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The California Ice-Age Refugium and the Rancholabrean Extinction Problem1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Donald Lee Johnson
Donald Lee Johnson*
Affiliation:
Department of Geography, University of Illinois
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Abstract

The question of what caused the late Quaternary extinction of the Rancholabrean fauna in the California glacial refugium is examined. In the absence of significant climatic and other natural environmental change, man was probably the principal agent of extinction in California. This extinction event marked the beginning of a long history of environmental impact in the area by humans.

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Quaternary Research , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , September 1977 , pp. 149 - 153
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University of Washington

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This paper is an appreciably modified part of a version presented at the Proceedings of the Ninth International Congress of Anthropologists and Ethnologists, held during August–September 1973, in Chicago, Illinois.

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