Ice Age Bay Area

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Imagine a vast grassy plain covered with herds of elephants, bison and camels stretching as far as the eye can see. Lions, tigers, wolves and later, humans, hunt the herds on their summer migration. Africa? No, the Bay Area. During the close of the last Ice Age. Take a trip back 20,000 years, to a time when San Francisco Bay was just a riverbed and local wildlife looked a whole lot different.

Tags: amazon river dolphin, Breck Parkman, Doug Long, Farallon Plain, ice age, Jenner, kqed, Mammoth Rubbing Rocks, pbs, Pleistocene, QUEST, shortfaced bear

Additional Links

• East Bay Regional Park District
• Berkeley Natural History Museum
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  Read more of QUEST TV Producer Chris Bauer's blog post on the KQED QUEST Community Science Blog.">Producer's Notes: Ice Age Bay Area
• Mammoth Rubbing Rocks at CA State Parks
• From the Blog: Mammoth Resurrection
• Oakland Museum Mastodon Project
• Bay Nature Magazine: Native Megafauna Resources
• Geological Outings Around the Bay: Shell Beach

 

Educator Guides

• Were Vernal Pools Born of Abandoned Mammoth Wallows?,Rancholabrean Rubbing Rocks,Ice Age Bay Area Educator Guide