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3 The Late Pleistocene Epoch (Ice Age 27,000-9,500 Yr BP)
3.1 Full Glacial Landscape (18,000 Yr BP)
3.3 Changing Glacial Climate (16,500-9,500 Yr BP)
3.4 Late Glacial Vegetation (12,500-9,500 Yr BP)
3.5 Late Glacial Landscapes--Mesic Or Xeric?
4 The Holocene Epoch (10,000 Yr BP To Present)
4.1 Vegetation Changes In The Southeast (The Early Holocene 9,500-7,500 Yr BP)
4.2 Wildlife Extinctions, Dwarfing, And Redistribution During The Early Holocene
4.3 Hypsithermal (7,500-5,000 Yr BP)
4.4 The Cooling Trend (5,000-120 Yr BP)
4.5 Woodland Culture (2,800-1,300 Yr BP)
4.6 Mississippian Culture (1,300-400 Yr BP)
4.8 Biological Evidence For Native Burning
4.9 The Native Ecosystem As Witnessed By The Early Europeans
Figure 1--Paleovegetation Map For 18,000 yr BP
Figure 2--Map of potential vegetation types of the eastern US
Figure 3--The last glacial maximum in North America
Figure 5--Dramatically lower mean annual precipitation
Figure 6--Present mean annual precipitation for the US and annual precipitation at 18,000 yr BP
Figure 7--Pollen profile from White Pond, SC
Figure 8--Late glacial record of the Laurentide Ice Sheet
Figure 9--The glacial sheets of North America at 12,000 yr BP
Figure 10--Forest types for 12,000 yr BP along the eastern seaboard
Figure 11--Demise of glaciers 9,500-7,000 yr BP
Figure 12--Forest types for 9,500 yr BP
Figure 13--Rising temperatures after 7,500 yr BP
Figure 14--Meso-America: red lines mark the boundaries of the Meso-American cultures
Figure 15--Mississippian cultural areas and some important Chiefdoms