Pleistocene Overkill and North American Mammalian Extinctions

Annual Review of Anthropology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 33-53

  Meltzer, David J ^a  

^a SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancient DNA; Climate change; Clovis; Extinction; Hunting; Megafauna

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DNA; EXTINCTION; HUNTING; MAMMAL; PALEOECOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE;

NORTH AMERICA;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84928711960     PISSN: 00846570     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-anthro-102214-013854     Document Type: Article

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