Clovis still in recent books--> : Prehistoric America: A Journey Through the Ice Age and Beyond

From: Roger Bagula (tftn_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 06/26/04 

Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 23:40:37 GMT

>
> Miles Barton is the series producer of the Discovery Channel series
> Prehistoric America, which was originally televised by the BBC. Ian
> Gray and Stephen Dunleavy are producers of the series, and Nigel Bean
> and Adam White are assistant producers.
>
> Book Description
> When human beings first arrived in North America at the end of the
> last Ice Age, they encountered a teeming variety of animals, from
> ground sloths and mastodons to zebras and camels. This spectacularly
> illustrated book takes us on a captivating journey back to that time,
> showing us the entire continent and its incredible wildlife as it
> looked 13,000 years ago.
>
> The book travels the ancient continent region by region, from the icy
> Arctic vastness to the steamy tropical swamps of Florida. We are
> introduced to bizarre beasts, now extinct (including glyptodonts,
> scimitar-toothed cats, and mammoths); animals that have long since
> disappeared from their North American habitats (lions, cheetahs); and
> species still seen today (grizzlies, condors, alligators). A wealth of
> fossil evidence informs the stunning computer-generated panoramas that
> fill the pages of this extraordinary book. The bones of the ancient
> beasts again have flesh and fur, unfamiliar animals again roam the
> landscapes, and the world of prehistoric North America comes
> startlingly to life.
>

So we see that an outdated theory of arrival of man in the new world is
still being
set off as being the "current" information. We all know this is wrong,
it a least off by 10000 years!
Most probably much more.
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  Prehistoric America: A Journey Through the Ice Age and Beyond

Prehistoric America: A Journey Through the Ice Age and Beyond

Prehistoric America: A Journey Through the Ice Age and Beyond
by Authors: Miles Barton , Ian Gray , Adam White , Nigel Bean , Stephen
Dunleavy
Released: 01 January, 2003
ISBN: 0300098197
Hardcover

Sales Rank: 91,462
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Prehistoric America: A Journey Through the Ice Age and Beyond > Customer
Review #1:
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A very excellent text about the Ice Age and its animals

This book joins "Ice Age Mammals of North America" as one of the
exceptionally fine recent texts about the vanished large animals living
on the North American continent during the Ice Age. Many of these
marvelous creatures vanished less than 10,000 years ago, a heartbeat in
geological time. You will be particularly struck by the superb,
in-full-color computer graphics and photography in the book. The two
arts are combined to give astonishing looks at what these animals looked
like in their native habitats. If the book contained little more, it
would be worth it on this basis alone. But there is much more to
recommend the book

After a good introduction, this book examines life during the recent
glaciation, and into today, by region. Six regions are encompassed. The
first is never-glaciated Beringia, consisting of Alaska and the Bering
Sea land bridge. Then, in turn, come the northwestern United States
coast, the Great Plains, the Colorado Plateau and Great Basin, Florida,
and the Eastern forest. The differences, and similairties, between the
Ice Age climates and fauna are carefully explored for each area. Certain
key animals in each region are analyzed by in-chapter profiles.

These descriptions are completely up-to-date, and are accompanied by the
excellent graphics previously discussed. Animals reviewed in this manner
include two varieties of mammoth, the mastodon, the saber-toothed and
scimitar cats, the giant. armadillo-like glyptodont, the giant
short-faced bear, which was bigger than a Kodiak bear, and several
varieties of ground sloth. You will also learn that quite a few animals
survived the extinctions, including the moose, musk ox, grizzly bear,
bison, elk, as well as many animals that lived on in Eurasia, but not
here, such as the horse, the saiga antelope, cheetah, lion, camel,
zebra, and the wisent, or European bison.

In the closing chepter, the authors examine the possible reasons for the
sudden extinctions of so many large, dominant animals within the span of
a few thousand years. These include overkill by man, climatic change,
and several other reason. The discussion is timely, thorough and apt.

This book will provide many days of enjoyable, provocative reading.
Given ongoing changes in weather, loss of wildlife habitat, and the
like, are we continuing, and even accelerating these extinctions? This
book offers excellent food for thought on such matters, but I will leave
the ultimate decision to the reader, upon reflection.

Very, very highly recommended to anyone with a high school or greater
background, including graduate students and academics. Enjoy, and ponder.

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Books like this one give people the wrong impression!
Respectfully, Roger L. Bagula

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