First peoples in a new world : colonizing ice age America /

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"More than 12,000 years ago, in one of the greatest triumphs of prehistory, humans colonized North America, a continent that was then truly a new world. Just when and how they did so has been one of the most perplexing and controversial questions in archaeology. This dazzling, cutting-edge synt...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Meltzer, David J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2009.
Temas:
Paleo-Indians > North America.
Glacial epoch > North America.
Peuples autochtones du paléolithique > Amérique du Nord.
Époque glaciaire > Amérique du Nord.
HISTORY > Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
HISTORY > North America.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Physical.
Antiquities
Glacial epoch
Paleo-Indians
North America > Antiquities.
Amérique du Nord > Antiquités.
North America
Glacial epoch > North America
North America > Antiquities
Paleo-Indians > North America
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Overture
  • On dates and dating
  • 2. Landscape of colonization: glaciers, climates, and environments of Ice Age North America
  • Younger Dryas: it came from outer space?
  • 3. From Paleoliths to Paleoindians
  • Mammoth fraud in science
  • 4. Pre-Clovis controversy and its resolution
  • Visit to Monte Verde
  • 5. Non-archaeological answers to archaeological questions
  • Then there was Kennewick
  • 6. American origins: the search for consensus
  • Looking for Clovis in all the wrong places
  • 7. What do you do when no one's been there before?
  • 8. Clovis adaptations and Pleistocene extinctions
  • Is overkill dead?
  • 9. Settling in: late Paleoindians and the waning Ice Age
  • Back to Folsom
  • 10. When past and present collide
  • Further reading
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index.

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