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Tables of Contents for The Desert's Past
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Figures
ix
4
Tables
xiii
2
Preface
xv
4
Acknowledgments
xix
PART ONE: The Great Basins
3
42
CHAPTER ONE: Discovering a Great Basin
3
8
CHAPTER TWO: Modern Definitions of the Great Basin
11
34
The Hydrographic Great Basin
11
3
The Physiographic Great Basin
14
7
The Floristic Great Basin
21
13
The Ethnographic Great Basin
34
6
Choosing a Great Basin
40
5
PART TWO: Some Ice Age Background
45
32
CHAPTER THREE: Glaciers, Sea Levels, and the Peopling of the New World
45
18
The Bering Land Bridge and the Human Arrival
45
8
Identifying the Earliest New World Archaeology
53
3
Some Notable Misses
56
1
A Great Basin Miss
57
2
Two Possible Hits
59
4
CHAPTER FOUR: The End of the North American Pleistocene: Extinct Mammals and Early Peoples
63
14
The Mammals
63
5
The Timing of the Extinctions
68
1
The People
68
4
What Caused the Extinctions?
72
5
PART THREE: The Late Ice Age Great Basin
77
116
CHAPTER FIVE: The Late Pleistocene Physical Environment: Lakes and Glaciers
77
38
Modern Great Basin Lakes
77
4
Great Basin Climate and Modern Lakes
81
3
Pleistocene Lakes in the Great Basin
84
18
Great Basin Glaciers
102
6
The Relationship between Pleistocene Glaciers and Lakes in the Great Basin
108
7
CHAPTER SIX: The Late Pleistocene Vegetation of the Great Basin
115
40
Learning about Ancient Vegetation
115
4
Three Regional Pictures
119
19
A General Look at Late Pleistocene Great Basin Vegetation
138
17
CHAPTER SEVEN: The Late Pleistocene Vertebrates of the Great Basin
155
38
The Extinct Late Pleistocene Mammals
155
11
The Extinct Late Pleistocene Birds
166
4
Altered Late Pleistocene Distributions of Existing Great Basin Mammals
170
18
Other Vertebrates
188
5
PART FOUR: The Last 10,000 Years
193
40
CHAPTER EIGHT: The Great Basin during the Holocene
193
40
The Early Holocene: 10,000 to 7,500 Years Ago
194
14
The Middle Holocene: 7,500 to 4,500 Years Ago
208
13
The Late Holocene: The Last 4,500 Years
221
12
PART FIVE: Great Basin Archaeology
233
66
CHAPTER NINE: The Prehistoric Archaeology of the Great Basin
233
44
Pre-Clovis Sites in the Great Basin?
233
3
Great Basin Fluted Point Sites
236
2
Great Basin Stemmed Point Sites
238
6
Adapting to a Poorer World: The Middle Holocene
244
11
Human Adaptations during the Late Holocene
255
16
The Immediate Effects of European Contact
271
6
CHAPTER TEN: Historic Archaeology and the Donner Party
277
22
The Donner Party Journey
277
8
Donner Party Deaths and Demographics
285
5
The Archaeology of the Donner Party
290
9
PART SIX: Conclusions
299
6
CHAPTER ELEVEN: Cougars, Cheatgrass, and the Natural Landscape
299
6
Deer, Cougars, Cattle, and Native Americans
300
1
Native Plants, Livestock, Cheatgrass, and Fire
301
1
Conclusions
302
3
Appendix: Concordance of Common and Scientific Plant Names
305
4
Literature Cited
309
34
Index
343