Pleistocene Extinctions: Carbon-14 Dates and Early Man in the New World (Pamphlet)

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Author: Haynes, C. Vance, Jr. (1928-)

Publisher: Yale University Press

Pub Date: 1967

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair.  Stapled binding tight.  No tears, folds.  Previous owner’s name on upper front cover corner.  Upper front cover corner has an approx. 1″ bend.  Lower rear cover corner has an approx. 1/4″ bend.  Edge and corner wear.

Notes: Pamphlet.  Offprint.  This is a single chapter from  Pleistocene Extinctions: The Search for a Cause (Martin and Wright, Jr. editors, Yale University Press, 1967). “Critical evaluation of carbon-14 dates of Early Man in thousand-year intervals reveals an increasing diversity of projectile point types, starting with Clovis points 11,500 years ago and reaching a wide variety of types by 8,000 B.P…Apparently some projectile point types can be used as ‘index fossils,’ and on this basis certain cave dates should be questioned.  Too many dates have been interpreted as applying to man on very tenuous, if not erroneous, grounds.  Upon critical review of literature, I can find no carbon-14 date older than 12,000 B.P. that can be positively related to Early Man in the New World.”  (From the Abstract)