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Author(s): Donald Grayson
ISBN(s): 9780520267473, 0520267478
Edition: First Edition, Revised and Expanded Edition
File Details: PDF, 25.61 MB
Year: 2011
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0520267478

ISBN 13: 978-0520267473 

Author: Donald Grayson 

Covering a large swath of the American West, the Great Basin, centered in Nevada and including parts of California, Utah, and Oregon, is named for the unusual fact that none of its rivers or streams flow into the sea. This fascinating illustrated journey through deep time is the definitive environmental and human history of this beautiful and little traveled region, home to Death Valley, the Great Salt Lake, Lake Tahoe, and the Bonneville Salt Flats. Donald K. Grayson synthesizes what we now know about the past 25,000 years in the Great Basin―its climate, lakes, glaciers, plants, animals, and peoples―based on information gleaned from the region’s exquisite natural archives in such repositories as lake cores, packrat middens, tree rings, and archaeological sites. A perfect guide for students, scholars, travelers, and general readers alike, the book weaves together history, archaeology, botany, geology, biogeography, and other disciplines into one compelling panorama across a truly unique American landscape.

Table of contents:

Part One: The Great Basins
Chapter 1: Discovering a Great Basin
Chapter 2: Modern Definitions of the Great Basin
Part Two: Some Ice Age Background
Chapter 3: Glaciers, Sea Levels, and the Peopling of the Americas
Chapter 4: The End of the North American Pleistocene: Extinct Mammals and Early Peoples
Part Three: The Late Ice Age Great Basin
Chapter 5: The Late Pleistocene Physical Environment: Lakes and Glaciers
Chapter 6: Late Pleistocene Vegetation of the Great Basin
Chapter 7: Late Pleistocene Vertebrates of the Great Basin
Part Four: The Last 10,000 Years
Chapter 8: The Great Basin during the Holocene
Part Five: Great Basin Archaeology
Chapter 9: The Prehistoric Archaeology of the Great Basin
Part Six: Conclusions
Chapter 10: The Great Basin Today and Tomorrow

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