First Peoples in a New World
First Peoples in a New World
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Over 15,000 years ago, a band of hunter-gatherers became the first people to set foot in the Americas. They soon found themselves in a world rich in plants and animals, but also a world still shivering itself out of the coldest depths of the Ice Age. The movement of those first Americans was one of the greatest journeys undertaken by ancient peoples. In this book, David Meltzer explores the world of Ice Age Americans, highlighting genetic, archaeological, and geological evidence that has revolutionized our understanding of their origins, antiquity, and adaptation to climate and environmental change. This fully updated edition integrates the most recent scientific discoveries, including the ancient genome revolution and human evolutionary and population history. Written for a broad audience, the book can serve as the primary text in courses on North American Archaeology, Ice Age Environments, and Human evolution and prehistory.
- The interdisciplinary approach exposes students to a range of disciplines that inform prehistorical study
- Students gain an up-to-date understanding of the field through new material addressing ancient DNA recovery and sequencing
- Engages readers with a wide-ranging yet cohesive narrative from a well-known authority on prehistoric North America
Reviews & endorsements
'The book is an exciting read that offers a lot of information, but always takes the reader along because the author knows how to explain … the book is highly recommended.' Herausgeber, AmerIndian Research
Product details
October 2021Paperback
9781108735476
500 pages
252 × 177 × 28 mm
0.96kg
Available
Table of Contents
- 1. Overture
- 2. Glaciers, climates and environments of Ice Age North America
- 3. The search for Ice Age Americans: the path from Paleoliths to Paleoindians
- 4. Ascertaining archaeological evidence of antiquity
- 5. What language, skeletal anatomy and genetics reveal (or not) of the population history of the Americas
- 6. Who, from where, when and how? The search for consensus
- 7. What do you do when no one's been there before?
- 8. Clovis adaptations and Pleistocene Megafaunal extinctions
- 9. Settling in: late Paleoindians and the waning ice age
- 10. When past and present collide.
