The catastrophic extinction of North American mammoths and mastodonts

World Archaeology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 391-416

  Haynes, Gary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Extinction; Mammoth; Mastodont; North America; Palaeoindian; Patch choice

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; EXTINCTION;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0036187632     PISSN: 00438243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00438240120107440     Document Type: Article

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