Humans at the end of the ice age: The archaeology of the Pleistocene-Holocene transitiondoi:10.1002/(sici)1520-6548(199705)12:3<278::aid-gea6>3.0.co;2-#Donald K. Grayson
Sincethelasticeage,humanshaveclearednearlyhalfoftheearth'sforestsandgrasslandsforagriculture.Withtheworldpopulationexpanding,there'sever-increasingpressureonfarmlandtoproducenotonlymorefoodbutalsocleanenergy.InplacessuchasYakimaCounty,Washington,it'screatedcompetitionforspaceasland-hungrysolarpanels(板)consumeavailablefi...
Since the last ice age, humans have cleared nearly half of the earth’s forests and grasslands for agriculture. With the world population expanding, there’s ever-increasing pressure on farmland to produce not only more food but also clean energy. In places such as Yakima County, Washington, ...
The most recent ice age peaked between 24,000 and 21,000 years ago, when vast ice sheets covered North America and northern Europe, and mountain ranges like Africa's Mt. Kilimanjaro and South America's Andes were encased in glaciers. At that point, our Homo sapiens ancestors had migrated ...
Humans at the End of the Ice Age: The Archaeology of the Pleistocene Holocene Transition. Straus Lawrence Guy , Eriksen Berit Valentin , Erlandson Jon M. ,... We start from the premise that ceramic evolution created the paste-compositional and formal diversity of archaeological ceramic assemblages...
Humans and climateChildren of the Ice Age.by Steven M. Stanley Harmony: 1996. Pp. 278. $24.95.Paleoclimate and Evolution, with Emphasis on Human Origins. by Elisabeth S. Vrba, George H. Denton, Timothy C. Partridge and Lloyd H. Burckle Yale University Press: 1995. Pp. 547. $85, 60....
Since the last ice age, humans have cleared nearly half of the earth's forests and grasslands for agriculture.With the world population expanding, there's ever-increasing pressure on farmland to produce not only more food but also clean energy. In places such as Yakima County, Washington, it...
It's not clear why ancient humans and other animals in this group lived in this seemingly harsh climate rather than explore more hospitable places. But they seemed able to tolerate the ice age conditions while other animals withdrew to refugia. Perhaps most important of all is...
During the Ice Age, early humans lived alongsidelarge animalslike mammoths, saber-toothed cats and giant ground sloths. Fromcut markson bones, researchers have deduced that early humans sometimes butchered and, presumably, ate the meat of these big creatures. ...
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