Schubert, B.W., J.I. Mead & R.W. Graham. Eds. 2003. Ice Age cave faunas of North America. – Bloomington, Indiana University Press

Abstract

As a macro vertebrate palaeontologist who is familiar with the Pleistocene mammals of Eurasia, I was attracted by the title “Ice Age cave faunas of North America”. I thought the book would make me familiar with the Ice Age vertebrates of North America with the idea to see if there is a correlation with the Ice Age vertebrates from Eurasia.

The book is a collection of independent scientific papers, written by specialists in the field of cave faunas of North America. The preface to the book mentions that many of these papers were presented previously at a cave palaeontology symposium at the National Speleological Society convention in Sullivan, Missouri, 1997. The book is dedicated to Elaine Anderson (1936-2002), who was a vertebrate palaeontologist and the driving force in the Porcupine Cave project. Read more...