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Author Grayson, Donald K., author

Title Giant sloths and sabertooth cats : extinct mammals and the archaeology of the Ice Age Great Basin / Donald K. Grayson ; with animal reconstructions by Wally Woolfenden
Published Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource (xxvi, 421 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents 1. A sloth in prison -- 2. The Great Basin now and then -- 3. A zoologically impoverished world -- 4. Dating an ass -- 5. A stable of ground sloths -- 6. Extinct mammals, dangerous plants, and the early peoples of the Great Basin -- 7. Clovis, comets, and climate : explaining the extinctions
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-398) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Extinct mammals -- Great Basin
Extinct mammals -- North America
Glacial epoch.
NATURE -- Animals -- Mammals.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- Mammals.
Extinct mammals
Glacial epoch
Archäologie
Archäologische Stätte
Fossil
Fossile Säugetiere
Fundstätte
Palökologie
Pleistozän
Spurenfossil
SUBJECT Great Basin -- History
Subject North America
United States -- Great Basin
Großes Becken
Nordamerika
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Woolfenden, Wally, 1941- artist.
ISBN 9781607814702
1607814706