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The Timing of Late Pleistocene Mammalian Extinctions in North America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

David J. Meltzer  and
Jim I. Mead
David J. Meltzer
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., 20560 USA
Jim I. Mead
Affiliation:
Laboratory for Paleoenvironmental Studies, Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721 USA
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Abstract

More than 375 14C dates from 150 fossil sites in North America have been analyzed to evaluate the question of extinction of Late Pleistocene megafauna. When critically evaluated, no 14C ages for any extinct Pleistocene genera are younger than 10,000 yr B.P.

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Short Paper
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Quaternary Research , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , January 1983 , pp. 130 - 135
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University of Washington

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