Late Pleistocene mammalian extinctions in North America: Taxonomy, chronology, and explanations

@article{Grayson1991LatePM,
  title={Late Pleistocene mammalian extinctions in North America: Taxonomy, chronology, and explanations},
  author={Donald K. Grayson},
  journal={Journal of World Prehistory},
  year={1991},
  volume={5},
  pages={193-231}
}
  • D. Grayson
  • Published 1 September 1991
  • Environmental Science, Geography
  • Journal of World Prehistory
Toward the end of the Pleistocene, North America lost some 35 genera of mammals. It has long been assumed that all or virtually all of the extinctions occurred between 12,000 and 10,000 years ago, but detailed analyses of the radiocarbon chronology provide little support for this assumption, which seems to have been widely accepted because of the kinds of explanations felt most likely to account for the extinctions in the first place. Approaches that attribute the losses to human predation… 

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