Insights into Holocene megafauna survival and extinction in southeastern Brazil from new AMS 14C dates

Quaternary Research (United States)

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 152-157

  Hubbe, Alex ^a,b   Hubbe, Mark ^c,d   Karmann, Ivo ^a   Cruz, Francisco W ^a   Neves, Walter A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Instituto do Carste   (Brazil)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL NORTE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Geochronology; Karst environment; Late Quaternary paleoclimate; Overkill; South America

Indexed keywords

CLIMATIC CHANGES; EARLY HOLOCENE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HOLOCENES; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; KARST ENVIRONMENT; LATE QUATERNARY; MEGAFAUNA; OVERKILL; PALEOCLIMATES; PLEISTOCENE; RADIOCARBON DATES; SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTHEASTERN BRAZIL;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EXTINCTION; FAUNA; FELID; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HOLOCENE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; KARST; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; RADIOCARBON DATING; SURVIVAL;

BRAZIL; SAO PAULO [BRAZIL];

SLOTHS; SMILODON FATALIS;

EID: 84874235555     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2012.11.009     Document Type: Article

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