Abstract In the 1970s, Paul Martin proposed that big game hunters armed with fluted
projectile points colonized the Americas and drove the extinction of megafauna. Around fifty …

South America lost more genera in the Quaternary megafaunal extinction than any other
continent, but how it fits into the worldwide extinction has been unclear largely due to the …

Here I consider the evidence for the interactions of humans and South American late
Pleistocene megafauna, a subject not usually covered in much detail in general …

The last important–and possibly the most spectacular–turnover in South American mammal
history occurred around the Pleistocene-Holocene boundary, when 100% of megamam mal …

Humans, in conjunction with natural top-down processes and through a sequence of
cascading trophic interactions, may have contributed to the Pleistocene megafaunal …

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 …

Late Pleistocene extinctions are of interest to paleontological and anthropological research.
In North America and Australia, human occupation occurred during a short period of time …

Evidence from modern witnessed extinctions may help us separate contributions of human-
related and climate-related factors to the much-debated late-Quaternary extinctions of …

Understanding of the Pleistocene megafaunal extinctions has been advanced recently by
the application of simulation models and new developments in geochronological dating …

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 …