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

• Autore: Grayson Donald K
• Pubblicazione: Salt Lake City, [Utah] : , : University of Utah Press, , 2016; ©2016
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (448 pages) : illustrations, tables
• Disciplina: 599.168
• Soggetto topico: Glacial epoch; Extinct mammals - North America; Extinct mammals - Great Basin
• Soggetto geografico: Great Basin History
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: WoolfendenWally <1941->
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Giant Sloths and Sabertooth Cats
• ISBN: 1-60781-470-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910158566503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II