Clovis groups in Late Pleistocene North America occasionally hunted several now extinct
large mammals. But whether their hunting drove 37 genera of animals to extinction has been …

Abstract The North American archaeological phenomenon known as Clovis is famous for the
fact that a number of sites that contain diagnostic Clovis artifacts also contain the remains of …

Although empirical issues surround the when, how, and who questions of New World
colonization, much of current debate hinges on theoretical problems because it has become …

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 …

The late Pleistocene witnessed the extinction of 35 genera of North American mammals. The
last appearance dates of 16 of these genera securely fall between 12,000 and 10,000 …

In a recent JAS article (“A requiem for North American overkill”), Donald Grayson and David
Meltzer [39] attack Paul Martin's “overkill” hypothesis that humans caused America's …

Colonization of the Americas was the last continental migration of anatomically modern
Homo sapiens. Clovis technology in association with extinct Pleistocene fauna clearly …

" What caused the extinction of so many animals at or near the end of the Pleistocene? Was
it overkill by human hunters, the result of a major climatic change or was it just a part of some …

The debate over the cause of North American Pleistocene extinctions may be further from
resolution than it has ever been in its 200-year history and is certainly more heated than it …

The end of the Pleistocene in North America saw the extinction of 38 genera of mostly large
mammals. As their disappearance seemingly coincided with the arrival of people in the …