First peoples in a new world : colonizing ice age America / David J. Meltzer.
Meltzer, David J.
2009
E77.9 .M45 2009 (Mapit)
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Title First peoples in a new world : colonizing ice age America / David J. Meltzer.
Author Meltzer, David J.
ISBN 9780520250529 (alk. paper)
0520250524 (alk. paper)
Imprint Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009.
Language English
Description xviii, 446 p. 16 p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 27 cm.
Call Number E77.9 .M45 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification 970.01
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.

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