Frozen Fauna of the Mammoth Steppe: The Story of Blue Babe

by R. Dale Guthrie

Book Overview

Frozen mammals of the Ice Age, preserved for millennia in the tundra, have been a source of fascination and mystery since their first discovery over two centuries ago. These mummies, their ecology, and their preservation are the subject of this compelling book by paleontologist Dale Guthrie. The 1979 find of a frozen, extinct steppe bison in an Alaskan gold mine allowed him to undertake the first scientific excavation of an Ice Age mummy in North...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226311228
• ISBN13: 9780226311227
• Release Date: December 1989
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"