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Autore |
Grayson Donald K |
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Titolo |
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 |
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Salt Lake City, [Utah] : , : University of Utah Press, , 2016 |
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©2016 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (448 pages) : illustrations, tables |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Glacial epoch |
Extinct mammals - North America |
Extinct mammals - Great Basin |
Electronic books. |
Great Basin History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- A Tiny Bit of Background -- A Sloth in Prison -- The Great Basin Now and Then -- A Zoologically Impoverished World -- Dating an Ass -- A Stable of Ground Sloths -- Extinct Mammals, Dangerous Plants, and the Early Peoples of the Great Basin -- Clovis, Comets, and Climate: Explaining the Extinctions -- Notes -- References -- Index. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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As the Ice Age came to an end, North America lost a stunning variety of animals.Mammoths, mastodon, llamas, ground-dwelling sloths the size of elephants, beavers the size of bears, pronghorn antelope the size of poodles, and carnivores to chase them--sabertooth cats, dire wolves, American lions and cheetahs; these and many more were gone by. |
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