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Cornwall, Ian
Ice Ages, Their Nature and Effects. The Curwin Press, LTD,
Great Britain, 1970. A good non-technical review of Ice Ages and glaciers,
their causes and their effects on the modern landscape.
Davis, Simon J.M.
The Archaeology of Animals. Yale University Press, 1987. A
good review of zoo-archaeology, the study of animal remains from archeological
sites, showing how animal bones provide data on past environments and on
the economies of peoples who exploited animals. There is an interesting
chapter on the domestication of animals.
De Vore, Sally and Thelma White
The Appetites of Man.. Anchor Books, 1978. A comparison of
the diets of nine non-Western societies from Eskimos to Tuaregs. For the
general reader.
Dobyns, Henry F.
Their Number Become Thinned; Native American Population Dynamics in
Eastern North America.. The University of Tennessee Press, 1983.
Dobyns, the first scholar to become interested in the effects of European
diseases on American Indians, argues that there were 18 million North American
Indians in 1492 (and 90 to 112 million in the entire western hemisphere),
a population that was reduced, mostly by disease, to 500,000 or less by
1900. Most scholars think his figures too high, and that there were probably
between two and five million North American Indians in 1492.
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