The last lost world : ice ages, human origins, and the invention of the Pleistocene
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Upper Skagit Library - Nonfiction
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x, 306 pages : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-288) and index.
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An investigation of the Pleistocene's dual character, as a geologic time, and as a cultural idea. The Pleistocene is the epoch of geologic time closest to our own, a time of ice ages, global migrations, and mass extinctions--of woolly rhinos, mammoths, giant ground sloths, and not least, early species of Homo. It's the world that created ours. But outside that environmental story there exists a parallel narrative that describes how our ideas about the Pleistocene have emerged. This story explains the place of the Pleistocene in shaping intellectual culture, and the role of a rapidly evolving culture in creating the idea of the Pleistocene and in establishing its dimensions. This second story addresses how the epoch, its Earth-shaping events, and its creatures, both those that survived and those that disappeared, helped kindle new sciences and a new origins story as the sciences split from the humanities as a way of looking at the past.--From publisher description.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Pyne, L. V., & Pyne, S. J. (2012). The last lost world: ice ages, human origins, and the invention of the Pleistocene . Viking.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Pyne, Lydia V and Stephen J. Pyne. 2012. The Last Lost World: Ice Ages, Human Origins, and the Invention of the Pleistocene. New York: Viking.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Pyne, Lydia V and Stephen J. Pyne. The Last Lost World: Ice Ages, Human Origins, and the Invention of the Pleistocene New York: Viking, 2012.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Pyne, Lydia V., and Stephen J. Pyne. The Last Lost World: Ice Ages, Human Origins, and the Invention of the Pleistocene Viking, 2012.
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