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Clovis : on the edge of a new understanding /

New research and the discovery of multiple archaeological sites predating the established age of Clovis (13,000 years ago) provide evidence that the Americas were first colonized at least one thousand to two thousand years before Clovis. These revelations indicate to researchers that the peopling of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Smallwood, Ashley M. (Editor ), Jennings, Thomas A. (Thomas Andrew), 1979- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: College Station, Texas : Texas A & M University Press, 2015.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Peopling of the Americas Publications.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents 2; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; Part 1; 2. The Clovis-Era Radiocarbon Plateau; 3. Reevaluating the Duration of Clovis: The Problem of Non- Representative Radiocarbon; Part 2; 4. Fluted Point Studies in the Far West; 5. Clovis in Idaho: An Update on its Distribution, Technology, and Chronology; 6. Clovis-Era Point Production in the Midcontinent; 7. Flaked Stone Tools of Pleistocene Colonizers: Overshot Flaking at the Red Wing Site, Ontario.
  • 8. Clovis Bipolar Lithic Reduction at Paleo Crossing, Ohio: A Reinterpretation Based on the Examination of Experimental Replications9. A Regional Perspective on Clovis Blades and Caching Behavior; 10. Defining the Normative Range of Clovis Fluted Point Shape Using Geographic Model of Geometric Morphometric Variation; Part 3; 11. The Densest Concentration on the Earth? Quantifying Human-Mammoth Associations in the San Pedro Basin, Southeastern Arizona, USA; 12. Clovis Landscapes in the Greater Southwest of North America; 13. Sonoran Clovis Groups: Lithic Technological Organization and Land Use.
  • 14. From Mammoth to Bison: Changing Clovis Prey Availability at the End of the Pleistocene15. Clovis Adaptations in the Great Plains; 16. Early Paleoindian Subsistence Strategies in Eastern North America: A Continuation of the Clovis Tradition? Or Evidence of Regional Adaptations?; 17. North Carolina Clovis; Part 4; 18. Clovis Culture Update; Contributors; Index.