Название: Two Acres of Time: Unearthing the Ice Age at the Byron Dig
Автор: Richard S. Laub
Издательство: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231206720
Год: 2022
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 389
Размер: 24,5 МБ
Язык: Английский
In 1959, what appeared to be the bones of a mastodon were found in a western New York pasture. When researchers began to investigate further in the early 1980s, the site proved to hold far more. Known as the Hiscock Site, it contained an astonishingly rich trove of fossils and artifacts dating from the late Ice Age through the onset of European settlement. For nearly three decades, work at the site—the “Byron Dig”—unearthed new evidence of changing fauna, flora, cultures, and environments over the past 13,000 years.