Pleistocene Megafauna and Overkill Hypothesis - Ruins 138

On this episode of A Life in Ruins Podcast, Carlton is off galivanting across Europe and you know what that means; chaos. Connor and David talk about megafauna, the overkill hypothesis and get real weird. Transcripts For rough transcripts of this episode go to https://www.archpodnet.com/ruins/138 Literature Recommendations Population reconstructions for humans and megafauna suggest mixed causes for North American Pleistocene extinctions by Jack M. Broughton & Elic M. Weitzel (2018) in Nature Communications Overkill, glacial history, and the extinction of North America’s Ice Age megafauna by David J. Meltzer (2020) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) Synchronous extinction of North America's Pleistocene mammals by J. Tyler Faith and Todd A. Surovell (2009) in in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) Test of Martin’s overkill hypothesis using radiocarbon dates on extinct megafauna Todd A. Surovell, Spencer R. Pelton, Richard Anderson-Sprecher, and Adam D. Myers (2015) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) Contact Email: [email protected] Instagram: @alifeinruinspodcast Facebook: @alifeinruinspodcast Twitter: @alifeinruinspod Website: www.alifeinruins.com Ruins on APN: https://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/ruins Store: https://www.redbubble.com/people/alifeinruins/shop ArchPodNet APN Website: https://www.archpodnet.com APN on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/archpodnet APN on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/archpodnet APN on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/archpodnet Tee Public Store Affiliates Wildnote TeePublic Timeular Motion Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.