Between fifty and ten thousand years ago, most large mammals became extinct everywhere
except Africa. Slow-breeding animals also were hard hit, regardless of size. This unusual …

This paper provides an overview of the contentious issue of global megafaunal extinctions in
the Late Quaternary. The main proposed causes are 'overkill', environmental change or a …

This is the first book to provide a systematic overview of social zooarchaeology, which takes
a holistic view of human-animal relations in the past. Until recently, archaeological analysis …

The province of Jujuy lies in the northwestern corner of Argentina, abutting Chile and Bolivia
in the west and northeast, and ranging from 500 to 6,000 m in elevation. As a result of its …

Despite decades of research, the roles of climate and humans in driving the dramatic
extinctions of large-bodied mammals during the Late Quaternary period remain contentious …

Of the forty mammal species known to have vanished in the world in the last 200 years,
almost half have been Australian. Our continent has the worst record of mammal extinctions …

Recent progress in the field of wildlife disease ecology demonstrates that infectious disease
plays a crucial role in the lives of wild animals. Parasites and pathogens should be …

The last decade's lemur research includes successes in discovering new living and extinct
species and learning about the distribution, biogeography, physiology, behavior, and …

A database has been assembled with 278 age determinations for Madagascar. Materials
14C dated include pretreated sediments and plant macrofossils from cores and excavations …

Southern South America (SSA) has today a high diversity of climates, environments, biomes,
and biotas, as a result of the complex interaction through time of plants and animals with the …