George A. Howard

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First Published Images of the New World

"The Goodliest Soile Under the Cope of Heaven"

Some of the birds in the above engraving are now extinct Carolina Parakeets.

Click here for DeBry's engravings of earliest North Carolina

Please link to another I site I maintain for North Carolina's only cartography society:

. R. B. Firestone, A. West, J. P. Kennett, L. Becker, T. E. Bunch, Z. S. Revay, P. H. Schultz, T. Belgya, D. J. Kennett, J. M. Erlandson, O. J. Dickenson, A. C. Goodyear, R. S. Harris, G. A. Howard, J. B. Kloosterman, P. Lechler, P. A. Mayewski, J. Montgomery, R. Poreda, T. Darrah, S. S. Que Hee, A. R. Smith, A. Stich, W. Topping, J. H. Wittke, W. S. Wolbach

Evidence for an extraterrestrial impact 12,900 years ago that contributed to the megafaunal extinctions and the Younger Dryas cooling

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Oct 09, 2007; 104: 16016-16021. (In "Geophysics") [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]