HISTORICAL BACKGROUND AND THE BEASTS THEMSELVES: Nineteenth-Century explanations of pleistocene extinctions: a review and analysis / Donald K. Grayson -- Who's who in the pleistocene: a mammalian bestiary / Elaine Anderson -- New world mammoth distribution / Larry D. Agenbroad -- A CLOSE LOOK AT SIGNIFICANT SITES: Hot springs, South Dakota: entrapment and taphonomy of Columbian Mammoth / Larry D. Agenbroad -- The record of pleistocene megafaunal extinctions at Taima-taima, Northern Venezuela / Ruth Gruhn and Alan L. Bryan -- Late pleistocene fossils of Natural Trap Cave, Wyoming, and the climatic model of extinction / B. Miles Gilbert and Larry D. Martin -- Shasta ground sloth extinction: fossil packrat midden evidence from the Western Grand Canyon / Arthur M. Phillips -- The significance of radiocarbon dates for Rancho La Brea / Leslie F. Marcus and Rainer Berger -- THE THEORETICAL MARKETPLACE: GEOLOGIC-CLIMATIC MODELS: Ten million years of mammal extinctions in North America / S. David Webb -- Pleistocene extinctions in the context of origination-extinction equilibria in cenozoic mammals / Philip G. Gingerich -- Coevolutionary disequilibrium and pleistocene extinctions / Russell W. Graham and Ernest L. Lundelius -- Pleistocene extinction and environmental change: case study of the appalachians / John E. Guilday -- Mosaics, allelochemics, and nutrients: an ecological theory of late pleistocene megafaunal extinctions / R. Dale Guthrie -- Seasonality, gestation time, and large mammal extinctions / Richard A. Kiltie -- Environmental insularity and the extinction of the American mastodont / James E. Kingand and Jeffrey J. Saunders -- THE THEORETICAL MARKETPLACE: CULTURAL MODELS: Stratigraphy and late pleistocene extinction in the United States / C. Vance Haynes -- Prehistoric overkill: the global model / Paul S. Martin -- The reordered North American selection regime and late quaternary megafaunal extinctions / Jerry N. McDonald -- North American late quaternary extinctions and the radiocarbon record / Jim I. Mead and David J. Meltzer -- Simulating overkill: experiments with the mosimann and martin model / Stephen L. Whittington and Bennett Dyke -- Extinction of birds in the late pleistocene of North America / David W. Steadman and Paul S. Martin --
ASIA AND AFRICA: MODEST LOSSES: Quaternary mammalian extinctions in northern Eurasia / N. K. Vereshchagin and G. F. Baryshnikov -- Mammoths in China / Liu Tung-sheng and LiXing-guo -- Faunal turnover and extinction rate in the levant / Eitan Tchernov -- Mammalian extinctions and stone age people in Africa / Richard G. Klein -- Extinctions in madagascar: the loss of the subfossil fauna / Robert E. Dewar -- AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, AND THE ISLAND PACIFIC: SEVERE LOSSES: Extinctions downunder: a bestiary of extinct australian late pleistocene monotremes and marsupials / Peter Murray -- Comings and goings of late quaternary mammals Near Perth in Extreme Southwestern Australia / Duncan Merrilees -- Red Kangaroos: last of the Australian Megafauna / David R. Horton -- Australian environmental change: timing, directions, magnitudes, and rates / Geoffrey Hope -- Late cenozoic plant extinctions in Australia / A. Peter Kershaw -- Moas, men, and middens / Michael M. Trotter and Beverley McCulloch -- The extinction of Moa in Southern New Zealand / Atholl Anderson -- Faunal extinction and prehistoric Man in New Zealand and the Pacific Islands / Richard Cassels -- The role of polynesians in the extinction of the a vifauna of the Hawaiian Islands / Storrs L. Olson and Helen F. James -- AN OVERVIEW: Who killed Cock Robin? an investigation of the extinction controversy / Larry G. Marshall -- Explaining pleistocene extinctions: thoughts on the structure of a debate / Donald K. Grayson -- Historic extinction: a Rosetta Stone for understanding prehistoric extinctions / Jared M. Diamond.
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