Flightless ducks, giant mice and pygmy mammoths: Late Quaternary extinctions on California's Channel Islands

World Archaeology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 3-20

  Rick, Torben C ^a   Hofman, Courtney A ^b   Braje, Todd J ^c   Maldonado, Jesús E ^a,d   Sillett, T Scott ^e   Danchisko, Kevin ^f   Erlandson, Jon M ^g  

^a SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

climate change; human environmental interactions; island ecology; Megafauna; overkill

Indexed keywords

EXTINCTION; FAUNA; MAMMOTH; PREHISTORIC; QUATERNARY; RODENT; WATERFOWL;

CALIFORNIA; CHANNEL ISLANDS [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

ANAS; ANIMALIA; AVES; MAMMALIA; MUS;

EID: 84858177963     PISSN: 00438243     EISSN: 14701375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00438243.2012.646101     Document Type: Article

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