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Across Atlantic ice : the origin of America's Clovis culture /

"Who were the first humans to inhabit North America? According to the now familiar story, mammal hunters entered the continent some 12,000 years ago via a land bridge that spanned the Bering Sea. Distinctive stone tools belonging to the Clovis culture established the presence of these early New...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stanford, Dennis J.
Otros Autores: Bradley, Bruce A., 1948-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2012.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The First Americans?
  • Part 1. Paleolithic peoples
  • 1. Flaked stone technology: A primer
  • 2. Clovis: The first American settlers?
  • 3. Beringia: Out of Asia on foot
  • 4. Challenging the Clovis first model: The missing links
  • 5. The Solutrean: Ice Age innovators
  • Part 2. The Solutrean hypothesis
  • 6. Quantitative culture comparison
  • 7. Qualitative culture comparison
  • 8. The Solutrean maritime adaptation
  • 9. The last glacial maximum: How bad was the weather?
  • 10. Living on the ice edge: Ethnographic analogies
  • Conclusion.