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Ice Age people of North America : environments, origins, and adaptations / edited by Robson Bonnichsen, Karen L. Turnmire.
Penn Museum Library E77.9 .I34 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Paleo-Indians--North America.
- Paleo-Indians.
- Glacial epoch.
- North America.
- Indians of North America--Asian influences.
- Glacial epoch--North America.
- Paleoecology--North America--Pleistocene.
- Paleoecology.
- North America--Antiquities.
- Antiquities.
- Physical Description:
- 536 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Corvallis : Oregon State University Press for the Center for the Study of the First Americans, 1999.
- Summary:
- This volume provides an up-to-date summary of important new discoveries from Northeast Asia and North America that are changing perceptions about the origin of the First Americans. Even though the peopling of the Americas has been the focus of scientific investigations for more than half a century, there is still no definitive evidence that will allow specialists to say when the First Americans initially arrived or who they were. However, this in no way diminishes the significance of the many new contributions being made in the field.
- The nineteen papers collected here provide regional archaeological syntheses and address such topics as ice marginal dynamics, the impact of plant nutrients in glacial margins, and periglacial ecology of large mammals. The concluding chapter discusses conceptual frameworks used to explain the peopling of the Americas.
- Contents:
- Ice Age Environments of Northern Eurasia with Special Reference to the Beringian Margin of Siberia / Mikhail G. Grosswald 27
- Impact of Ice-related Plant Nutrients on Glacial Margin Environments / Mort D. Turner, Edward J. Zeller, Gisela A. Dreschoff, Joanne C. Turner 42
- Periglacial Ecology, Large Mammals, and their Significance to Human Biology / V. Geist 78
- Pleistocene Peoples of Japan and the Peopling of the Americas / Takeru Akazawa 95
- The Colonization of Western Beringia: Technology, Ecology, and Adaptations / Ted Goebel, Sergei B. Slobodin 104
- Late Pleistocene Peopling of Alaska / Thomas D. Hamilton, Ted Goebel 156
- Bluefish Caves and Old Crow Basin: A New Rapport / Jacques Cinq-Mars, Richard E. Morlan 200
- Searching for the Earliest Canadians: Wide Corridors, Narrow Doorways, Small Windows / Michael Clayton Wilson, James A. Burns 213
- Prehistory of the Great Basin/Snake River Plain to About 8,500 Years Ago / Alan L. Bryan, Donald R. Tuohy 249
- The Late Pleistocene Prehistory of the Northwestern Plains, the Adjacent Mountains, and Intermontane Basins / George C. Frison 264
- Paleoindian Archaeology and Late Pleistocene Environments in the Plains and Southwestern United States / Dennis Stanford 281
- The Burnham Site and Pleistocene Human Occupations of the Southern Plains of the United States / Don G. Wyckoff 340
- Pleistocene Peoples of Midcontinental North America / Bradley T. Lepper 362
- Radiocarbon Chronology of Northeastern Paleo-American Sites: Discriminating Natural and Human Burn Features / Robson Bonnichsen, Richard T. Will 395
- No Vestige of a Beginning nor Prospect for an End: Two Decades of Debate on Meadowcroft Rockshelter / J. M. Adovasio, D. Pedler, J. Donahue, R. Stuckenrath 416
- The Early Holocene Occupation of the Southeastern United States: A Geoarchaeological Summary / Albert C. Goodyear 432
- The Inhabitants of Mexico During the Upper Pleistocene / Jose Luis Lorenzo, Lorena Mirambell 482
- Breaking the Impasse on the Peopling of the Americas / Robson Bonnichsen, Alan L. Schneider 497.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0870714589
- OCLC:
- 41231290
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