EPR-chronostratigraphic data for the dynamics of the
Pleistocene environments.
Greatest tail ring widths (in mn) and scute counts from distal-most row of each ring, taken from a series of the modern nine- banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) for comparisons with a specimen of the
Pleistocene beautiful armadillo (D.
Key words:
Pleistocene, Yukon, Herschel Island, palaeontology, Beringia, mammals, fossils, Buckland Glaciation, Beaufort Shelf, chronology
The
Pleistocene is the epoch from 1.8 million to 10,000 before present years (BP) covering the world's recent period of repeated glaciations.
They found that Arctic Alaska, with its "full range of native species" and Ice Age fossils, is as close as we can come to an intact
Pleistocene landscape.
The area is covered by
Pleistocene sediments of the thickness of one hundred metres.
The first half of this book addresses the initial colonisation of Asia, Wallacea and Australia; the second deals with the
Pleistocene human remains from Australia.
EP researchers tend to examine existing behaviors and seek to explain their cause by taking what we know (or, rather, what we think we know) about our
Pleistocene ancestors and the problems they faced.
Fossil vertebrae of an amphiumid salamander (Amphiuma sp.) are reported from a late
Pleistocene (Rancholabrean NALMA) site of coastal Georgia.
And how is it that during the
Pleistocene Ice Age there were four or five interglacial periods when the atmosphere was on average up to 3degC warmer than today for a thousand years or more?
Among the topics are the cave at the end of the world: Cueva del Medio and the early colonization of southern South America, early human occupation in the southeastern plains of South America, mobility and human dispersion during the peopling of northwest South America between the late
Pleistocene and the early Holocene, Mexican prehistory and Chiquihuite Cave (northern Zacatecas): studying
Pleistocene human occupation as an exercise of skepticism, the end of an era: early Holocene Paleoindian caribou hunting in a Great Lakes glacial refugium, and where tides of genes perpetually ebb and flow: what DNA evidence says about the peopling of the Americas.