Twilight of the mammoths: ice age extinctions and the rewilding of America
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-241) and index Discovering the last lost world : radiocarbon dating and Quaternary extinctions -- Overview of overkill -- Ground sloth dung and packrat middens : giant meat-eating bats? -- Ground sloths at home : cryptozoology, ground sloths, and Mapinguari National Park -- Grand Canyon suite : mountain goats, condors, equids, and mammoths -- Deadly syncopation -- Digging for the first people in America : high stakes at Tule Springs : tricks, hoaxes, and bad science -- Kill sites, sacred sites -- Models in collision : climatic change versus overkill -- Restoration : unexpected ramifications of ecological change -- Resurrection : the past is future Annotation As recently as 11,000 years ago--"near time" to geologists--mammoths, mastodons, gomphotheres, ground sloths, giant armadillos, native camels and horses, the dire wolf, and many other large mammals roamed North America. In what has become one of science's greatest riddles, these large animals vanished in North and South America around the time humans arrived at the end of the last great ice age. Part paleontological adventure and part memoir,Twilight of the Mammothspresents in detail internationally renowned paleoecologist Paul Martin's widely discussed and debated "overkill" hypothesis to explain these mysterious megafauna extinctions. Taking us from Rampart Cave in the Grand Canyon, where he finds himself "chest deep in sloth dung," to other important fossil sites in Arizona and Chile, Martin's engaging book, written for a wide audience, uncovers our rich evolutionary legacy and shows why he has come to believe that the earliest Americans literally hunted these animals to death.As he discusses the discoveries that brought him to this hypothesis, Martin relates many colorful stories and gives a rich overview of the field of paleontology as well as his own fascinating career. He explores the ramifications of the overkill hypothesis for similar extinctions worldwide and examines other explanations for the extinctions, including climate change. Martin's visionary thinking about our missing megafauna offers inspiration and a challenge for today's conservation efforts as he speculates on what we might do to remedy this situation--both in our thinking about what is "natural" and in the natural world itself |
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| spelling | Martin, Paul S., (Paul Schultz) Verfasser aut Twilight of the mammoths ice age extinctions and the rewilding of America Paul S. Martin ; foreword by Harry W. Greene Ice age extinctions and the rewilding of America Rewilding of America Berkeley University of California Press ©2005 1 Online-Ressource (xix, 250 pages) txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Organisms and environments 8 Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-241) and index Discovering the last lost world : radiocarbon dating and Quaternary extinctions -- Overview of overkill -- Ground sloth dung and packrat middens : giant meat-eating bats? -- Ground sloths at home : cryptozoology, ground sloths, and Mapinguari National Park -- Grand Canyon suite : mountain goats, condors, equids, and mammoths -- Deadly syncopation -- Digging for the first people in America : high stakes at Tule Springs : tricks, hoaxes, and bad science -- Kill sites, sacred sites -- Models in collision : climatic change versus overkill -- Restoration : unexpected ramifications of ecological change -- Resurrection : the past is future Annotation As recently as 11,000 years ago--"near time" to geologists--mammoths, mastodons, gomphotheres, ground sloths, giant armadillos, native camels and horses, the dire wolf, and many other large mammals roamed North America. In what has become one of science's greatest riddles, these large animals vanished in North and South America around the time humans arrived at the end of the last great ice age. Part paleontological adventure and part memoir,Twilight of the Mammothspresents in detail internationally renowned paleoecologist Paul Martin's widely discussed and debated "overkill" hypothesis to explain these mysterious megafauna extinctions. Taking us from Rampart Cave in the Grand Canyon, where he finds himself "chest deep in sloth dung," to other important fossil sites in Arizona and Chile, Martin's engaging book, written for a wide audience, uncovers our rich evolutionary legacy and shows why he has come to believe that the earliest Americans literally hunted these animals to death.As he discusses the discoveries that brought him to this hypothesis, Martin relates many colorful stories and gives a rich overview of the field of paleontology as well as his own fascinating career. He explores the ramifications of the overkill hypothesis for similar extinctions worldwide and examines other explanations for the extinctions, including climate change. Martin's visionary thinking about our missing megafauna offers inspiration and a challenge for today's conservation efforts as he speculates on what we might do to remedy this situation--both in our thinking about what is "natural" and in the natural world itself From 10 thousand to 2 million years ago fast NATURE / Fossils bisacsh NATURE / Animals / Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures bisacsh SCIENCE / Paleontology bisacsh Extinction (Biology) fast Nature / Effect of human beings on fast Paleontology fast Pleistocene Geologic Epoch fast Restoration ecology fast Paläontologie Paleontology Pleistocene Paleontology North America Extinction (Biology) Nature Effect of human beings on Restoration ecology Aussterben (DE-588)4003882-8 gnd rswk-swf Eiszeit (DE-588)4014129-9 gnd rswk-swf Großwild (DE-588)4222894-3 gnd rswk-swf Nordamerika Amerika (DE-588)4001670-5 gnd rswk-swf Amerika (DE-588)4001670-5 g Großwild (DE-588)4222894-3 s Eiszeit (DE-588)4014129-9 s Aussterben (DE-588)4003882-8 s 1\p DE-604 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=147000 Aggregator Volltext 1\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk |
| spellingShingle | Martin, Paul S., (Paul Schultz) Twilight of the mammoths ice age extinctions and the rewilding of America NATURE / Fossils bisacsh NATURE / Animals / Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures bisacsh SCIENCE / Paleontology bisacsh Extinction (Biology) fast Nature / Effect of human beings on fast Paleontology fast Pleistocene Geologic Epoch fast Restoration ecology fast Paläontologie Paleontology Pleistocene Paleontology North America Extinction (Biology) Nature Effect of human beings on Restoration ecology Aussterben (DE-588)4003882-8 gnd Eiszeit (DE-588)4014129-9 gnd Großwild (DE-588)4222894-3 gnd |
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| title | Twilight of the mammoths ice age extinctions and the rewilding of America |
| title_alt | Ice age extinctions and the rewilding of America Rewilding of America |
| title_auth | Twilight of the mammoths ice age extinctions and the rewilding of America |
| title_exact_search | Twilight of the mammoths ice age extinctions and the rewilding of America |
| title_full | Twilight of the mammoths ice age extinctions and the rewilding of America Paul S. Martin ; foreword by Harry W. Greene |
| title_fullStr | Twilight of the mammoths ice age extinctions and the rewilding of America Paul S. Martin ; foreword by Harry W. Greene |
| title_full_unstemmed | Twilight of the mammoths ice age extinctions and the rewilding of America Paul S. Martin ; foreword by Harry W. Greene |
| title_short | Twilight of the mammoths |
| title_sort | twilight of the mammoths ice age extinctions and the rewilding of america |
| title_sub | ice age extinctions and the rewilding of America |
| topic | NATURE / Fossils bisacsh NATURE / Animals / Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures bisacsh SCIENCE / Paleontology bisacsh Extinction (Biology) fast Nature / Effect of human beings on fast Paleontology fast Pleistocene Geologic Epoch fast Restoration ecology fast Paläontologie Paleontology Pleistocene Paleontology North America Extinction (Biology) Nature Effect of human beings on Restoration ecology Aussterben (DE-588)4003882-8 gnd Eiszeit (DE-588)4014129-9 gnd Großwild (DE-588)4222894-3 gnd |
| topic_facet | NATURE / Fossils NATURE / Animals / Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures SCIENCE / Paleontology Extinction (Biology) Nature / Effect of human beings on Paleontology Pleistocene Geologic Epoch Restoration ecology Paläontologie Paleontology Pleistocene Paleontology North America Nature Effect of human beings on Aussterben Eiszeit Großwild Nordamerika Amerika |
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