The protracted Holocene extinction of California's flightless sea duck (Chendytes lawi) and its implications for the Pleistocene overkill hypothesis
- *Department of Social Sciences, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA 93407-0329;
- ‡Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095;
- §Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1218;
- ¶CAL FIRE, 2249 Jamacha Road, El Cajon, CA 92019-8495; and
- ‖California Department of Parks and Recreation, 2211 Garden Road, Monterey, CA 93940
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Edited by Dolores R. Piperno, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, and Balboa, Panama, and approved December 26, 2007 (received for review November 25, 2007)
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Fig. 1.Map showing location of archaeological and paleontological finds of Chendytes lawi along the California and Oregon coasts, highlighting locations of directly dated archaeological specimens. The figure was prepared by Brian F. Codding (Department of Anthropology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA).
Footnotes
- †To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: tljones{at}calpoly.edu
- © 2008 by The National Academy of Sciences of the USA
