Author: Frank M. BryanPublisher:
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Category : Texas
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
The Coyote Lake Midden
Author: Frank M. BryanPackrat Middens
Author: Julio L. BetancourtPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816547157
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Over the past thirty years, late Quaternary environments in the arid interior of western North America have been revealed by a unique source of fossils: well-preserved fragments of plants and animals accumulated locally by packrats and quite often encased, amberlike, in large masses of crystallized urine. These packrat middens are ubiquitous in caves and rock crevices throughout the arid West, where they can lie preserved for tens of thousands of years. More than a thousand of these deposits have been dated and analyzed, and middens have supplanted pollen records as a touchstone for studying vegetation dynamics and climatic change in radiocarbon time (the last 40,000 years). Now, similar deposits made by other mammals like hyraxes are being reported from other parts of the world. This book brings together the findings and views of many of the researchers investigating fossil middens in the United States, Mexico, Africa, the Middle East, and Australia. The contributions serve to open a forum for methodological concerns, update the fossil record of various geographic regions, introduce new applications, and display the vast potential for fossil midden analysis in arid regions worldwide. The findings presented here will serve to foster regional research and to promote general studies devoted to global climate change. Included in the text are more than two hundred charts, photographs, and maps.
Central Texas Archeologist
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Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Memoir
Author: Catalogue: Authors
Author: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Bibliography of Fossil Vertebrates 1949-1953
Author: C.L. Camp and H.J. AllisonPublisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 0813710847
Category : Vertebrates, Fossil
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
MX Missile Deployment Area Selection and Land Withdrawal/acquisition
Author: Writings on American History
Author: Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University: Lae to Oll
Author: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description