Tag: Pleistocene

Free Download Amanuel Beyin, "Handbook of Pleistocene Archaeology of Africa: Hominin behavior, geography, and chronology"
English | ISBN: 3031202899 | 2023 | 2291 pages | PDF | 149 MB
This handbook showcases an Africa-wide compendium of Stone Age archaeological sites and methodological advances that have improved our understanding of hominin lifeways and biogeography in the continent. The focal time spans the Pleistocene Epoch (c. 2.5 million-11,700 years ago) during which important human traits, such as obligate bipedalism that freed the hands to engage in creative activities, a large brain relative to body size, language, and social complexity, developed in the general forms that they are found today. The handbook is the first of its kind, and it is expected to play a significant role in human evolutionary research by:

Free Download Guadalupe Sánchez, "Los Primeros Mexicanos: Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene People of Sonora"
English | 2016 | pages: 177 | ISBN: 0816530637 | PDF | 8,5 mb
In 1927, near the town of Folsom, New Mexico, a spectacular discovery altered our understanding of early humans on the American continent. Scientists excavating a bison from the late Pleistocene age discovered a fluted projectile point wedged between the animal’s ribs-forceful evidence that humans existed during the Ice Age together with now-extinct animals. Subsequent discoveries at nearby Clovis introduced scientists to the first large-scale occupation of the Americas-Clovis culture-with a time span of 13,250 to 12,500 years ago.

Free Download Guadalupe Sánchez, "Los Primeros Mexicanos: Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene People of Sonora"
English | 2016 | pages: 177 | ISBN: 0816530637 | PDF | 8,5 mb
In 1927, near the town of Folsom, New Mexico, a spectacular discovery altered our understanding of early humans on the American continent. Scientists excavating a bison from the late Pleistocene age discovered a fluted projectile point wedged between the animal’s ribs-forceful evidence that humans existed during the Ice Age together with now-extinct animals. Subsequent discoveries at nearby Clovis introduced scientists to the first large-scale occupation of the Americas-Clovis culture-with a time span of 13,250 to 12,500 years ago.

Free Download Gary Haynes, "American Megafaunal Extinctions at the End of the Pleistocene"
English | 2009 | pages: 200 | ISBN: 9048179890, 1402087926 | PDF | 4,7 mb
The volume contains summaries of facts, theories, and unsolved problems pertaining to the unexplained extinction of dozens of genera of mostly large terrestrial mammals, which occurred ca. 13,000 calendar years ago in North America and about 1,000 years later in South America. Another equally mysterious wave of extinctions affected large Caribbean islands around 5,000 years ago. The coupling of these extinctions with the earliest appearance of human beings has led to the suggestion that foraging humans are to blame, although major climatic shifts were also taking place in the Americas during some of the extinctions. The last published volume with similar (but not identical) themes – Extinctions in Near Time – appeared in 1999; since then a great deal of innovative, exciting new research has been done but has not yet been compiled and summarized. Different chapters in this volume provide in-depth resumés of the chronology of the extinctions in North and South America, the possible insights into animal ecology provided by studies of stable isotopes and anatomical/physiological characteristics such as growth increments in mammoth and mastodont tusks, the clues from taphonomic research about large-mammal biology, the applications of dating methods to the extinctions debate, and archeological controversies concerning human hunting of large mammals.

Free Download Pilauco: A Late Pleistocene Archaeo-paleontological Site: Osorno, Northwestern Patagonia and Chile by Mario Pino
English | EPUB | 2020 | 347 Pages | ISBN : 3030239179 | 159.7 MB
This volume combines 10 years of accomplished research at the Pilauco site. The studies are focused on a variety of scientific areas including geological, sedimentological, geomorphological and paleobotanical topics, as well as paleontology of vertebrata and invertebrata, micropaleontology, archaeology, biochemistry, taxonomy, taphonomy, astrophysics and the development of some particular touristic aspects. In 18 chapters a variety of authors describe the excavation and investigation of this unique location.