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... Vaudeville Concerns., Important., Trinidad Oil. Fire At The LA Brea Oilfield., Knights Deep Operations Curtailed.. Stock Exchange Tables: ...
1913 - Gale Group | TDA
Blaire Van Valkenburgh, Tom Maddox, Paul J. Funston, Michael G. L. Mills, Gregory F. Grether, Chris Carbone,
... Gregory F. and Carbone Chris 2009Sociality in Rancho La Brea Smilodon: arguments favour 'evidence' over 'coincidence'Biol. Lett. ... 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0261SectionRestricted accessPalaeontologySociality in Rancho La Brea Smilodon: arguments favour 'evidence' over 'coincidence' Blaire Van ... 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0261"Sociality in Rancho La Brea Smilodon: arguments favour 'evidence' over 'coincidence'." Biology Letters, ... Dearing M. D., Ward J.& Allen J.. 2004Rancho La Brea stable isotope biogeochemistry and its implications for the ...
Tópico(s): Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
2009 - Royal Society | Biology Letters
A. R. Andrew, Pamela Harbord, Muriel N., H. B. Gray, Hadland Davis, F. H. Banner, J. F., Thomas Hunter, (Mrs.) Winifred Hibberd, J. W. Firth,
... Photographed by Chris Ware Tar Pits of Rancho La Brea A Break in the Stony Silence Photographed by ...
1946 - Gale Group | Picture Post
Anna R. Holden, Diane M. Erwin, Katherine N. Schick, Joyce Gross,
... from the significant late Pleistocene locality of Rancho La Brea, mostly within the range of approximately 30,000 ... the late Pleistocene ecosystem in and around Rancho La Brea. Cynipine host specificity both verifies, as well as ... proportionally low record of plants recovered at Rancho La Brea in comparison to records of mammals, birds, and ... restrictions, some presently a distance from the Rancho La Brea Tar Pits, existed in the vicinity of this ...
Tópico(s): Plant Parasitism and Resistance
2015 - Cambridge University Press | Quaternary Research
Nicholas Watt Chief Ireland Correspondent, Phil Yates, Tunku Varadarajan, Jon Ashworth, S. J. Davies, Paul Heiney, Ian Curteis, Andrew Pierce, Alexandra Frean, Zahid Hussain, Alliance Leicester, Grace Bradberry, Rob Hughes, Rose Wild, Simon Barnes, Jane MacQuitty, Max Glaskin, John Diamond, Timothy Kirkhope (Under-Secretary of State), Giles Gordon, Gavin Lumsden, Rhona Cameron, John Quayle, D. R. Myddelton, Philip Howard, Susan Bell, Carol Midgley, Anna McGarrigle, S. Thomson, Jeremy Kingston, Joanna Bale, James Bone, Norman De Mesquita, Joyce Blake, Hilary McGowan (Museum and heritage consultant), Nick Nuttall, Environment Correspondent, Simon Wilde, Roger Maynard, Tony Patrick, Christine Buckley Industrial Correspondent, Kate Hatfield, Geoff Brown, Barry May, Giles Worsley, Giles Coren, Joe Joseph, Donald Neale, Alex Wijeratne, Julian Desborough, Karl Johnston, Robert Sheehan, Serge Lourie, Helen Stevenson, Peter Ball, Ruth Gledhill, Debra Craine, John O'leary, Education Editor, Tom Coughtrie, Louise Taylor, Rachel Kelly, Ross Dunn, Ruth Gledhill Religion Correspondent, Libby Purves, Peter Waymark, Ian Morton, Stephen Farrell, Robin Young, Alan Hamilton, Peter Millar, Rodney Milnes, Christine Tomkins (Professional services director), George Perry, Michael Clark, Eve-Ann Prentice, Richard Read, Janet Bush, Frances Bissell, Barry Pilton, Peter A. J. Parr-Davies, David Jessel, Adrian Hamilton, Peter Barnard, Philip Bassett, Industrial Editor, N. R. MacNicol, Derwent May, Kate Muir, M. G. Crane, Russell Kempson, Mary Gold, Daniel McGrory, Anthony Lewis, Stephen Anderton, Paul Durman, John Woodcock, Michael Theodoulou, Sydney Friskin, Alison Baverstock, F. Robinson, Nicholas Harling, Lin Jenkins, Julian Williams, G. L. Leigh, Peter A. Rushforth, Christina Koning, Peter GRAYSON(Honorary Treasurer), Raymond Keene, Vaughan Freeman, Jonathan Prynn, David Robinson, Peter Davalle, Alan Lee, Cricket Correspondent, John Russell Taylor, Eric Jacobs, Joan Holroyd, P. H. S, Sophie Chamier, James Allcock, Richard Evans, Tim Binyon, Caroline Merrell, Peter Wilcockson, Damian Whitworth, Erica Wagner, Roger Boyes, Sarah Cunningham, Marcel Berlins, Stephanie Billen, H. Maden, David Selbourne, Julian Muscat, Anne Ashworth, Joanna Pitman, Dominic Kennedy, Sara McConnell, Hugh Pitt, Gabriella Gamini South America Correspondent, Alan Copps, Chris Parker, Jason Nissé, Kathryn Knight, Adrian Mourby, Tracey Bonham, Christopher Hawtree, Tim Wapshott, Russell Jenkins, Helen Mound, Jane Owen, Anthony Loyd, Peter Riddell, James Craig, Ian Brodie, Tony Dawe, Richard Beeston, Robert De Niro, Graham Searjeant, John Naish, Simon Jenkins, Hattie Ellis, David Sinclair, Jason Cowley, Mark Henderson, Michael Horsnell, Benedict Nightingale, Jonathan Meades, Marianne Curphey, David Powell, Elizabeth Buchan, Richard Morrison, Arthur Leathley, David Maddock, Mark Fuller, Matthew Bond, Tony Kelly, Christian Dymond, Penny Perrick, Rev Barry Overend, Walter Ellis, David Hands, Rugby Correspondent, Alec Parrett, Christopher Irvine, Christine Buckley, Industrial Correspondent, Marianne Curphey Personal Finance Deputy Editor,
... an album very soon. Is there anything this La star can't do, asks Dominic Lutyens? The big brea Money Mate Online Mind-blowing Inventions Family Emilia ...
1997 - Gale Group | TDA
Brianna K. McHorse, John D. Orcutt, Edward Davis,
The late Pleistocene asphalt seeps of Rancho La Brea are well-known for their impressive assemblage of carnivorans, which make up the vast majority of the preserved fauna. Of particular interest is ... whether the relative carnivoran species abundances in Rancho La Brea differ significantly from those in California or North ... numbers of identified specimens (NISP) from the Rancho La Brea fauna to regional and continental faunal data compiled ... results confirm that the carnivoran fauna in Rancho La Brea is unique, with preservation patterns generally supporting the ...
Tópico(s): Ecology and biodiversity studies
2012 - Elsevier BV | Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
David Wade, Teresa Poole, Frances Gibb, Legal Affairs Correspondent, Lucy Hodges, Education Correspondent, Peter Evans Home Affairs Correspondent, Alexandra Shulman, Andrew Billen, Martin Baker, Susan Fieldman, Allan Massle, Christopher Warman, Property Correspondent, Mark Girouard, Alan Gibson, Frank Johnson, Executive Editor Kenneth Fleet, Jane MacQuitty, Simon Barnes, B. John Maxwell, Raymond Daley, Ronald Faux, Terry Farrell, Cliff Feltham, A. L. Freedman, A. Beaumont-Dark, Philip Howard, HRH the Prince of Wales, Michael Binyon, Christopher Wilson, Mandarin (Michael Phillips), Jeremy Flint, Stuart Jones Football Correspondent, Mario Modiano, Michael McCarthy, Beryl Downing, Vivien Goldsmith, Francesca Greenoak, Keith Ward, Bryan Stiles, Allan Massie, A. J. Richards, Janice Allen, Jim McCue, Lawrence Lever, Peter Waymark, Brian Henderson, Ray Kennedy, Alan Hamilton, Tim Jones and Richard Wigg, David Smith Economics Correspondent, Jeremy Warner, Business Correspondent, Michael Clark, Jenny MacArthur, Chris Watts, Frank Newby, Diana Geddes, Rupert Pennant-Rea, Michael Berry, Peter Nicholas, Peter Davalle and Elizabeth Larard, John Percival, James Stirling, Rex Bellamy, Tennis Correspondent, Charles Knevitt Architecture Correspondent, John Hatt, John Hennessy, J. A. Cunningham, Alex McWhirter, MB, Robin Maxwell-Hyslop, Paul Martin, Margaret Rowley, David Miller, Philip Webster, Chief Political Correspondent, Tony Samstag, Nicholas Wood Political Reporter, Marius Goring, Raymond Keene, Theo Hetherington, Zoriana Pysariwsky, Monica Furlong, Mark T. Elvins, Geraldine Norman Sale Room Correspondent, Craig Seton, Richard Owen, Irving Wardle, Sally Tomlinson, Roger Boyes, Gill Lusk, Robert Fisk, Middle East Correspondent, Pat Butcher, Athletics Correspondent, Dennis Lennon, Andrew Sinclair, Christopher Walker, Geraldine Norman, George Hill, Mel Webb, Clive White, Michael Hornsby, Michael Seely, Mitchell Platts Southampton, JA, Stephen Pettitt, John Woodcock, Cricket Correspondent, Nicholas Shakespeare, John Young Agriculture Correspondent, Jonathan Meades, Bailey Morris, Richard Lander, Graham Ashworth, Shona Crawford Poole, Judy Froshaug, Maggie Drummond, Jan Raath, Michael Coleman, Ann Dummett, Director, Colin McQuillan, Brian Friedman, Richard Wigg,
... Trooping A simple dish that's something special La belle France on a bike ... Jardin Le Brea Walking in Europe Motoring Holidays in France Atahotels ...
1986 - Gale Group | TDA
Robert S. Feranec, Elizabeth A. Hadly, Adina Paytan,
... are assembled. The Late Pleistocene deposits at Rancho La Brea are exceptionally diverse in large mammalian carnivores and ... than did horses implying migration away from Rancho La Brea. Bison appear to incorporate more C4 plants into ... which corresponds to previous studies suggesting that Rancho La Brea, primarily surrounded by C3 plants, was used by ... resource use among bison and horse at Rancho La Brea highlights the utility of isotopic techniques for understanding ...
Tópico(s): Evolution and Paleontology Studies
2008 - Elsevier BV | Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
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... Secret, Farmer's Wife Buys Cornish Landmark Carn Brea To Be Cleaned Up, Lambeth Report Welcomed Dr. ... Tenants For Palais-Royal M. Barrault To Revive LA Vie Parisienne, Thirty Pieces Of Silver War's ...
1958 - Gale Group | TDA
F. Robin O’Keefe, Wendy J. Binder, Stephen R. Frost, Rudyard W. Sadlier, Blaire Van Valkenburgh,
The tar pits of Rancho La Brea are a unique window onto the biology and ecology of the terminal Pleistocene in southern California.In this study we capitalize on recent advances in understanding of La Brea tar pit chronology to perform the first morphometric ... is shown to differ significantly among pits at La Brea, with the strongest single observation being reduction in ... this hypothesis requires better accuracy and precision in La Brea carbon data, a program that is within the ...
Tópico(s): Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
2014 - | Palaeontologia Electronica
Larisa R.G. DeSantis, Blaine W. Schubert, Jessica R. Scott, Peter S. Ungar,
... Previous work suggests that times were difficult at La Brea (California) during the late Pleistocene, as nearly all ... clarify the dietary niches of extinct carnivorans from La Brea. Specifically, we test the hypothesis that times were tough at La Brea with carnivorous taxa utilizing more of the carcasses. ... not necessarily more complete during the Pleistocene at La Brea; thus, times may not have been “tougher” than ...
Tópico(s): Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
2012 - Public Library of Science | PLoS ONE
Benjamin T. Fuller, Simon Fahrni, John Harris, Aisling B. Farrell, Joan Brenner Coltrain, Laci Gerhart, Joy Ward, R. E. Taylor, John Southon,
... stored in the George C. Page Museum of La Brea Discoveries (Los Angeles, California) is presented. This simple ... from 38 land mammals found at the Rancho La Brea site are presented. Finally, while this protocol was ... to extract collagen from samples at the Rancho La Brea site, it is likely that it can be ...
Tópico(s): Isotope Analysis in Ecology
2014 - Elsevier BV | Quaternary Geochronology
The tourism industry in the rural community of La Brea in Trinidad and Tobago has primarily focused on ... factors for tourism cluster development are absent in La Brea. Thus, it is evident that clustering is not ... that destination development in rural communities such as La Brea should focus on developing local assets and building ...
Tópico(s): Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
2016 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Destination Marketing & Management
Anna R. Holden, John Harris, Robert M. Timm,
The La Brea Tar Pits, the world's richest and most important Late Pleistocene fossil locality, offers unsurpassed insights into ... California's past environments. Recent studies at Rancho La Brea document that insects serve as sensitive and valuable ... presence of carcass-exploiting insects in the Rancho La Brea biota provides insight into the taphonomy of the ...
Tópico(s): Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research
2013 - Public Library of Science | PLoS ONE
Mark A. S. McMenamin, David J. Blunt, Keith A. Kvenvolden, Scott E. Miller, Leslie F. Marcus, R. Pardi,
... that amino acids in bones from the Rancho La Brea asphalt deposit, Los Angeles, California are better preserved ... asphalt. Amino acids were recovered from 10 Rancho La Brea bone samples which range in age from less ... known stratigraphic and chronologic records of the Rancho La Brea deposits.
Tópico(s): Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
1982 - Cambridge University Press | Quaternary Research
Adam Hartstone‐Rose, Ryan C. Long, Aisling B. Farrell, Christopher A. Shaw,
Abstract The Rancho La Brea collections at the George C. Page Museum in Los Angeles, California, contain the largest single inventory of Smilodon fatalis ... recovered from historical and recent excavations at Rancho La Brea. In this study, we identify these specimens to ... leo closely resemble those of the large Rancho La Brea clavicle morph—which presumably belongs to P. atrox — ...
Tópico(s): Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research
2012 - Wiley | Journal of Morphology
Davis Jones, Larisa R.G. DeSantis,
The La Brea Tar Pits are a highly fossiliferous late Pleistocene locality, with over 230 vertebrate species, and the potential ... behavior of the three most abundant ungulates at La Brea. We examined Bison antiquus, Camelops hesternus, and Equus ... suggest that the dietary ecology of the dominant La Brea herbivores was more nuanced than previously thought, shifting ...
Tópico(s): Evolution and Paleontology Studies
2016 - Elsevier BV | Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
The La Brea-Parinas oil field occupies 643 square miles on a narrow strip of land between the Amotape Mountains ... in drilling for oil. The first well on La Brea-Parinas was drilled in 1862. This property, including ... flank of a northward-trending spur from the La Brea-Negritos uplift, a major east-west high. It ...
Tópico(s): Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods
1953 - American Association of Petroleum Geologists | AAPG Bulletin
... depósitos asfálticos del pleistoceno tardío de Rancho La Brea, California. La nueva especie es asignada al género sudamericano Belonopterus. ...
Tópico(s): Rangeland and Wildlife Management
2002 - Oxford University Press | Ornithological Applications
Alexander R. Doberenz, Philip Matter,
... in the residues of modern and Pleistocene Rancho La Brea bones. This concentration is also evident, though less ... other Pleistocene bones examined. 4. 4. Only Rancho La Brea bones approach modern bone in nitrogen content, all ... 005%. 5. 5. Comparison of data from Rancho La Brea samples with that from other Pleistocene bones demonstrates ...
Tópico(s): Dental Radiography and Imaging
1965 - Pergamon Press | Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology
Julie A. Meachen-Samuels, Wendy J. Binder,
... well-known from the asphalt deposits at Rancho La Brea. However, few studies have quantified this dimorphism. Along ... examine sexual dimorphism in dentaries from the Rancho La Brea tar pits using extant Panthera leo as a guide. Although growth rate in large carnivores declines after a certain age, it has been demonstrated to continue well beyond adulthood, therefore age must also be incorporated into a measure of sexual dimorphism in large carnivores. Prior studies demonstrated that tooth wear can be an inaccurate measure of age in Rancho La Brean carnivores, as it is affected by both ...
Tópico(s): Ecology and biodiversity studies
2009 - Wiley | Journal of Zoology
Abstract Asphalt-impregnated sediments at Rancho La Brea (Los Angeles County) and McKittrick (Kern County) in California provide a rich Quaternary insect record. Ages of various sites at Rancho La Brea range from more than 40,000 14 C yr B.P. to modern. McKittrick insects studied by W. D. Pierce are not ...
Tópico(s): Fossil Insects in Amber
1983 - Cambridge University Press | Quaternary Research
New fossil material has been obtained from La Brea, Peru. Included in this material are remains of a large wolflike canid which could not be referred to any living or fossil South ... canine genus. Comparison with fossil canids from Rancho La Brea, Calif., shows that it closely resembles Canis (Aenocyon) ...
Tópico(s): Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
1959 - American Association for the Advancement of Science | Science
Wendy J. Binder, Elicia N. Thompson, Blaire Van Valkenburgh,
... Canis dirus preserved in the late Pleistocene Rancho La Brea tar seep deposits display a remarkably high incidence ... in C. dirus between two localities at Rancho La Brea, Pit 13 (about 15 ka) and Pit 61/ ...
Tópico(s): Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
2002 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
... apparently unfinished study of the still poorly described La Brea skull was written in 1914. Measurements by Kroeber ... provides data on a recent radiocarbon date at La Brea and explains that Kroeber's three subtypes were ...
Tópico(s): Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond
1962 - Cambridge University Press | American Antiquity
Antonia E. Tejada-Flores, Christopher A. Shaw,
... series of Smilodon skulls and mandibles from Rancho La Brea is divided into ontogenetic stages based on tooth- ... specimens with erupting deciduous dentitions indicates that Rancho La Brea was not preferred for denning by Smilodon.
Tópico(s): Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
1984 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
Donald R. Prothero, Valerie J. Syverson, Kristina R. Raymond, Meena A. Madan, Sarah Molina, Ashley Fragomeni, S. B. Desantis, Anastasiya Sutyagina, Gina L. Gage,
... horses, camels, bison, and ground sloths) from Rancho La Brea tar pits in Los Angeles, California, which preserves ... data show that birds and mammals at Rancho La Brea show complete stasis and were unresponsive to the ...
Tópico(s): Evolution and Paleontology Studies
2012 - Elsevier BV | Quaternary Science Reviews
Wendy J. Binder, Blaire Van Valkenburgh,
... The carnivores preserved in the late Pleistocene Rancho La Brea tar seep deposits display a remarkably high incidence ... study, we extend this work to the Rancho La Brea sabertooth cat, Smilodon fatalis, a hypercarnivore with more ...
Tópico(s): Evolution and Paleontology Studies
2010 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
Lillian M. Spencer, Blaire Van Valkenburgh, John Harris,
The asphalt deposits of Rancho La Brea are well known for preserving a prolific and diverse Late Pleistocene fauna.However, little taphonomic research has been done on these ... The predominance of carnivore specimens in the Rancho La Brea deposits has long been explained by a scenario ...
Tópico(s): Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
2003 - Cambridge University Press | Paleobiology