Late Pleistocene Environments of the Southern High Plains

Description

Editors: Wendorf, Fred (1924-2015) and Hester, James J. (1932-2016)

Publisher: Fort Burgwin Research Center

Pub Date: 1975

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, folds.  Lower rear cover corner has an approx. 3″ bend.  Some edge and corner wear.

Notes: Publication of the Fort Burgwin Research Center, No. 9.  Research conducted in 1961 and 1962, but not published until 1975 (lack of funds).  “…This study…recorded the first successful attempt to recover a Pleistocene pollen record from this area.  The most surprising conclusion suggested by the pollen data was that a boreal forest or woodland of pine and spruce was present on the Southern High Plains as far south as Monahans, Texas, during a maximum of cool moist conditions in the Late Pleistocene.  This period of cool, moist climate and indicated boreal forest was named the Thoka Pluvial and dated by radiocarbon analysis between 21,000 and 14,000 B.C. or approximately contemporary with the Cary maximum of glacial advance in central North America.” (From the Preface)