كتاب
The desert's past: a natural prehistory of the Great Basin
| العنوان: | The desert's past: a natural prehistory of the Great Basin |
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| المؤلفون: | Grayson, Donald K. |
| بيانات النشر: | Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, c1993. |
| سنة النشر: | 1993 |
| وصف مادي: | xix, 356 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Geology, Stratigraphic -- Pleistocene., Geology, Stratigraphic -- Holocene., Geology -- Great Basin., Paleontology -- Great Basin., Indians of North America -- Great Basin -- Antiquities., Paleo-Indians -- Great Basin. |
| جغرافية الموضوع: | Great Basin -- Antiquities. |
| الوصف: | Spanning 25,000 years and covering topics that range from Pleistocene glaciers to the ill-fated Donner Party, The Desert's Past presents the first complete synthesis of the environmental and human history of North America's Great Basin. Centering on Nevada, this region covers some 165,000 square miles and includes substantial parts of California, Oregon, and Utah. The Great Basin takes its name from the fact that its rivers flow inward rather than to the sea. Offering an encyclopedic scope with a storyteller's tone, Donald K. Grayson recounts the historical development of the Great Basin. Beginning just before the last maximum advance of glaciers in North America, the author reconstructs the Great Basin's defining environmental features. He catalogs the existence of such mammals as lions, camels, and mammoths that once lived in this region - and discusses the rise and fall of huge lakes that were once found here. He also characterizes some 11,500 years of human history within the Great Basin and shows that this history is inseparably linked to the past environments of this region. Whether revealing the wonders accumulated by ancient packrats, discussing the advent of European influence and disease, or tracing the origin of the Bonneville Salt Flats (where virtually all landspeed records have been set), Grayson's compelling narrative recreates the world of the Great Basin. |
| ملاحظة حول المحتويات: | Discovering a Great Basin -- Modern definitions of the Great Basin -- Glaciers, sea levels, and the peopling of the New World -- The End of the North American Pleistocene: extinct mammals and early peoples -- The Late Pleistocene physical environment: lakes and glaciers -- The Late Pleistocene vegetation of the Great Basin -- The Late Pleistocene vertebrates of the Great Basin -- The Great Basin during the Holocene -- The Prehistoric archaeology of the Great Basin -- Historic archaeology and the Donner Party -- Cougars, cheatgrass, and the natural landscape. |
| Original Identifier: | ocm26261214 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-1-56098-222-7 1-56098-222-5 |
| حقوق: | This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
| ملاحظات: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.003400730.X |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
| ردمك: | 9781560982227 1560982225 |
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