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The Quaternary Extinctions in the Americas from a Siberian Perspective: Review of Paul S Martin. Twilight of the Mammoths: Ice Age Extinctions and the Rewilding of America. 2005. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. ISBN: 0-520-23141-4; 250 pages with 29 figures and plates and 7 tables. List price $30 US (hardback).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Yaroslav V Kuzmin  and
Aleksei N Tikhonov
Yaroslav V Kuzmin
Affiliation:
Pacific Institute of Geography, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Radio St. 7, Vladivostok 690041, Russia (Email: ykuzmin@tig.dvo.ru)
Aleksei N Tikhonov
Affiliation:
Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Universiteskaya Emb. 1, St. Petersburg 199034, Russia (Email: atikh@mail.ru)
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Radiocarbon , Volume 49 , Issue 1 , 2007 , pp. 181 - 184
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Copyright © 2007 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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