@article{441480,
      recid = {441480},
      author = {Grayson, Donald K. and Grayson, Donald K.},
      title = {The great basin a natural prehistory / [electronic  resource] :},
      publisher = {University of California Press,},
      address = {Berkeley :},
      pages = {1 online resource (xiii, 418 p.)},
      year = {2011},
      note = {Rev. ed. of: The desert's past. c1993.},
      abstract = {"The Great Basin, centering on Nevada and including  substantial parts of California, Oregon, and Utah, gets its  name from the fact that none of its rivers or streams flow  to the sea. This book synthesizes the past 25,000 years of  the natural history of this vast region. It explores the  extinct animals that lived in the Great Basin during the  Ice Age and recounts the rise and fall of the massive Ice  Age lakes that existed here. It explains why trees once  grew 13' beneath what is now the surface of Lake Tahoe,  explores the nearly two dozen Great Basin mountain ranges  that once held substantial glaciers, and tells the  remarkable story of how pinyon pine came to cover some  17,000,000 acres of the Great Basin in the relatively  recent past.These discussions culminate with the impressive  history of the prehistoric people of the Great Basin, a  history that shows how human societies dealt with nearly  13,000 years of climate change on this often-challenging  landscape"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/441480},
}