The first Americans : the Pleistocene colonization of the New World / volume editor: Nina G. Jablonski.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jablonski, Nina G.

Series:

Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences ; no. 27.

Wattis Symposium series in anthropology

Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences ; no. 27

Wattis symposium series in anthropology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Glacial epoch--America--Congresses.

Glacial epoch.

America--Discovery and exploration--Pre-Columbian--Congresses.

America.

Discoveries in geography.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xiv, 331 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 27 cm.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco, CA : California Academy of Sciences : Distributed by the University of California Press, [2002]

Summary:

As modern humans spread around the globe, the Americas represented the final continental frontier. These first colonists were modern in appearance and technology, but who were they and when did they arrive? Traditional answers to these questions have come under increasing scrutiny in the face of new findings from artifacts, skeletal remains, genes, and languages. The peopling of the Americas has become one of archaeology's most compelling and contentious subjects, as these new lines of evidence reveal a more complex solution. In this volume, distinguished scientists from the fields of archaeology, physical anthropology, paleoecology, genetics, and linguistics assess the latest evidence from Siberia to Chile and offer provocative ideas for how, when, and where humans entered the Americas.

Notes:

"The Fourth Wattis Symposium, "The First Americans: The Pleistocene Colonization of the New World," was held on October 2, 1999 at the California Academy of Sciences ... " - Preface.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0940228491

0940228505

OCLC:

49552303