Timing of Quaternary megafaunal extinction in South America in relation to human arrival and climate change

Quaternary International

Volumn 217, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 10-29

  Barnosky, Anthony D ^a   Lindsey, Emily L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ARCHAEOLOGY; FAUNA; MASS EXTINCTION; PALEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY; RADIOCARBON DATING; YOUNGER DRYAS;

SOUTH AMERICA;

MYLODON;

EID: 77950519630     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2009.11.017     Document Type: Article

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