Donald k grayson synthesizes what we now know about the past 25000 years in the great basin its climate lakes glaciers plants animals and peoples based on information gleaned from the regions exquisite natural archives in such repositories as lake cores packrat middens tree rings and archaeological sites. This book is indispensable for anyone with a serious interest in the great basin or indeed in the environmental and human prehistory of north america a work of deeply impressive scholarship the great basin a natural prehistory synthesizes a staggering wealth of information about the geology paleontology natural history and anthropology of this great region of the interior west. Hello sign in account lists account returns orders try. Donald k grayson synthesizes what we now know about the past 25000 years in the great basin its climate lakes glaciers plants animals and peoples based on information gleaned from the regions exquisite natural archives in such repositories as lake cores packrat middens tree rings and archaeological sites