| Description |
xviii, 446 pages 16 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 27 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [345]-420) and index. |
| Contents |
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Overture -- On dates and dating -- 2. The landscape of colonization : glaciers, climates, and environments of Ice Age North America -- The Younger Dryas : it came from outer space? -- 3. From Paleoliths to Paleoindians -- A mammoth fraud in science -- 4. The pre-Clovis controversy and its resolution -- A visit to Monte Verde -- 5. Non-archaeological answers to archaeological questions -- And 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. |
| Subject |
Paleo-Indians -- North America.
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Glacial epoch -- North America.
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North America -- Antiquities.
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| ISBN |
9780520250529 cloth alkaline paper |
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0520250524 cloth alkaline paper |
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