In the News . . .

True Causes for Extinction of Cave Bear Revealed: More Human Expansion Than Climate Change -- Science Daily (25 August 2010)

Drastic Musk Ox Population Decline 12,000 Years Ago Due to Climate, Not Humans, Study Finds -- Science Daily (09 March 2010)

Megafauna Extinctions Not Entirely Humans' Fault -- Wired (29 September 2009)

Last extinction 
NOVA
(56 min., 2009, DVD 1842)
"Nova investigates a provocative new theory that suggests the extinction of more than 34 types of large prehistoric mega-creatures, such as the saber-toothed cat and woolly mammoth, was caused not by climate change or the arrival of the first human hunters, but by the massive breakup of a comet over the Great Lakes region at the end of the last Ice Age, some 12,900 years ago." -- WGBH/Nova website.

• Egalitarian Revolution In The Pleistocene? -- ScienceDaily (10/3/08)
  
  
• Ice Ages -- Illinois State Museum
  
  
• Ice Age Bison Decline Not Due to Hunting, Study Says -- National Geographic News (30November 2004)
  
  
• Links To Pleistocene-Related Sites On The Net
  
  
  • Fossils From Pleistocene Lake Manix, California
    
    
• Geological Time Scale -- Washington State University
  
  
• The Pleistocene: 1.8 million to 11,000 years ago -- University of California Berkeley
  
  
• The Late Pleistocene Extinctions -- Illinois State Museum
  
  
• Pleistocene Extinctions: The Death of an Ecosystem -- Elin Whitney-Smith (including extinction model)
  
  
• Pages in the Midwest U.S. 16,000 Years Ago Exhibit -- Illinois State Museum
  
  
• Pleistocene Animals of the Midwestern U.S. -- Illinois State Museum
  
  
• Pleistocene Mammals in the Russian Paleontological Institute
  
  
• Art and Ice Age Life -- Rich Leiszler
  
  
• Minnesota Pleistocene -- James K. Huber
  
  
• The Pleistocene Ice Age -- Hartwick College
  
  
• The Institute for Ice Age Studies
  
  
• The Ecosystem:The Mammoth Saga -- Natur Historiska Riksmuseet
  
  
• Ice age Mammals and their Extinction -- Museum Victoria
  
  
• The Ice Age -- George H. Michaels and Brian M. Fagan
  
  
• Videos
  
  
  • Last extinction 
    NOVA program HomeSite
    (56 min., 2009, DVD 1842)
    "Nova investigates a provocative new theory that suggests the extinction of more than 34 types of large prehistoric mega-creatures, such as the saber-toothed cat and woolly mammoth, was caused not by climate change or the arrival of the first human hunters, but by the massive breakup of a comet over the Great Lakes region at the end of the last Ice Age, some 12,900 years ago." -- WGBH/Nova website.
    
    
    • End of the Big Beasts
    • The Extinction Debate
    • Extraordinary Artifacts
    • Modeling a Comet Airburst
    • Stone Age Toolkit
    • Before Clovis