Population reconstructions for humans and megafauna suggest mixed causes for North American Pleistocene extinctions

Spatio-temporal approaches to archaeological radiocarbon dates

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Spatially explicit analysis sheds new light on the Pleistocene megafaunal extinction in North America

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Fossil and genomic evidence constrains the timing of bison arrival in North America

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Culture Process and the Interpretation of Radiocarbon Data

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Megafauna and ecosystem function from the Pleistocene to the Anthropocene

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Implications of a Bayesian radiocarbon calibration of colonization ages for mammalian megafauna in glaciated New York State after the Last Glacial Maximum

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Population growth as a driver of initial domestication in Eastern North America

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Summed Probability Distribution of 14C Dates Suggests Regional Divergences in the Population Dynamics of the Jomon Period in Eastern Japan

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Robustness despite uncertainty: regional climate data reveal the dominant role of humans in explaining global extinctions of Late Quaternary megafauna

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Revisiting Paleoindian exploitation of extinct North American mammals

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Multiple causes of the Younger Dryas cold period

(2015) Hans Renssen et al.   Nature Geoscience

Test of Martin’s overkill hypothesis using radiocarbon dates on extinct megafauna

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Variable impact of late-Quaternary megafaunal extinction in causing ecological state shifts in North and South America

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Abrupt warming events drove Late Pleistocene Holarctic megafaunal turnover

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Reconstructing regional population fluctuations in the European Neolithic using radiocarbon dates: a new case-study using an improved method

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Summed radiocarbon calibrations as a population proxy: a critical evaluation using a realistic simulation approach

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American mastodon extirpation in the Arctic and Subarctic predates human colonization and terminal Pleistocene climate change

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Holarctic genetic structure and range dynamics in the woolly mammoth

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Northeastern North American Pleistocene megafauna chronologically overlapped minimally with Paleoindians

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Regional population collapse followed initial agriculture booms in mid-Holocene Europe

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Extinction chronology of the woolly rhinoceros Coelodonta antiquitatis in the context of late Quaternary megafaunal extinctions in northern Eurasia

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Pattern of extinction of the woolly mammoth in Beringia

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The use of summed radiocarbon probability distributions in archaeology: a review of methods

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Species-specific responses of Late Quaternary megafauna to climate and humans

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Late Pleistocene climate change, nutrient cycling, and the megafaunal extinctions in North America

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Ancient DNA analyses exclude humans as the driving force behind late Pleistocene musk ox (Ovibos moschatus) population dynamics

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Correcting temporal frequency distributions for taphonomic bias

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Prehistoric demography of North America inferred from radiocarbon data

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The Terminal Pleistocene Extinctions in North America, Hypermorphic Evolution, and the Dynamic Equilibrium Model

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Synchronous extinction of North America's Pleistocene mammals

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Extinctions, scenarios, and assumptions: Changes in latest Pleistocene large herbivore abundance and distribution in western North America

(2009) Eric Scott   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Pleistocene Megafaunal Collapse, Novel Plant Communities, and Enhanced Fire Regimes in North America

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Paleoindian demography and the extraterrestrial impact hypothesis

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Younger Dryas "black mats" and the Rancholabrean termination in North America

(2008) C. V. Haynes   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Did climatic seasonality control late Quaternary artiodactyl densities in western North America?

(2008) Jack M. Broughton et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Why there was not a Younger Dryas-like event during the Penultimate Deglaciation

(2008) Anders E. Carlson   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Late Quaternary Bison diminution on the Great Plains of North America: evaluating the role of human hunting versus climate change

(2008) Matthew E. Hill et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS