The Late Pleistocene Extinctions

Late Pleistocene Extinctions is a supplementary student resource in the grade six unit, Paleolithic People: Tools, Tasks, and Fire, from California's Education and the Environment Initiative (EEI). This web-based resource provides information about the extinction of certain plants and animals in the Midwestern United States 16,000 years ago and reviews some of the hypotheses for the causes of that extinction. Students can explore what the landscape of the area was like during the Pleistocene era, what animals inhabited the land and waterways, and what plants grew then. The site also includes a virtual tour of a cave site in Missouri that contains bone fragments of animals from that time period.