Debate continues to rage between enthusiasts for climate change versus humans as a
cause of the catastrophic faunal extinctions that have occurred in the wake of human arrival …

▪ Abstract Neither geologists nor biologists have a definition that is capable of classifying
Madagascar unambiguously as an island or a continent; nor can they incorporate Malagasy …

Mammals are the dominant large animals of today, occurring in virtually every environment.
This book is an account of the remarkable 320 million year long fossil record that documents …

A database has been assembled with 278 age determinations for Madagascar. Materials
14C dated include pretreated sediments and plant macrofossils from cores and excavations …

ABSTRACT Quaternary (last 2.6 million years) botany involves studying plant megafossils
(eg tree stumps), macrofossils (eg seeds, leaves), and microfossils (eg pollen, spores) …

Recent archaeological research has fundamentally altered our understanding of the scope
of past human impacts on nondomesticated animal populations. Predictions derived from …

Recently expanded estimates for when humans arrived on Madagascar (up to
approximately 10 000 years ago) highlight questions about the causes of the island's …

Coring and excavations in a large sinkhole and cave system formed in an eolianite deposit
on the south coast of Kaua 'i in the Hawaiian Islands reveal a fossil site with remarkable …

The mammals that inhabit Madagascar are among the most extraordinary in the world. This
portable guide offers a full survey and classification of all the Malagasy mammals, both …

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 …