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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2012.
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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.