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This large volume presents virtually all aspects of the Epipalaeolithic Natufian culture in a series of chapters that cover recent results of field work, analyses of materials and sites, and synthetic or interpretive overviews of various aspects of this important prehistoric culture.

Social change --- Social archaeology --- Natufian culture --- Pleistocene-Holocene boundary --- Hunting and gathering societies --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- History --- Middle East --- Antiquities --- Eastern Mediterranean. --- Epipalaeolithic. --- Prehistoric Culture. --- Terminal Pleistocene. --- Western Asia.

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The volume contains summaries of facts, theories, and unsolved problems pertaining to the unexplained extinction of dozens of genera of mostly large terrestrial mammals, which occurred ca. 13,000 calendar years ago in North America and about 1,000 years later in South America. Another equally mysterious wave of extinctions affected large Caribbean islands around 5,000 years ago. The coupling of these extinctions with the earliest appearance of human beings has led to the suggestion that foraging humans are to blame, although major climatic shifts were also taking place in the Americas during some of the extinctions. The last published volume with similar (but not identical) themes -- Extinctions in Near Time-- appeared in 1999; since then a great deal of innovative, exciting new research has been done but has not yet been compiled and summarized. Different chapters in this volume provide in-depth resumés of the chronology of the extinctions in North and South America, the possible insights into animal ecology provided by studies of stable isotopes and anatomical/physiological characteristics such as growth increments in mammoth and mastodont tusks, the clues from taphonomic research about large-mammal biology, the applications of dating methods to the extinctions debate, and archeological controversies concerning human hunting of large mammals.

Extinction (Biology). --- Paleontology --- Paleoecology --- Extinction (Biology) --- Pleistocene-Holocene boundary --- Mammals, Fossil --- Glacial epoch --- Mammals --- Geographic Locations --- Anthropology, Physical --- Vertebrates --- Catarrhini --- Earth Sciences --- Biological Processes --- Biological Phenomena --- Natural Science Disciplines --- Geographicals --- Chordata --- Haplorhini --- Anthropology --- Disciplines and Occupations --- Primates --- Animals --- Phenomena and Processes --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Eukaryota --- Organisms --- Americas --- Extinction, Biological --- Hominidae --- Geology --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Effect of human beings on --- Fossilogy --- Fossilology --- Palaeontology --- Paleontology, Zoological --- Paleozoology --- Ice Age --- Pleistocene Epoch --- Eutheria --- Mammalia --- Mammalians --- Prototheria --- Theria --- Palaeoecology --- Extirpation (Biology) --- Extinction --- Extirpation --- Earth sciences. --- Paleontology. --- Geobiology. --- Climate change. --- Archaeology. --- Earth Sciences. --- Climate Change. --- Biogeosciences. --- Historical geology --- Zoology --- Fossils --- Prehistoric animals in motion pictures --- Ecology --- Paleobiology --- Geology, Stratigraphic --- Amniotes, Fossil --- Vertebrates, Fossil --- Biology --- Extinct animals --- Paleontology . --- Climatic changes. --- Changes, Climatic --- Changes in climate --- Climate change --- Climate change science --- Climate changes --- Climate variations --- Climatic change --- Climatic changes --- Climatic fluctuations --- Climatic variations --- Global climate changes --- Global climatic changes --- Climatology --- Climate change mitigation --- Teleconnections (Climatology) --- Archeology --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- History --- Antiquities --- Environmental aspects --- Earth sciences --- Biosphere --- Amerika --- Global environmental change