One of the great debates about extinction is whether humans or climatic change caused the
demise of the Pleistocene megafauna. Evidence from paleontology, climatology …

Between fifty and ten thousand years ago, most large mammals became extinct everywhere
except Africa. Slow-breeding animals also were hard hit, regardless of size. This unusual …

Despite decades of research, the roles of climate and humans in driving the dramatic
extinctions of large-bodied mammals during the Late Quaternary period remain contentious …

This paper provides an overview of the contentious issue of global megafaunal extinctions in
the Late Quaternary. The main proposed causes are 'overkill', environmental change or a …

In this paper, we expand upon a prior study [Surovell, TA, Brantingham, PJ, 2007. A note on
the use of temporal frequency distributions in studies of prehistoric demography. Journal of …

Woolly mammoths inhabited Eurasia and North America from late Middle Pleistocene (300
ky BP [300,000 years before present]), surviving through different climatic cycles until they …

The extinction of the many well-known large mammals (megafauna) of the Late Pleistocene
epoch has usually been attributed to 'overkill'by human hunters, climatic/vegetational …

Potential climatic changes of the near future have important characteristics that differentiate
them from the largest magnitude and most rapid of climatic changes of the Quaternary …

The cave bear (Ursus spelaeus) was one of several spectacular megafaunal species that
became extinct in northern Eurasia during the late Quaternary. Vast numbers of their …

The British Palaeolithic provides the first academic synthesis of the entire British
Palaeolithic, from the earliest occupation (currently understood to be around 980,000 years …