Giant sloths and sabertooth cats : extinct mammals and the archaeology of the Ice Age Great Basin /

Grayson, Donald K.,

Giant sloths and sabertooth cats : extinct mammals and the archaeology of the Ice Age Great Basin / Donald K. Grayson ; with animal reconstructions by Wally Woolfenden. - Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, (c)2016. - 1 online resource (xxvi, 421 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Includes bibliographies and index.

1. A sloth in prison -- 2. The Great Basin now and then -- 3. A zoologically impoverished world -- 4. Dating an ass -- 5. A stable of ground sloths -- 6. Extinct mammals, dangerous plants, and the early peoples of the Great Basin -- 7. Clovis, comets, and climate : explaining the extinctions.



9781607814702


Extinct mammals--Great Basin.
Extinct mammals--North America.
Glacial epoch.


Electronic Books.

QL707 / .G536 2016