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The Pleistocene Social Contract: Culture and Cooperation in Human Evolution (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 18 ratings — published
Zooarchaeology and Modern Human Origins: Human Hunting Behavior during the Later Pleistocene (Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 2013
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 7,622 ratings — published 2022
First Peoples in a New World (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.52 — 29 ratings — published
Across Atlantic Ice: The Origin of America's Clovis Culture (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 215 ratings — published 2012
Animal Weapons: The Evolution of Battle (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.88 — 678 ratings — published 2014
American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as pleistocene)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,354 ratings — published 2016
The Invaders: How Humans and Their Dogs Drove Neanderthals to Extinction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as pleistocene)
avg rating 3.71 — 627 ratings — published 2015
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 82,479 ratings — published 2014
Adam kam aus Afrika – aber wie? Zur frühesten Geschichte der Menschheit (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
In the Shadow of the Sabertooth: Global Warming, the Origins of the First Americans, and the Terribl (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 126 ratings — published 2013
Frozen Earth: The Once and Future Story of Ice Ages (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 196 ratings — published 2004
Once & Future Giants: What Ice Age Extinctions Tell Us About the Fate of Earth's Largest Animals (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 211 ratings — published 2011
Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 1,889 ratings — published 2002
“If a failure to preserve and consider potentially controversial evidence has frustrated a full understanding of the Hypogeum, then the same is also true for the megalithic temples and even the prehistoric cave sites in Malta. Thus, Mifsud points out that archaeologists excavating Ghar Dalam cave in the early twentieth century [...] 'discovered several knives, scrapers, borers and burins in previously undisturbed deposits, and although stratigraphically Pleistocene, they have been arbitrarily attributed to the Neolithic'.”
― Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization
― Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization
“As the discoverer and principal excavator of Murray Springs, [...] Haynes deserves credit for drawing attention to a very curious aspect of the site--a distinct dark layer of soil draped 'like a shrink-wrap,' as Allen West puts it, over the top of the Clovis remains and of the extinct megafauna--including Eloise.
Haynes has identified this 'black mat' (his term) not only at Murray Springs but at dozens of other sites across North America, and was the first to acknowledge its clear and obvious association with the Late Pleistocene Extinction Event. he speaks of the 'remarkable circumstances' surrounding the event, the abrupt die-off on a continental scale of all large mammals 'immediately before deposition of the ... black mat,' and the total absence thereafter of 'mammoth, mastodon, horse, camel, dire wold, American lion, tapir and other [megafauna], as well as Clovis people.'
Haynes notes also that 'The basal black mat contact marks a major climate change from the warm dry climate of the terminal Allerod to the glacially cold Younger Dryas.'
From roughly 18,000 years ago, and for several thousand years thereafter, global temperatures had been slowly but steadily rising and the ice sheets melting. Our ancestors would have had reason to hope that earth's long winter was at last coming to an end and that a new era of congenial climate beckoned. This process of warming became particularly pronounced after about 14,500 years ago. Then suddenly, around 12,800 years ago, the direction of climate change reversed and the world turned dramatically, instantly cold--as cold as it had been at the peak of the Ice Age many thousands of years earlier. This deep freeze--the mysterious epoch now known as the Younger Dryas--lasted for approximately 1,200 years until 11,600 years ago, at which point the climate flipped again, global temperatures shot up rapidly, the remnant ice sheets melted and collapsed into the oceans, and the world became as warm as it is today.”
― America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization
Haynes has identified this 'black mat' (his term) not only at Murray Springs but at dozens of other sites across North America, and was the first to acknowledge its clear and obvious association with the Late Pleistocene Extinction Event. he speaks of the 'remarkable circumstances' surrounding the event, the abrupt die-off on a continental scale of all large mammals 'immediately before deposition of the ... black mat,' and the total absence thereafter of 'mammoth, mastodon, horse, camel, dire wold, American lion, tapir and other [megafauna], as well as Clovis people.'
Haynes notes also that 'The basal black mat contact marks a major climate change from the warm dry climate of the terminal Allerod to the glacially cold Younger Dryas.'
From roughly 18,000 years ago, and for several thousand years thereafter, global temperatures had been slowly but steadily rising and the ice sheets melting. Our ancestors would have had reason to hope that earth's long winter was at last coming to an end and that a new era of congenial climate beckoned. This process of warming became particularly pronounced after about 14,500 years ago. Then suddenly, around 12,800 years ago, the direction of climate change reversed and the world turned dramatically, instantly cold--as cold as it had been at the peak of the Ice Age many thousands of years earlier. This deep freeze--the mysterious epoch now known as the Younger Dryas--lasted for approximately 1,200 years until 11,600 years ago, at which point the climate flipped again, global temperatures shot up rapidly, the remnant ice sheets melted and collapsed into the oceans, and the world became as warm as it is today.”
― America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization
