كتاب
The great basin: a natural prehistory
| العنوان: | The great basin: a natural prehistory |
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| المؤلفون: | Grayson, Donald K. |
| المساهمون: | Grayson, Donald K. Desert's past. |
| بيانات النشر: | Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011. Rev. and expanded ed. |
| سنة النشر: | 2011 |
| وصف مادي: | xiii, 418 p. : ill., maps ; 29 cm. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection., 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: | "The Great Basin, centering on Nevada and including substantial parts of California, Oregon, and Utah, gets its name from the fact that none of its rivers or streams flow to the sea. This book synthesizes the past 25,000 years of the natural history of this vast region. It explores the extinct animals that lived in the Great Basin during the Ice Age and recounts the rise and fall of the massive Ice Age lakes that existed here. It explains why trees once grew 13' beneath what is now the surface of Lake Tahoe, explores the nearly two dozen Great Basin mountain ranges that once held substantial glaciers, and tells the remarkable story of how pinyon pine came to cover some 17,000,000 acres of the Great Basin in the relatively recent past.These discussions culminate with the impressive history of the prehistoric people of the Great Basin, a history that shows how human societies dealt with nearly 13,000 years of climate change on this often-challenging landscape"--Provided by publisher. |
| ملاحظة حول المحتويات: | pt. 1. The Great Basins -- pt. 2. Some Ice Age background -- pt. 3. The late Ice Age Great Basin -- pt. 4. The last 10,000 years -- pt. 5. Great Basin archaeology -- pt. 6. Conclusions. |
| Original Identifier: | ocn668191550 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-0-520-26747-3 0-520-26747-8 |
| 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: | Rev. ed. of: The desert's past. c1993. Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.012724913.3 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
Full Text Finder | ردمك: | 9780520267473 0520267478 |
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