The Quest for Thylacoleo

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The Thylacine Redemption © :

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Megafauna & Carbon-14:

Australia's Mammal Extinctions: a 50,000 year history. Chris Johnson. Cambridge UP 2006.
ON LINE opinion - Australia's e-journal of social and political debate http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/print.asp?article=5709 Death of the 'Big Things' of Australia By Chris Johnson. Posted Tuesday, 10 April 2007
Radiocarbon Dating, Sheridan Bowman. University of California Press 1990. "Interpreting the Past" series.
Atmospheric data from Reimer et al. Radiocarbon 46:1029-1058, 2004
Journal of Coastal Research SI 50 955 - 968 ICS2007 (Proceedings) Australia ISSN 0749.0208: Rhodes Fairbridge and the idea that the solar system regulates the Earth's climate. Richard Mackey
Archaeol. Oceania 40 (2005) 33-49. Absence of evidence or evidence of absence? Understanding the chronology of Indigenous occupation of western New South Wales, Australia. SIMON HOLDAWAY, PATRICIA FANNING AND JUSTIN SHINER

Blogs & Forums

Thylacoleo Forum - thylacoleo.proboards18.com
ON LINE opinion - Australia's e-journal of social and political debate http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/print.asp?article=5709
Death of the “Big Things” of Australia By Chris Johnson.
Posted Tuesday, 10 April 2007