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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 synthesis, written for a wide audience by an archaeologist who has long been at the c...more
Hardcover, 446 pages
Published
April 13th 2009
by University of California Press
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OK, I know it's difficult to plan for a trip like this. Everyone's running around like a reindeer with its head cut off. Let's just make sure I'm not overreacting. Going down the line, what did we bring? Half a squirrel. Piece of bark. Recently stomped baby bird. Handful of seeds. Handful of poisonous berries. Nice gathering there, Peela.
Excellent if a bit ponderous and dull on every page. Amazing complete thinking if consistently telegraphed and anti-climatic. Why are anthropologists so much better at writing public consumption than other scientists? Or are they still scientists?
A very thorough presentation of what we know so far about how, when and possibly why human beings first came across from Siberia to North America thousands of years ago, and what kind of landscape they ventured into.
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