Chapter 24: Humans and the Ice Age

Review Questions for Chapter 24

Life and Climate in the Ice Ages

• For Extensive Web Links See Dr. Cowen's Web Links for Chapter 24
• Introduction to the Ice Ages
• Did We Eat the Mammoths?
• Animated Image of the Spread of Clovis Hunters After the Last Ice Age
• The Mammoth Family Tree and their Extinction
• More Little-Known Facts about the Beresovka ("Woody") Mammoth
• Coincidence?: Giant Ground Sloths Survived for 35 Million Years until About 10,000 Years Ago
  (Some More Sloth Links: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
• More Extinctions Last Millennium:Tigers and Saber-toothed Cat
• Stellar's Sea Cow and Spectacled Cormorant and Eskimo Curlew from Endangered Species of Alaska
• The Tragedy of the Dodo
• Pleistocence and Contemporary Artists Depict Extinct Mammals
• AMNH Library Exhibit onExtinct and Endangered Species

The World Today

• Overview of the Holocene (Last 11,000 Years)
• Climate Change During the Last 3,000 Years Modern World
• Outstanding New Book: The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature by David Suzuki, et al.

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