Extinctions of big game

Encyclopedia of Archaeology

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1365-1374

  Surovell, Todd A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Blitzkrieg; Climate change; Colonization of australia; Hyperdisease; Mammoth; New world colonization; Overkill; Palaeo indians; Palaeolithic; Pleistocene extinctions; Sitzkrieg

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349210983     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-012373962-9.00033-9     Document Type: Chapter

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