Elephant and mammoth hunting during the Paleolithic: a review of the relevant archaeological, ethnographic and ethno-historical records

A Agam, R Barkai - Quaternary, 2018 - mdpi.com
Proboscideans and humans have shared habitats across the Old and New Worlds for
hundreds of thousands of years. Proboscideans were included in the human diet starting …

[HTML][HTML] Comprehensive refutation of the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis (YDIH)

VT Holliday, TL Daulton, PJ Bartlein, MB Boslough… - Earth-Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
A series of publications purport to provide evidence that the Earth was subjected to an
extraterrestrial event or events at∼ 12.9 ka creating an environmental cataclysm and the …

Global response of fire activity to late Quaternary grazer extinctions

AT Karp, JT Faith, JR Marlon, AC Staver - Science, 2021 - science.org
Fire activity varies substantially at global scales because of the influence of climate, but at
broad spatiotemporal scales, the possible effects of herbivory on fire activity are unknown …

The evolution of the human trophic level during the Pleistocene

M Ben‐Dor, R Sirtoli, R Barkai - American journal of physical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The human trophic level (HTL) during the Pleistocene and its degree of variability serve,
explicitly or tacitly, as the basis of many explanations for human evolution, behavior, and …

[图书][B] First Peoples in a New World: Populating Ice Age America

DJ Meltzer - 2021 - books.google.com
" Sometime before 15,000 years ago, a band of hunter-gatherers arrived in Northeast Asia.
They continued east, becoming the first people to set foot in the Americas. They soon found …

Climate change, not human population growth, correlates with Late Quaternary megafauna declines in North America

M Stewart, WC Carleton, HS Groucutt - Nature Communications, 2021 - nature.com
The disappearance of many North American megafauna at the end of the Pleistocene is a
contentious topic. While the proposed causes for megafaunal extinction are varied, most …

Population reconstructions for humans and megafauna suggest mixed causes for North American Pleistocene extinctions

JM Broughton, EM Weitzel - Nature Communications, 2018 - nature.com
Dozens of large mammals such as mammoth and mastodon disappeared in North America
at the end of the Pleistocene with climate change and “overkill” by human hunters the most …

Overkill, glacial history, and the extinction of North America's Ice Age megafauna

DJ Meltzer - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
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 …

The restructuring of ecological networks by the Pleistocene extinction

MM Pires - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Most terrestrial large mammals went extinct on different continents at the end of the
Pleistocene, between 50,000 and 10,000 years ago. Besides the loss in species diversity …

The importance of traditional agricultural landscapes for preventing species extinctions

O Eriksson - Biodiversity and Conservation, 2021 - Springer
The main paradigm for protection of biodiversity, focusing on maintaining or restoring
conditions where humans leave no or little impact, risks overlooking anthropogenic …