The First Americans: The Pleistocene Colonizations of the New World,9780940228498

The First Americans: The Pleistocene Colonizations of the New World

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ISBN13: 9780940228498
ISBN10: 0940228491
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2002-07-01
Publisher(s): Univ of California Pr
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Summary

Leading scientists examine current archaeological, genetic, linguistic, and ecological evidence that could answer when, how, and where modern people first colonized the Americas.

Table of Contents

Preface xiii
Introduction 1(1)
Changing Perspectives of the First Americans: Insights Gained and Paradigms Lost
1(8)
Nina G. Jablonski
Setting the Stage: Environmental Conditions in Beringia as People Entered the New World
9(18)
Scott A. Elias
What Do You Do When No One's Been There Before? Thoughts on the Exploration and Colonization of New Lands
27(32)
David J. Meltzer
Anatomically Modern Humans, Maritime Voyaging, and the Pleistocene Colonization of the Americas
59(34)
Jon M. Erlandson
Facing the Past: A view of the North American Human Fossil Record
93(30)
D. Gentry Steele
Joseph F. Powell
Teeth, Needles, Dogs, and Siberia: Bioarchaeological Evidence for the Colonization of the New World
123(36)
Christy G. Turner II
The Migrations and Adaptations of the First Americans: Clovis and Pre-Clovis Viewed from South America
159(78)
A. C. Roosevelt
John Douglas
Linda Brown
Plant Food and its Implications for the Peopling of the New World: A view from South America
237(18)
Tom D. Dillehay
Jack Rossen
Ocean Trails and Prairie Paths? Thoughts about Clovis Origins
255(18)
Dennis Stanford
Bruce Bradley
The First American Languages
273(22)
Johanna Nichols
A Mitochondrial Perspective on the Peopling of the New World
295(16)
D. Andrew Merriwether
Index 311

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