The Ancient Ones: Mammoth Eaters in the Playground of Giants
This episode of the American Southwest Podcast is the 1st in a series about the original Native American inhabitants of the region and specifically about the climate, landscape, and mammals of Pleistocene North America including the oversized toothy, clawed, and woolly beasts and the first explorers to inhabit the cold and harsh land: the Preclovis and Clovis. It encompasses the Ice Age causes, mammoths, mastodons, sabertooths, giant ground sloths, the bone breaking marrow sucking culture, Clovis Points, how long humans have been here, the Near Time Extinction, and so much more.
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Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America by Craig Childs
The Rise & Reign of the Mammals by Steve Brusatte
Ice Age Mammals of North America: A Guide to the Big, the Hairy, and the Bizarre; Second Edition by Ian M Lange
Rancho La Brea: A Record of Pleistocene Life in California by Chester Stock
First Peoples in a New World: Colonizing Ice Age America by David J. Meltzer
The Trees that Miss the Mammoths By Whit Bronaugh
The Snowmastodon Project: Mammoths and mastodons lived the high life in Colorado by Mary Caperton Morton
University of Michigan: Underwater storage techniques used by early North American hunters preserve meat for at least six months; May 3, 1995
Ancient human-sloth hunt hinted at in 15,000-year-old footprints by Sid Perkins for Science Magazine
Denver Museum of Nature & Science
Los Angeles Museum of Natural History
La Brea Tar Pits & Museum
Western Science Center of Hemet, California