions : man in late glacial North America

Title: Environments and extinctions : man in late glacial North America / edited by Jim I. Mead and David J. Meltzer.
Publication: Orono, Me. : Center for the Study of Early Man, University of Maine at Orono, ©1985.

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Description

xii, 209 p. : ill., maps; 28 cm.

Summary

10 papers using new conceptual frameworks to interpret late Quaternary cultural and environmental remains. Chapters are composed largely of the proceedings of a symposium held at the Society for American Archaeology meetings in 1982.

Series Statement

Peopling of the Americas. Edited volume series

Uniform Title

Peopling of the Americas. Edited volume series.

Subject

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings.

Note

Papers presented in conjunction with a special symposium on Quaternary research at the 1982 SAA meeting in Minneapolis, Minn.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents

Shasta ground sloth extinction: a test of the Blitzkrieg model / Paul S. Martin, Robert S. Thompson, and Austin Long -- The effect of the end of the Pleistocene on man in North America / L.D. Martin, R.A. Rogers, and A.M. Neuner -- Herpetofaunas in the Late Pleistocene : extinctions and extralimital forms / Dougals J. Brewer -- Paleoenvironmental reconstruction at Meadowcroft Rockshelter, Washington County, Pennsylvania / J.M. Adovasio, R.C. Carlisle, K.A. Cushman, J. Donahue, J.E. Guilday, W.C. Johnson, K. Lord, P.W. Parmalee, R. Stuckenrath, and P.W. Wiegman -- The age and environment of the Mount Moriah (Lake Mohave) occupation at Smith Creek Cave, Nevada / Robert S. Thompson -- Dating the peopling of North America / Richard Shutler, Jr. -- Early man in the New World: an evaluation of the radiocarbon dated Pre-Clovis sites in the Americas / Michael R. Waters -- Dating late Pleistocene extinctions: theoretical issues, analytical bias, and substantive results / David J. Meltzer and Jim I. Mead -- The Cedar Creek transcripts: a roundtable discussion of Pleistocene extinctions / transcribed and edited by David J. Meltzer.

ISBN

091293302X
9780912933023

LCCN

86211716

OCLC

ocm13190845
13190845
SCSB-646271

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Princeton University Library