caa a22 4500 388056118 CHVBK 20180307125107.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199803 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0003598X00086269 doi S0003598X00086269 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0003598X00086269 Webb R. Esmée C/o Yamaji Language Centre, PO Box 433, Geraldton WA 6531, Australia Megamarsupial extinction: the carrying capacity argument [Elektronische Daten] [R. Esmée Webb] An ancient and contentious debate in prehistory (Owen 1846; Lyell 1863) asks if the megafauna of newly colonized worlds was exterminated by human hunting, or whether other factors, such as changing climate, were decisive. Debate on this issue remains lively in Australia, because its harsh environments surely posed problems for very large mammals. A starting-point for this fresh look at megafaunal extinction was Flannery's (1994) adoption of the ‘blitzkrieg' hypothesis, in which humanly caused kill-off was so rapid it left no decisive archaeological traces. Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1998 Antiquity Cambridge University Press 72/275(1998-03), 46-55 0003-598X 72:275<46 1998 72 AQY https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00086269 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00086269 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Webb R. Esmée C/o Yamaji Language Centre, PO Box 433, Geraldton WA 6531, Australia NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Antiquity Cambridge University Press 72/275(1998-03), 46-55 0003-598X 72:275<46 1998 72 AQY CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge