Pleistocene Megafauna and Overkill Hypothesis - Ep 138

<p>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.</p><h2>Transcripts For rough transcripts of this episode go to <a href="https://www.archpodnet.com/ruins/138">https://www.archpodnet.com/ruins/138</a></h2><h2>Literature Recommendations</h2><ul> <li><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-07897-1">Population reconstructions for humans and megafauna suggest mixed causes for North American Pleistocene extinctions by Jack M. Broughton &amp; Elic M. Weitzel (2018) in Nature Communications</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2015032117">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)</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0908153106">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)</a></li> <li>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)</li></ul><h2>Contact</h2><ul> <li>Email: <a href="mailto:alifeinruinspodcast@gmail.com">alifeinruinspodcast@gmail.com</a></li> <li>Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/alifeinruinspodcast">@alifeinruinspodcast</a></li> <li>Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/alifeinruinspodcast">@alifeinruinspodcast</a></li> <li>Twitter: <a href="https://www.twitter.com/alifeinruinspod">@alifeinruinspod</a></li> <li>Website: <a href="https://www.alifeinruins.com/">www.alifeinruins.com</a></li> <li>Ruins on APN: <a href="https://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/ruins">https://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/ruins</a></li> <li>Store: