The Great Basin: A Natural Prehistory

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part One: The Great Basins; Chapter 1: Discovering a Great Basin; Chapter Notes; Chapter 2: Modern Definitions of the Great Basin; The Hydrographic Great Basin; The Physiographic Great Basin; The Floristic Great Basin; T...

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1. Verfasser: Grayson, Donald K. 1945- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley University of California Press 2011
Ausgabe:Online-Ausg.
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Zusammenfassung:Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part One: The Great Basins; Chapter 1: Discovering a Great Basin; Chapter Notes; Chapter 2: Modern Definitions of the Great Basin; The Hydrographic Great Basin; The Physiographic Great Basin; The Floristic Great Basin; The Ethnographic Great Basin; Choosing a Great Basin; Chapter Notes; Part Two: Some Ice Age Background; Chapter 3: Glaciers, Sea Levels, and the Peopling of the Americas; The Bering Land Bridge and the Human Arrival; Identifying the Earliest American Archaeology; The Earliest American Archaeology
Chapter NotesChapter 4: The End of the North American Pleistocene: Extinct Mammals and Early Peoples; The Mammals; A Note on Eurasian Extinctions; Back to North America; What Caused the Extinctions?; Chapter Notes; Part Three: The Late Ice Age Great Basin; Chapter 5: The Late Pleistocene Physical Environment: Lakes and Glaciers; Modern Great Basin Lakes; Pleistocene Lakes in the Great Basin; Great Basin Glaciers; The Relationship between Pleistocene Glaciers and Lakes in the Great Basin; Pluvial Lakes, Glaciers, and Late Pleistocene Climates; Chapter Notes
Chapter 6: Late Pleistocene Vegetation of the Great BasinLearning about Ancient Vegetation; Five Regional Pictures; A General Look at Late Pleistocene Great Basin Vegetation; Great Basin Conifers in Deeper Historical Perspective; Chapter Notes; Chapter 7: Late Pleistocene Vertebrates of the Great Basin; The Extinct Late Pleistocene Mammals of the Great Basin; Extinct Late Pleistocene Birds; Altered Late Pleistocene Distributions of Existing Great Basin Mammals; Why Are There Fishes in Devils Hole, but None in the Great Salt Lake?; Other Vertebrates; Chapter Notes
Beschreibung:Description based upon print version of record
Druck-Ausgabe: Grayson, Donald K.: The Great Basin
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (XIII, 418 S.)
ISBN:9780520948716
9780520267473