Ever since Vic and I moved here, I’ve been trying to make sense of the fossil record of Orange County. When I lived in Colorado, the fossil fuss was over dinosaurs, but it seems that all we ever hear ...

Faunal sequence in Europe: Setting the stage; The Villafranchin, prelude to the Ice Age; Chronology of the Ice Age; The age of interglacials; The age of glaciations -- Pleistocene mammal species: ...

For some 37,000 years, the soft, furry body of a three-week-old saber-toothed 'kitten' lay cradled by Arctic permafrost, its head, limbs, paws, and torso remaining almost perfectly preserved by the ...

Paleodietary studies of the fossil record are impeded by a lack of reliable and unequivocal tracers. Scientists have now tested a new method, the isotope analysis of zinc isotopes from the tooth ...

A small, but significant assemblage of Late Pleistocene mammals was recovered from an eroding shoreline at Paw Paw Cove located on the Chesapeake Bay side of Tilghman Island, Talbot County, Maryland.

Archaeologists have uncovered another piece of evidence that seems to exonerate some of the earliest humans in North America of charges of exterminating 35 genera of Pleistocene epoch mammals. The ...

About two million years ago Earth entered the last Ice Age, known more correctly as the Pleistocene epoch. Paleo-humans coexisted with bizarre-looking Ice Age mammals like woolly mammoths, ...

SIR ARTHUR SMITH WOODWARD'S presidential address to Section H (Anthropology) is an account of recent progress in the study of early man. Palaeontology and geology contribute much to our understanding ...

Aim: To reconstruct the palaeoenvironments of megafauna-bearing sites from Pleistocene Southeast Asia, and to describe general environmental changes in the region. Location: Indochina and Sundaland, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The hypothesis that giant Pleistocene mammals shaped reproductive traits of many tropical plants could help explain anomalous fruits which ...