First peoples in a new world : colonizing ice age America /
"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...
| Основен автор: | Meltzer, David J. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
℗♭2009.
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First peoples in a new world. |
Съдържание:
- 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.