Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction - Julio L. Betancourt, Thomas R. Van Devender, and Paul S. Martin
Part I: Methods
Chapter 2. Ecology of Living Packrats - Terry A. Vaughan
Chapter 3. Woodrat Ecology And Behavior And The Interpretation Of Paleomiddens - Robert B. Finley, Jr.
Chapter 4. Do Woodrat Middens Accurately Represent The Animals' Environments and Diets? The Woodhouse Mesa Study - Kenneth P. Dial and Nicholas J. Czaplewski
Chapter 5. Packrat Middens: Their Composition And Methods Of Analysis - W. Geoffrey Spaulding, Tulio L. Betancourt, Lisa K. Croft, and Kenneth L. Cole
Chapter 6. The Spatial And Temporal Distribution Of Radiocarbon Ages From Packrat Middens - Robert H. Webb and Julio L. Betancourt
Part II: Regional Summaries
Chapter 7. Late Quaternary Vegetation And Climate Of The Chihuahuan Desert, United States And Mexico - Thomas R. Van Devender
Chapter 8. Late Quaternary Vegetation And Climate Of The Sonoran Desert, United States And Mexico - Thomas R. Van Devender
Chapter 9. Vegetational And Climatic Development Of The Mojave Desert: The Last Glacial Maximum To The Present - W. Geoffrey Spaulding
Chapter 10. Late Quaternary Vegetation And Climate In The Great Basin - Robert S. Thompson
Chapter 11. Late Quaternary Vegetation Gradients Through The Grand Canyon - Kenneth L. Cole
Chapter 12. Late Quaternary Biogeography Of The Colorado Plateau - Julio L. Betancourt
Part III: Special Studies
Chapter 13. Comparison Of Late Holocene Environments From Woodrat Middens
And Pollen: Diamond Craters, Oregon -
Peter J. Mehringer, Jr., And Peter E. Wigand
Chapter 14. The Ecology And Paleoecology Of Grasses In Selected Sonoran Desert Plant Communities - Thomas R. Van Devender, Laurence J. Toolin, And Tony L. Burgess
Chapter 15. Late Quaternary Mammals From The Chihuahuan Desert: Paleoecology and Latitudinal Gradients - Thomas R. Van Devender and George L. Bradley
Chapter 16. Arthropod History Of The Puerto Blanco Mountains, Organ Pipe National Monument, Southwestern Arizona - W. Eugene Hall, Thomas R. Van Devender, and Carl A. Olson
Chapter 17. Deuterium Variations In Plant Cellulose From Fossil Packrat Middens - Austin Long, Lisa A. Warneke, Julio L. Betancourt, and Robert S. Thompson
Part IV: Middens Abroad
Chapter 18. Hyrax (Procaviidae) and Dassie Rat (Petromuridae) Middens in Paleoenvironmental Studies in Africa - Louis Scott
Chapter 19. Fossil Hyrax Middens From The Middle East: A Record Of Paleovegetation and Human Disturbance - Patricia L. Fall, Cynthia A. Lindquist, and Steven E. Falconer
Chapter 20. Analysis Of Stick-Nest Rat (Leporillus: Muridae) Middens From Central Australia - Desmond J. Nelson, Robert H. Webb, and Austin Long
Chapter 21. Synthesis and Prospectus - Julio L. Betancourt, Thomas R. Van Devender, and Paul S. Martin
Index
List Of Contributors